skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m genuinely curious why you care if other people, with their own loving families, are too quick to diagnose dysmorphia.

Sure, there can be bad outcomes from overdiagnosis. But also from under diagnosis and from stigma. It seems like a very difficult and challenging thing to get right, so why put energy into second-guessing experts and people directly affected? What good can come from a semi-knowledgeable person with no personal stake forming strong opinions that they’re doing it wrong?

I’m old enough to remember when liberalized attitudes towards homosexuality were blamed for a huge increase in incidence. And it’s been long enough now that it’s pretty obvious that no, there really were that many closeted people suffering in ways small to large.

Not being gay or suffering from body dysmorphia, it’s hard for me to imagine wanting to tell people they’re wrong about their (or their children’s) gender identity.

Sorry if that came across as lecture-y, I honestly meant it as background for curiosity about why you feel the need to have strong opinions.
If you are evaluating how well people code without LLMs you are likely filtering for the wrong people and you are way behind the times.

For most companies, the better strategy would be to explicitly LET them use LLMs and see whether they can accomplish 10X what a coder 3 years ago could accomplish, in the same time. If they accomplish only 1X, that's a bad sign that they haven't learned anything in 3 years about how to work faster with new power tools.

A good analogy of 5 years ago would be forcing candidates to write in assembly instead of whatever higher level language you actually use in your work. Sure, interview for assembly if that's what you use, but 95% of companies don't need to touch assembly language.
I'm saying the sections of the resume don't matter at all. The resume is basically ignored. You either have public code you can point to on Github or you aren't ever hearing from us.
I feel like the DWPD should be given with at least 2 significant digits, and must be based on real world testing to find the amount of writes that 99.9% of the cards can take for the duration of their warranty without failing before warranty ends.
It's relevant to language, since we use the same terms for a lot of different thing.
IMO the interview process should help the employer correctly identify qualified candidates. Respect for the candidates is important but some candidates should absolutely be prepared to jump through hoops.
The interesting bit is not blockchain, but "Every transaction, every dollar spent, would be recorded publicly and securely, creating an immutable record that citizens can trust and scrutinize, which cannot be tampered with."

I'm not sure any government could function with this level of transparency. Just benign stuff like government employee paychecks would be problematic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42916811
The signal to noise at the union of QM and thermodynamics on HN is evidence of regression to the mean.
I'm willing to bet OpenAI and Anthropic are behind this. Their valuations got crushed by DeepSeek and Qwen.
Layoffs are a frequent outcome of product launch failures regardless of overall market movements.

>But you can't measure prominence in an objective way.

Nor can you measure friendships or love or anything else that is inherently subjective yet has a marked effect on your life.
Detroit’s homicide rate as of January is about 4x the national average, 31.9 per 100k vs 7.4 nationally.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/20...
> Downvoters, are you sure you have a rational basis for downvoting this informative post?

Citing relative improvement (30%) instead of absolute improvement (2%) and not explicitly designating it as such.
Honestly, these are the smartest and overall best LLM outputs I've ever seen to date. Loving Deep Research, feels like another level up in the race
Just love lazygit, makes me happy every time I use it, which is every like every 5 minutes. Love how extensible it is with custom actions. Love the recent integration of update-refs. Thank you, happy new job and congrats !
I've seen that kind of thinking by some grads of MIT, Harvard, and Stanford, too. I think it's a minority of them, but not-unusual.

My position is, if you want a lifestyle company (and maybe a self-congratulatory echo chamber), then maybe it's fine to be a "<school> shop". But if you want to hire the best people, and be informed by a d-v-rs-ty of perspectives and experiences, then you really need to not be so insular.
Essentially, yes. Public portfolios come in different flavors though. Most often it's code. But sometimes it's research, a blog, transcripts of talks ripped from YouTube.
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Sorry dude. That's personal information. Privacy laws prevent you from finding that out. That's your privacy rights at work in the way they are intended.
"Pretty neat, but definitely watch out for hallucinations."

We'd never hire someone who just makes stuff up (or at least keep them employed for long). Why are we okay with calling "AI" tools like this anything other than curious research projects?

Can't we just send LLMs back to the drawing board until they have some semblance of reliability?
In addition to the european groups bought by US big tech, and all the European divisions of American-parented big tech firms?

A quick search reveals DeepMind, Skype, SwiftKey, Shazam, Moodstocks for the former. Bit of overlap with the latter, too, as e.g. AlphaFold is from DeepMind after getting bought.

Quick look on the Apple App store also gets me Komoot (Germany), Trade Republic (Germany), Revolut (UK), Babbel (Germany).

