MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bjartr | 2025-05-14 13:33:56+00:00
Try not to hold it against people for not also having read hundreds of comments. Most people are going to respond to the just the article, which is going to result in duplicate advice, and that's fine. If you've already taken action for all the advice you consider actionable, great! That doesn't change how much of the advice is actionable in the context of the article though.
by os2warpman | 2025-05-14 13:34:16+00:00
Cosmos 482's orbital data and reentry predictions were publicly available from the US Space Force via USSPACECOM's space-track.org service.

It was tracked for decades as object number "NORAD 6073" and anyone with a sufficiently-capable observation apparatus could have imaged its reentry.

Provided they were in the middle of the Indian Ocean, of course.

It will be difficult to get an exact final position because the space surveillance network points up, not down, and it was behind the horizon from the GEODSS at Diego Garcia anyways, and ballistic missile radar coverage does not extend to the Indian Ocean.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-05-14 13:34:46+00:00
But is it substantially different? The writing from the 30's is extremely pessimistic. In the 50's and 60's everybody assumed that we were all going to die in a nuclear war. And going back in time you can find numerous examples of where the future was worse than uncertain, where an awful future for your children was guaranteed. As an extreme example, many children were voluntarily born into slavery.

I would argue that pessimism about the future is the rule, and the American optimism about the future in the 20th century was the exception.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-14 13:35:20+00:00
It's very interesting, but I'm still not convinced. It's not 100% agreement, only 99.99% agreement and in many of this experiments the errors are so low that a .01% difference is ruled out.

I think it's an interesting method to use a classical model to aproximate atoms, and I surprised that it gives very close results, but I think at the end it's like the Bohr atom, that works in simple cases but fails in the complicated ones. I'll try to think an example where the quantum mechanics effects are big enough to cause a problem.
by hilbert42 | 2025-05-14 13:36:12+00:00
"It doesn’t have text in the way you might think of it, but more of a mapping of glyphs to coordinates on “paper”."

I've often had trouble extracting text from PDFs, it's time consuming and messy, so a quick question.

The PDF format works pretty well for what it does but it's now pretty ancient, so does anyone know if there's any newer format on the horizon that could be a next-generation replacement that would make it much easier to extract its data and export it to another format (say, docx, odt, etc.)?
by ninetyninenine | 2025-05-14 13:36:31+00:00
Nobody is talking about your masters thesis which nobody gives a shit about.

We are talking about agentic LLMs which have been around for about a year only. Not some bs pre LLM ai chatbot or some useless thing like that? Are you autistic? No joke and more respect to you if you are but to a non autistic person I am obviously talking about AI which in modern contexts means LLMs and agentic AI obviously means agentic LLMs

Once you started getting into your masters thesis I stopped reading. Conversation is over. Good day.
by hn_acker | 2025-05-14 13:36:43+00:00
If the GOP successfully passes the ban, it would preempt state bills regulating content moderation systems, automated age gates, and automated privacy law compliance systems. California Consumer Privacy Act? Unenforceable. Think of the children? Unenforceable. (Sorry, Jonathan Haidt.) Social media should stop targeting political viewpoints? Unenforceable. (To be clear, non-government organizations have a First Amendment right to refuse to host certain viewpoints. And also, pre-2022 Twitter and Facebook targeted misinformation rather than political viewpoints [1].)

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07942-8
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-05-14 13:36:45+00:00
> but I would not call it polished

The hiring manager above thought it was too polished, but you think it is not polished enough.

> There’s no drafts. No CC or BCC field. No folders or labels (including sent or trash!). No replies. No threads. No shortcuts. There’s not even an indication of whether an email has been read or not. In terms of features it is very very very barebones

None of these were asked for. Your guess as to what the true requirements are completely different from the authors, and others in this comment section.

Everyone seems to have different opinions on why the author failed. No one should have their time wasted on a take home test destined to be rejected because they guessed wrong.

And in this case, the author explicitly asked if they were on the right track before spending time on the test. Kagi had the opportunity to reject early or nudge the author back in the expected direction. Instead they wasted everyone's time.

I don't see how this can be interpreted in a positive way.
by keiferski | 2025-05-14 13:37:09+00:00
Generally I think the subway is much faster if you’re going more than 2-3km, and the tram is slightly faster than cars because you have a designated lane. Tickets are time-based, not trip-based. A 20 minute ticket is about 94 euro cents and an unlimited day pass is maybe 4 euros?

I only use ride sharing for longer 30+ minute trips, and usually that is between 10 and 15 euros one direction.
by solarkraft | 2025-05-14 13:37:38+00:00
Modern (fin) tech companies have 0 respect for their users. What‘s 0.1% of accounts being locked out, with a good chance they are scam/money laundering accounts anyway? Eh, whatever.

