MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by georgeecollins | 2025-12-01 22:05:52+00:00
> You learn lessons over the years and this is one I learned at some point: you want to work in revenue centers, not cost centers.

Best advice I got in school is -- at least early in your career-- work in the main line of business for your company. So if you are in marketing, work for a marketing firm, an accountant, work for an accounting firm.. etc. Video game designer: work for a video game developer.

Later you can have other roles but you make your mark doing the thing that company really depends on.
by user34283 | 2025-12-01 22:06:04+00:00
Same here, but maybe for different reasons.

As an end user, the out of the box experience of getting a blurry window with the wrong content size isn't very useful. And I've never tried to actually configure it properly.

I wonder if it's a decent experience even when configured properly. In that case, why do all the IDEs come with remote development / WSL integrations that involve running the client on the Windows side?
by rogerrogerr | 2025-12-01 22:06:25+00:00
Solid meh from me. Only thing I really don’t like about it is it’s likely to impact the personal rights to fly drones we enjoy today (which are already being chipped away).

Otherwise, they’re probably not very loud or frequent, don’t really present much of a privacy issue vs. what street view already has, and they maybe make the roads a bit safer. Might take some jobs away from delivery van drivers. Nothing seems worth getting overly concerned for.
by bisby | 2025-12-01 22:06:26+00:00
You could argue whether or not it's a "feature", but one of the thing ghostty claims as an advantage is the out of the box configuration.

With no config at all, ghostty looks nicer than my alacritty setup. The rendering is just real nice. I could probably get alacritty to look as nice or nicer, but ghostty just worked this way with no config needed.

So you could consider aesthetics and rendering quality, and simplicity of setup both as features, which people may need/want (or not).
by parliament32 | 2025-12-01 22:06:55+00:00
> I also know that in each and every company I have ever worked for, none of this is going to fly.

My favourite part of climbing the corporate ladder is finally having enough clout to just say "no".

> I have been asking for agendas; I have asked for clarification on what to do to prepare; I have even suggested

Try "I am unable to attend meeting without an agenda. Let me know when one has been posted." in your decline message. Do you sound like a dick? Yes. Does it work? Also yes, unless you weren't actually required in that meeting, in which case it becomes a self-solving problem.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-01 22:07:23+00:00
"Post-training" is too much of a conflation, because there are many post-training methods and each of them has its own quirky failure modes.

That being said? RLHF on user feedback data is model poison.

Users are NOT reliable model evaluators, and user feedback data should be treated with the same level of precaution you would treat radioactive waste.

Professional are not very reliable either, but the users are so much worse.
by MaxLeiter | 2025-12-01 22:07:35+00:00
I think the fact that OpenNext can exist speaks to the opposite

A Next.js project can be deployed to a Docker image very easily [1]. If you want to use a provider that has their own infrastructure setup, then yes you need to do some work (that OpenNext does for you). But that's true of practically any framework deploying to a host that does more than just serve the docker container.

[1]: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/getting-started/deploying
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 22:07:49+00:00
>You think this is the tech job market to leave your job, and then what?

1. take that time to startup that business you've been thinking of doing

2. Coast on the months of savings and years of stock until things get better. Perhaps you even have enough for a soft retirement.

3. try to rapidly interview and hope you have a ship to jump to before the hammer comes down.

4. interview anyway because you know this means a layoff round is coming even if you wanted to move because not enough people quit on their own.

> is this IG looking to cut fat by keeping what they considered the most committed employees

If by "committed" you mean "most compensated", then yes.

>Is it because most of us can admit that it takes the right people to work remotely and that isn’t a majority? That’s more my take.

Sure, maybe. But Meta knows that isn't the reason. They lost the BOTD since 2017 in my eyes.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-12-01 22:07:55+00:00
>What if there were decoy meetings. Useless fake ones where if you accept you get a reminder of the rules.

What could this possibly accomplish? I accept meeting requests not because I have some perverse desire to waste my time (and everyone else's), but because when I fail to show up for meetings (as has happened, quite by accident), I get shit for it. The eastern European folks are constantly setting meetings before 8am, but they can't just set them and leave them there. They'd delete these, put them at another time, but forget to include my name in the list... and then my boss starts giving me hell for why I'm not showing up to them. Yeh, I love getting up at 5:30am just so I can psychically deduce that you're all in an early morning meet.