Aside from them, ETH Zürich and CERN are doing pretty good work, too, the latter inventing the modern hypertext based web on which you are currently reading this.

Cambridge has some decent digital tech, also has Metalysis and The Welding Institute and was where the double helix structure of DNA were found and where Stephen Hawking chose to work.
> Do people still use those Germanized terms?

In a way? I always found it more sensible to use German words like "Namenwort" instead of "Nomen" to express German grammar, instead of using latin terms. After all Latin is a language that comes from a completely different language family to start with and is not used at all in Germany except when wanting to pretend you're fancy (law, medicine, grammar).
i am writing about this on hacker news, have posted a twitter thread about it and also put up my code on Github. Nothing is being hidden here mate, dont know how much more transparent I can get :)
China's Investment to Challenge Europe's ASML Chip-Making Dominance
I mean this entirely depends on how things are done where you work. I wouldn't think the back-reference is necessary if all projects have their own repo in some central location (and it's trivial to match the binary's name to a repo).
For a fairly casual question I'd see it more like an ice breaker or a way to build some rapport, but it's down to how you ask the question as well. Letting people know in advance (as the parent suggested) rather than dropping it on the fly is a good enough accommodation for people who would be anxious about that.

I find interviews quite tense and I generally dislike having them (on both sides of the table), but throwing in a few disarming questions here and there throughout really takes the edge off. A conversational, or more cerebral, approach like that can suit some people far better than live code tests or quick-fire Q&A.
Perhaps the effort would be more effective as a contribution to the existing XFWM?

On the one hand, you have to figure out how XFWM works. On the other hand, it can be available to all XFCE users in a year or two (depending on how unsynchronized XFCE release and distro releases are).
> Gemini has had this for a month or two,

Would have loved to try it when they released it, but I'm apparently in the wrong country. I think it's not available outside the US (?). OpenAI and DeepSeek have no such issues. It's a bummer really, I'm happy paying for this but they don't want me to.
Fed officials' comments highlight split on central bank about interest-rate cuts
A short essay on sharing profits in a company
That and you don't get the same pay by living somewhere cheaper.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) – The Next Evolution of SEO?
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I built AnswerEngineOptimization.com to explore this concept:

What AEO is and why it matters
How to structure content for AI-driven search
Best practices to get your answers featured
Curious to hear what HN thinks: Is AEO the future of search, or just another SEO trend?
There was a comment here on HN, I think, that explained why enterprises spend so much money on garbage software. It turned out that the garbage software was a huge improvement on what they did before, so it was still a savings in time and money and easier than a total overhaul.

I wonder what horror of process and machinery the supplier used before the fax->PDF process.
I guess my question is, are all these startups going to Detroit because of the positive vibes, or are they actually getting compelling direct subsidies / credits / etc from the government?

(Not that there is anything wrong with giving or taking subsidies necessarily, but that might paint a more accurate picture of the incentives in place)
IP secrecy isn't a moat in the age of AI. Open Source is the only way.
Signal has the same thing as Simplex. You can change your user ID at any time, and the only thing that does is that the old ID can't be used to find you.
BYD Seagull hatchback launched, price starting at 9,700 USD
all the apocalyptic stories about Detroit’s decay after the ‘08 collapse and one thing that stuck with me was that there were serious discussion about razing entire empty neighborhoods to deal with the fact the city was a lot smaller than it used to be.

In my area, there are a lot of communities that have also gone through decades of contraction and are now sparsely populated with a lot of dilapidated structures. It’s depressing and requires keeping around a lot of infrastructure that these areas can’t afford to support.

I’m torn between thinking a) we should raze these unusable buildings, tear out some roads, eventually revert to nature OR b) start a massive reinvestment program to give stuff away and bring in some new blood to revitalize.
Even more, a significant portion of the researchers at industrial labs got their start as graduate students, largely funded by government grants. Even if somehow no actual fundamental research transferred from academia into industry, the people sure do.
Open source licensing where the limit is on the ai-backend right?
> I don't understand how people don't see that AI can give them "superpowers" by leveraging a developers least productive time into providing their highest value.

I'm unwilling to write code^1 that's not correct, or at least as correct as I'm able to make it. The single most frustrating thing in my daily life is dealing with the PoC other devs cast into the world that has more bugs than features, because they can't tell it's awful. I've seen code I've written at my least productive, and it's awful and I'm often ashamed of it. It's the same quality as AI code. If AI code allows me to generate more code that I'm ashamed of, when I'm otherwise too tired myself to write code, how is that actually a good thing?

I get standards for exclusively personal toy projects, and stuff you want others to be able to use are different. But it doesn't add value to the world if you ship code someone else needs to fix.