If they complain, put them against an AI that doesn’t help. Whatever, we still have millions or billions of customers.

... forgetting that it breaks the trust, companies and whole lives of real people that decided to depend on them. Especially a bank CAN NOT spontaneously stop working and especially not with no recourse.

But is there even a way to make companies care about their users? Somehow the economics/management focus would have to shift (maybe legal recourse for spontaneous/unreasonable denial of service?).
by freehorse | 2025-05-14 13:37:42+00:00
I think treating it as a rational process and looking at the reasons behind makes sense, as opposed to "attitudes", in the sense that attitudes and culture are shaped through some processes.

I think that in modern societies children are a bad investment, but not only for this reason. If anything, I think that fertility rates were going down even before uncertainty for the future was up. Another commenter talked about urbanisation, and that in an agricultural society children were an investment, while in an urban one a liability. Some efforts focus on reducing the cost of having children, via social benefits etc, but the core reasons behind making having children actually costly is rarely addressed.
by ghaff | 2025-05-14 13:37:57+00:00
Depends where you are. Maybe in expensive cities where space is at a premium. But suite hotels (with various levels of kitchenette/kitchen) in the US are not, in my experience, notably more expensive--though often have simpler facilities--than more conventional hotels. (Bedroom may not be actually a different room from living room area but is often at least somewhat separated. So may not help with kids. Stay in this type of hotel in the US a lot.)
by fragmede | 2025-05-14 13:38:07+00:00
Why would it be anti-consumer though? An broken analog clock is right twice a day, and not letting there be a private market for the rich and well-connected is good for the individual realtor or firm that isn't well connected and is also good for consumers who aren't rich and well-connected. It means that property being sold get listed to a database that all consumers get access to, instead of conglomerates or large companies like Compass dominating the market with their private databases. it's like if there was a members only section of a store that sells specific things, and you have to know the right somebody to gain access to it. Regardless of the prices, the people running that corner of the store have advantages over the others, if they can generate demand for products only they can stock.
by viraptor | 2025-05-14 13:38:16+00:00
> It's got bounds checking in it man. That's all.

It's got bounds checking, lifetimes, shared access checks, enforced synchronisation, serious typed enums (not enforced but still helpful), explicit overflow behaviour control, memory allocation management, etc. etc. to help with safety. Far from "that's all".

> You can also write totally safe programs in C,

No you can't beyond trivial levels in practice. Even super human exceptions like DJB made mistakes and statistically nobody here is even close to DJB.

> use formal verification like this crypto library does

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -D.Knuth (That is - you can make mistakes in the spec too - see how many issues the verified sel4 had https://github.com/seL4/seL4/blob/master/CHANGES.md )
by suraci | 2025-05-14 13:38:20+00:00
I agree, india can still win even if a couple of planes are lost

in fact i think it's a very good mindset as it helps avoid further escalation of the war

> India has the money to replace any losses and buy more from any supplier in the world (we also have a homegrown defense industry). The Pakistanis are stuck with the export version duds that the Chinese supply them.

Agree, India has the money to buy 6 more Rafales, however, I believe the J10CE might offer better cost-performance and could be worth considering
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-05-14 13:38:30+00:00
My read of your first paragraph is that despite quality of life in the Nordic countries being overall better, it’s still not enough to offset the sacrifices associated with becoming parents.

If you frame this from an economical standpoint, there simply isn’t a single country in the world that adequately compensates parents (especially mothers) for the costs of raising children. These costs are numerous and not just financial — there’s also massive opportunity costs, and that’s to say nothing about the tradeoffs a parent is forced to make (“do I spend more time with my kid or spend more time working to help ensure they have a stable childhood and bright future?)

Simply put, if we want people to raise families it needs to make economical sense to do so. What exactly that looks like can be debated, but it’s likely something along the lines of one of the parents receiving a midrange part time or full time paycheck (depending on if they decide to stay at home or not) on top of the other parent being able to work an hour or two less each day without taking a hit to their paycheck.

Otherwise, it makes more sense to either accumulate wealth until the last biological second and then only have 1-2 children or simply have none at all. That’s what the current system incentivizes.
by maratc | 2025-05-14 13:38:44+00:00
> duopoly forces preventing the competition

Aka "malice".

> or insufficient PR

Aka "stupidity".

While I love Hanlon's razor as much as anyone, I love Occam's razor even more. And the simple explanation for that is that people don't like to use a mediocre combo when they could be using several purpose-built devices which excel at a specific job.

I like to go around with my Leatherman, but when I have a real job I get my toolbox out instead.