So now you'd want to spam up my inbox with 15% more meetings, but I have to guess which of these imbecilic invitations are the real ones, and to taunt me if I can't always tell? I'm not the problem here, punishing me can't improve this for anyone.
by fao_ | 2025-12-01 22:08:09+00:00
"gun control laws don't work because the people will get illegal guns from other places"

"deplatforming doesn't work because they will just get a platform elsewhere"

"LLM control laws don't work because the people will get non-controlled LLMs from other places"

All of these sentences are patently untrue; there's been a lot of research on this that show the first two do not hold up to evidential data, and there's no reason why the third is different. ChatGPT removing the version that all the "This AI is my girlfriend!" people loved tangibly reduced the number of people who were experiencing that psychosis. Not everything is prohibition.
by mancerayder | 2025-12-01 22:08:10+00:00
Some of the YIMBY stuff is coming in the form of stricter environment regulations and even union labor rules and high minimum wage. Looking at you, NYC, where building 99 unit buildings and no more is the norm because otherwise the wage becomes $40/hr. It's called 485-x.

There's no escape in the US from the problem. It's either California with weird complicated property tax laws that make no one sell, Texas with unlimited and disgusting urban sprawl, Florida with shoddy construction, or NYC with big headaches tied to strict building incentives for tax breaks.

The answer could be ugly - less regulation, but now you're going red and not blue, which is very much the opposite attitude that many pro urbanization folks tend to be.

I'm not sure, other than I think the issue is that it's not Not Enough Building. It's that we allow investors to buy everything up. In NYC this year, 40 percent of condo transactions were without financing contingency. Explain that one.
by shagie | 2025-12-01 22:08:11+00:00
Could you elaborate on how wages of native French speaking language teachers are being suppressed? Or that nurses in North Dakota are not getting jobs because the hospital is going through the process of hiring a qualified nurse under the H-1B program?

I'm not saying that the teachers or nurses are not underpaid - they should be paid more, but the ability for the organization to pay them more is often constrained by other factors (teacher salaries for public schools, medicare reimbursement rates for hospitals).

Saying "no, we shouldn't hire them" doesn't mean that a qualified American teacher will show up or new nurses will go to Fargo to get a job. Rather, foreign language programs in schools will be discontinued and hospitals in rural areas will close (being unable to meet the required nurse to patient ratios).

There are problems with the system. People on HN often forget that there are a lot of other professions outside of technology that make use of the H-1B when there is a genuine need.

Unfortunately technology - and especially technology consultancies - have flooded the application process for the H-1B visas to the point where H-1B has become synonymous with Indian programmer working at a WITCH company.

> Public Law 114–113, part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, imposed a fee of $4,000 on H-1B petitions [edit: for H-1B dependent employers] and $4,500 on L-1A and L-1B petitions. The additional H-1B fees would apply to all petitions postmarked on or after December 18, 2015, and until September 30, 2025.

This apparently has expired. The proclamation "Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers" is of dubious footing.

You know what would have been good with the budget bill (the previous Consolidated Appropriations Act was a budget bill signed by Obama)? Quadrupling the application fee for H-1B dependent employers and hiring auditors to make sure that the applicants are properly qualified, that there is a position open (not just a position on the bench at a consultancy) for the applicant to fill, that the position to be filled was attempted to be filled by a and that the employer is making full use of their existing employees (e.g. no one on the bench).

This is something that is (was) there and can be regulated and audited and catch the problematic employers - not French teachers and nurses.
by Arainach | 2025-12-01 22:09:23+00:00
Exempt temporarily. Very temporarily.

This is a standard boiling the frog playbook:

* No more remote hires

* Mandate non-remote employees into office (Instagram is here)

* Mandate remote employees who live within X miles of office return to office (significant chunks of Alphabet, etc. are here)

etc. - this will get ramped up and very soon
by TZubiri | 2025-12-01 22:09:36+00:00
So it seems that the article is factually incorrect and is quite obtuse in interpreting that the lawmakers are idiots.

The bill demands that porn distributors OR VPN providers that deliver content to Wisconsin residents, must block traffic from virtual private networks.

"In short, if my child uses a VPN to circumvent the age verification rules or some other safeguard to access the obscene materials, I can sue any site that operates in or employs people in Wisconsin for damages in a civil lawsuit for punitive damages."