^1 I guess I should say commit/ship instead, I write plenty of trash before fixing it.
Ask HN: Future of Windows operating system and application
Now that windows is more tightly integrating with linux and supporting wsl etc and applications are increasingly xplatform e.g. vs code in electron on linux, apple etc where do we see this ending. Is there much change in how windows is evolving under the hood or in the way (previously) native applications are being developed? Although Windows is seen as less relevant these days mainly due to the increase in share of mobile and tablets, in the corporate world I still see everything I do with everything client is 99% windows in terms of the desktop/laptop infrastructure (even though it doesn't need to be).

Are you aware of any current writings on the subject and strategy of the Windows OS team?
I left Michigan about 3 years ago after living around Detroit for 7 years. Tech jobs there are primarily with the Big 3, and the cult known as Rocket. There are places like Ann Arbor, but again, the opportunities are limited.

As for Detroit itself, I feel like I've seen this headline every year for the past decade. I'm not saying that Detroit hasn't made progress (it absolutely has, go visit the refurbished train station), but compared to other cities it's still lagging.
Is it correct to assume that if you disable the GPS for apps the exact location is not sent or I am missing something?
> Can't we just send LLMs back to the drawing board until they have some semblance of reliability?

Well at this point they've certainly proven a net gain for everyone regardless of the occasional nonsense they spew.
I’ve lost interest in the “obv gender equals sex, because sex defines gender” nonsense, but your question is interesting.

Murder comes to mind, but lots of asterisks there (it’s not murder if it’s an honor killing). I’m hard pressed to think of universal mores. Respect for elderly maybe? Or unacceptability of theft?
Organizational Information Theory
This is why we can’t have nice things.

You don’t have to use pronouns if you don’t want to.

Why do you care if another human’s happiness is centered on gender identity?

No one has ever been assaulted by a trans but every day there’s another report of a pastor or priest molesting children.

“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is in our declaration of independence.
> Posix shell-compatible scripts will also likely work on all platforms where you go program would've been run.

While I see your point, writing a Posix compatible shell script is not trivial. Little errors creep in that "work on my machine" because /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash, but break the script when someone runs it on macOS.

In my experience, you get a lot of cross-platform compatibility when writing Go for zero effort.
I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
Sucks to be the residents that now have no good solutions for high-speed Internet.
Challenge Trump's Tariffs Under the Nondelegation and Major Questions Doctrines
What if I use an LLM but I understand the code?

The drawback is that elements in a hashmap can’t be sorted and accessing a specific element by key is slower then accessing something in an array by index.

Linear search is easier to implement.

These are all trivial questions you ask to determine if a person can develop code. The hard questions are whether the person is the cream of the crop. The amount of supply of developers is so high most people don’t ask trivial questions like that.
Even in a single-threaded environment, passing a struct around containing values allows you to implement dynamic scoping, which in this case means, you can easily call some functions with some overridden values in the global struct, and that code can also pass around modified versions of the struct, and so on, and it is all cleanly handled and scoped properly. This has many and sundry uses. If you just have a plain global variable this is much more difficult.

Although Perl 5 has a nice feature where all global variables can automatically be treated this way by using a "local" keyword. It makes the global variables almost useful, and in my experience, makes people accidentally splattering globals around do a lot less damage than they otherwise would because they don't have to make explicit provision for scoped values. I don't miss many features from Perl but this is on the short list.
Hardly exclusive to fascism, unless that's your blanket term for "bad thing".
There is absolutely no chance for this company to reduce the price of iridium before you die.

For now, even the cost per kilogram of a payload launched in an Earth orbit is greater than the price of iridium.

The cost of the energy for the round-trip to an asteroid per kilogram of brought back substance would be much greater.

Even this transportation cost would be dwarfed by the cost of the energy and of the chemical reactants needed to extract on the surface of an asteroid one kilogram of iridium from a thousand tons of ore, which would normally consist of iron-nickel-cobalt alloy, which is very hard to process, either mechanically or thermally.
„Leaked“ videos of political enemies saying abysmal things

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on steroids.
It is happening, but it takes time as those cities can only grow as fast as palatable housing stock comes online. The largest percentage growths in home values, with short days on market, have have been in Rockford, Akron, Fort Wayne, Lansing, etc. There is new construction in all of these markets, but much of it is from rehabbing old manufacturing buildings, another limiter, or from a mix of public and private money that city government can only consider so quickly. Economic growth is mostly in services to support the remote jobs. Building new primary businesses (sell out of local market) might never happen. So they look just as sleepy as ever even though there’s a lot of activity in housing and new transplants.
We have - I believe the first review will be coming out this week. More soon.