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but I believe that any company that operates outside of the State but serves residents of the Wisconsin state would still be in violation and the State of Wisconsin and its laws would still have jurisdiction. If your website serves users from Wisconsin, it must abide by Wisconsin laws and both Wisconsin jurisdiction and venue is proper, absent any other agreement (which would be null anyways if the Wisconsin resident is a minor).

I think it's more that the author of this article is being obtuse AND "has no idea" about law.
by sosodev | 2025-12-01 22:11:03+00:00
If the performance is comparable to Qwen3 in practice that's quite impressive.

Half the dataset being synthetic is interesting. I wonder what that actually means. They say that Datology needed 2048 H100s to generate the synthetic data. Does that mean they were generating data using other open weight LLMs? Seems like that would undermine the integrity of a "US based" dataset.
by tianxin_lily | 2025-12-01 22:11:36+00:00
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by bartread | 2025-12-01 22:11:55+00:00
Interesting that "Small - Brainstorming" is marked as a bad meeting flavour.

I mean, for starters, I'm not the biggest fan of brainstorming anyway: I tend to be more creative on my own, and then we can come together to compare/refine ideas. A lot of people I've worked with are like this.

But, to me at any rate, if you absolutely must brainstorm then "Medium - Brainstorming" and "Large - Brainstorming" seem like way worse flavours than "Small - Brainstorming". I and too many other people I know tend to withdraw rather than contribute when any kind of meeting gets too large, and especially if it's a brainstorming meeting.

Right now I am struggling to think of anything worse.

Otherwise, agree with everything else in the presentation, and practice most of it as well.
by observationist | 2025-12-01 22:12:03+00:00
Content of sites should be 1000% irrelevant wrt a state or municipality blocking it. It's like phone numbers- they don't get a say in what gets transmitted, period, full stop, and any access of the content requires a well worn and battle tested legal process. This sort of arbitrary, whiny, "we dont like it so we're going to pretend things like freedom of communication and association don't exist" and other perspectives don't survive the technical reality, let alone the principled legal framework.

It's 100% legal for me to read off the zeroes and ones of a file I own that exists on my computer over the phone talking to anyone I want. Even if it's horribly offensive. Even if it's hateful, or makes people feel bad. I can even mock the deceased mothers of congress people, and there's nothing they can (or should) do about it.

Internet regulation should begin and end there. If you're wiretapping, getting a warrant, etc, then there has to be justification and law in support of your actions, otherwise, the communication should not even exist as a concept in your mind, at the governmental level. They should consider any and all network traffic to be completely meaningless, illusory babble from which no conclusions can be drawn, absent underlying due process.

Somehow we've gotten to a state where it's now being debated as to not only who you are allowed to connect to, but under what conditions, and what may be communicated once the network is connected. That sort of default surveillance and censorship is 100% never used for the good of a society, historically 100% of the time used to the detriment of society, and it's only in those cases where substantial protections of due process exist and are robustly followed where any sort of surveillance and censorship actually does any good.

These actions are power grabs. Any attempts to extend and expand state surveillance and control over communications should be vehemently condemned, up to and including running the authors out of any community they're in if they don't drop it.
by brokenmachine | 2025-12-01 22:12:14+00:00
>"They're in charge, surely they must know what they're doing! They wouldn't lie to us!

Literally nobody thinks that.

Unfortunately most people don't have the time or energy to fight every emerging attack on freedom.

Everything is going to plan for the billionaire class.

Eventually everything will burn, only time will tell if it will be from global warming or food riots.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-12-01 22:12:30+00:00
A C programming course that I casually enrolled on as an undergrad in 1989. It meant that I had a head-start in learning C++ (cfront) the following year, just as it was becoming the new hotness. Which in turn got me my first two dev jobs and kept me employed for the next decade as a C/C++/Unix dev.

So, you never really know how its going to turn out.

Course materials? I devoured Michael Waite's Quick C Prpgramming book (the one with the pink and yellow cover) in a day, and then the next day I read it all again. Did the same with Stan Lippmann's C++ book the following year, and carried the at&t cfront manual around in my backpack for ages.

I've been working pretty much exclusively in .net for the last twenty years, but C remains my favourite language - even if I almost never write any code in it nowadays.
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by layer8 | 2025-12-01 22:12:43+00:00
“Dark pattern” can apply to situations where the behavior is deceptive for the user, regardless of whether the deception itself is intentional, as long as the overall effect is intentional, or is at least tolerated despite being avoidable. The point, and the justified criticism, is that users are being deceived about the merit of their ideas, convictions, and qualities in a way that appears sytemic, even though the LLM in principle does know better.
by simoncion | 2025-12-01 22:12:44+00:00
Yep. I've seen quite a few free-to-play gacha games of the "Dress up your pretty princess in cool clothes and do cute activities in a relaxing, no-stress world." variety that have serious anticheat. There's no leaderboard, no multiplayer, it's totally singleplayer.

Why the serious anticheat? To try to prevent you from cheating your way to possession of all the cool clothes for your pretty princess.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-01 22:12:44+00:00
Not really.

Human flaws permeate the entire body of a corporation. The scale may average out some of it, but humans are not just randomly flawed - they're also systematically flawed on the top of it, and averaging does little to counter that.

And the "top end" of the corporation doesn't have enough averaging to mitigate even the random flaws. If someone in the C-suite makes the dumbest decisions ever, the entire system may suffer immense damage before it corrects - if it ever does.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-01 22:12:51+00:00
> There were many counter revolutionaries among the leadership

Well, Stalin was, by far, the biggest counter-revolutionary in the Politburo.

> Stalin was like "ah fuck we're hella compromised."

There's no evidence that anything significant was compromised at that point, and clear evidence that Stalin was in fact medically paranoid.

> Many revolutions fail in this step and often end up facing a CIA backed coup. The USSR was under constant siege and attempted infiltration since inception.

Can we please not recycle 90-years old soviet propaganda? The Moscow trial being irrational self-harm was acknowledged by the USSR leadership as early as the fifties…
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-12-01 22:13:03+00:00
The science on masks and vaccines was not "bad."

Masks turned out to be highly effective if people actually bothered to wear them. Many studies found conflicting results in real-world use, because many people don't wear masks consistently. The correct response to that is to encourage people to wear masks correctly and consistently, not to claim that masks don't work.

The vaccines were initially highly effective against infection and transmission. That was a correct result of the initial studies. What the initial studies could not possibly capture was that the vaccine would become less effective over time at completely stopping infection (because of viral mutation and because antibody titers decrease over time), though they maintained their very high effectiveness at stopping people from getting seriously ill and dying.

> And the insane vaccine mandate for children (not federal, but some states in order to attend school) was absolutely bad science.

It's not insane at all. Schools are some of the most intense centers of viral spread in just about any community. It has long been known that reducing spread at schools is one of the most important measures in controlling a pandemic. The mRNA vaccines have a very good safety profile - the risk of side-effects is tiny. The most serious side-effect of the mRNA vaccines, myocarditis, is actually caused at a higher rate (and with greater severity) by Covid itself.

The scientific community did some amazing work during the pandemic. They almost instantly developed a vaccine that is extremely effective at preventing you from dying of Covid and which has a vanishingly small rate of serious side-effects. That would have been seen as a miracle a few decades ago.

What ruined the response to the pandemic was the politics of it, not the science. One aspect of that was the insane politicization of unalloyed goods like vaccination and masking. The paradox and tragedy of the United States is that despite having the finest scientific community in the world, most of the population is scientifically illiterate and open to manipulation and fear-mongering.
by asdff | 2025-12-01 22:13:06+00:00
Probably half my immediate neighbors get an amazon delivery a day. The truck makes sometimes two or three stops throughout the day and is there for like 15-20 minutes running packages. The thought of that replaced with drone traffic is crazy. It would be like dozens of landings and overflights per hour. It is already bad enough when the realtors fly their drones overhead. I can't imagine the birds and bees aren't getting stressed out if it's managing to piss me off.
by KaiserPro | 2025-12-01 22:13:13+00:00
Another winning call from Mosseri

After shitcanning the london office because he wanted to move back home(800 people gone) hes now doing the RTO, because as we know all the cool kids love working in the office.

The problem with instagram is not where people are working, its the culture of piss poor direction setting and no user experience advocates. Well none that are being listened to.

There are too many grand initiatives, which are poorly run, never really prototyped and just yeeted into years long slog that fuckup repeatedly (shops I'm looking at you)

Then to get a promotion you need to move a metric somehow. That means doing stupid user hostile stuff, like instantly shoving tits in your face.

Don't get me started on the horror that was instagram for kids