There's a review from The Register that just came out: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/furiphone_flx1/
Self inflicted harm - I’m doubtful that will get the outcome they are hoping for
To make it worse: "Look, the things I added to the definition aren't bad in this specific language and use-case, so global variables are not the problem".

To me, the author either has a very narrow field of focus and honestly forgets about all the other use-cases, practicalities and perspectives, or they choose to ignore it just to fire up a debate.

In any case, these constructs are only true for JavaScript (in node.js whose setup avoids threads common issues), and fall flat in a multithreaded setup in about every other languages.

If I were to port this to Rust, first, the borrow checker would catch the described bugs and not allow me to write them in the first place. But secondly, if I really insist on something global that I need to mutate or share between threads, I can do so, but would be explicitly required to choose a type (Mutex, RwLock, with Arc or something) so that a) I have thought about the problem and b) chose something that I know to work for my case.
To learn new math, a professional mathematician foremostly just thinks further (it's its job); to discuss with other entities (and acquire new material), textual input and outputs suffice.
I don’t think you actually read it. The benchmarks are in reference to the model that’s underlying deep-research, and not deep-research itself. For the latter, they have anecdata from scientists.
Ive been a pc gamer for a little of 2 decades and this is one of the best times to be a PC gamer. Production costs of video games have ballooned so much that both Microsoft and now even Sonys exclusive are coming to the PC because they simply cannot sustain games that are exclusive to just 1 console. Granted Microsoft has not been hostile to PC gaming for a while now but i never thought id see the day Sony would port some of their exclusives onto the PC
Elon did go straight to the heart of the US government by taking control of the Treasury system. And if he has Trump's blessing to just arbitrarily change things, he can really remake the US.

Quite unprecedented times. While there could be a ton of lawsuits I think they won't be able to catch up with the changes. That seems to be the point, move fast enough that there is no recourse.

I see that same strategy happening with the tariffs + escalation with Canada.
Guessing it's due to swapping? I imagine disk activity from a dashboard cam is a monotonous long write stream. Disk activity on a Pi is your modern VM OS constantly swapping memory between RAM and drive.
That is... debatable. You may be entirely inside the bubble, there.
Oddly bummed to see it fail. It was pretty fascinating to see during the day, how insanely bright the top of the tower was.

It had lots of flaws (environmental impact and animal life). Ultimately technology moved ahead of its capabilities.

I’m glad we tried an idea. Not all will make it, and that’s ok!
Operational and Denotational Strategies for Understanding Code
What does fascism have to do with anything?
Also human judgement is loaded with bias. Height influences outcome and this is a statistically proven phenomena. Ask any interviewer in this thread and they will claim height and good looks aren’t a factor but the statistics prove them wrong.

The literal only way to get rid of that is quantitative tests.
dupe, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42879340
It's a power grab by an unelected oligarch. If this happened literally anywhere else, American media would be calling it a coup.
I think the key point is that they would take your Linkedin password and try to use that on your email without asking you, in case you reused passwords.
This is... very uncomfortable. An (expanded) AI summary of my HN and reddit usage would appear to be a pretty complete representation of my "online" identity/character. I remember when people would browse your entire comment history just to find something to discredit you on reddit, and that behavior was _heavily_ discouraged. Now, we can just run an AI model to follow you and sentence you to a hell of being permanently discredited online. Give it a bunch of accounts to rotate through, send some voting power behind it (reddit or hn), and just pick apart every value you hold. You could obliterate someone's will to discuss anything online. You could effectively silence all but the most stubborn, and those people you would probably drive insane.

It's a very interesting usecase though, filter through billions of comments and give everyone a score on which real life person they probably are. I wonder if say, Ted Cruz hides behind a username somewhere.
I've nudged a few people who've asked me how to learn computer programming toward go - I think the simplicity of the tooling and language itself make it a good place to start. But I do think go mostly lends itself to multithreaded web services and it's hard to turn that into fun first projects for beginners.
Given the rampant privacy abuse on phones, I use a laptop.
NYC, Boston, and Toronto are still bustling. The uncertainty of work from home with RTO mandates popping up at a moments notice keep people from making the jump.
The EU right now is telling Meta that it is illegal to give users the option of either ads based on behavior on the platform or charging a monthly subscription fee.
On your website, "Learn More" links to a meeting invite? That's... a decision...

I think most people clicking that button would be better served by scrolling down, but that's not made very obvious.
Isn't that the desktop app? Which is neat, but needs to be linked to the phone app, AFAIK.
"no-root firewalls" to control data flows on devices (sorry for not publicly naming my preferred one).