> it usually can do most tasks sufficiently well

An RV could do many "car tasks" sufficiently well, and it can do many "home tasks" sufficiently well, too. And while it has its place, it can't compete against the car + home combo, which is why most people have cars and homes but not RVs.
by spacecaps | 2025-05-14 13:38:55+00:00
I was irritated that I couldn't extract data from PDFs in a similar way to web pages + BeautifulSoup, so I built a library that (kind of) does just that[0]. It does a bunch of other nonsense, but the main goal is a more "human" way of interacting, e.g. `page.find('text:bold:contains("Summary").below().extract_text()`.

And since every PDF is its own bespoke nightmare, I'm also trying to build up a collection of awful-to-extract-data-from examples to serve as the foundation for a how-to library[1].

[0] https://jsoma.github.io/natural-pdf/

[1] https://badpdfs.com/
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-05-14 13:38:59+00:00
You're blaming the wrong people for the issue. Obviously there is demand for tourism in a way that hotels do not fulfill and the people who bought and rent out/host these residences are the ones enabling it by adding supply.

As someone who spends time being digital nomad myself, it isn't my fault when I stay in an AirBNB that is available somewhere since I'm just consuming the available supply that is permitted by the local government and I'm all for residents having priority. Often time its a local resident who owns and rents out the place in the first place, blame them for not renting to locals if you want. Its the local regulations and governments responsibility to regulate this.
by 5ADBEEF | 2025-05-14 13:39:15+00:00
Zephyr provides an open source implementation of all layers of the BLE stack. The radios of some devices are documented extensively, Nordic nRF5 devices are probably the best example.

The Bluetooth SIG requires that you qualify your device if you advertise that you use Bluetooth IP, similar to what is required for the cellular space. Do you have to do this if you’re just “Bluetooth compatible?” Maybe not. Whatever the case you have to conduct FCC part 15C testing (intentional radiator).
by ModernMech | 2025-05-14 13:39:31+00:00
I think it's actually easier, thanks to Cargo and the Crates ecosystem. Some of the hardest things for students are just building and linking code, especially third party libraries.

I run two intermediate programming courses, one where we teach C++, and another where we teach Rust. In the Rust course, by the first week they are writing code and using 3rd party libraries; whereas in the C course we spend a lot of time dealing with linker errors, include errors, segfaults, etc. The learning curve for C/C++ gets steep very fast. But with Rust it's actually quite flat until you have to get into borrowing, and you can even defer that understanding with clone().

By the end of the semester in the C++ course, students' final project is a file server, they can get there in 14 weeks.

In Rust the final project is a server that implements LSP, which also includes an interpreter for a language they design. The submissions for this project are usually much more robust than the submissions for the C++ course, and I would attribute this difference to the designs of the languages.
by Balgair | 2025-05-14 13:39:49+00:00
I think a more humane (and likely more successful) way out of this is to not try to convince the childless to have children at all, but to try to convince those with children to have more.

So, I'll pose this question to HN and see what you all say: If you have kids, why not more? (if you're too old/young, just imagine you're the right age)

I'll go first: We'd both like to have more kids, but we honestly don't have the time for another. They really do eat up loads of your time. I already only have ~15 minutes at the end of the day for myself, another one would make me go negative (somehow). Part of this is our situation: my folks need some intensive memory care and my In-Laws aren't really interested in any childcare duties. We spend about an hour a day in the car shuttling about the ones we have, so more destinations isn't too bad, but would be tougher. Monetarily, we're more than fine compared to our neighbors, education should be well and paid for through college (very lucky here, we know). We can and do afford weekend activities. Our religious group is alright, they care, but there is just too many old people that need help and really suck all the charity-time out of the group as is (read: mostly useless for child-care/assistance). So, we're probably going to stick at what we have right now.

I'm free to be questioned about my choices, so don't feel bad asking, though I'll try to keep some anonymity if that is alright.
by bestwillcui | 2025-05-14 13:40:03+00:00
Thanks! Yea the watch button should do that, we added 14.01 before that feature but will fix asap.

And yea probably thinking to do a guiding mode (as you said, often better to have the tutor guide you through step-by-step instead of giving you the answer right away) and a straightforward answer mode for the tutor. Or if you have any other ideas.
by jerven | 2025-05-14 13:40:15+00:00
4 people, for a short term stay is about where it starts to make sense to ride share. Long term, you would have an longer term pass, vastly reducing the cost of a busride, and you would often travel in smaller groups. So in my experience there are times when bus/tram can be much faster and convenient than a car. Of course there are many cases where it is the other way round (and going out of the cities that ratio changes dramatically for a car). Good city design tends to favor a ratio in favor of public transport over cars.
by JamesSwift | 2025-05-14 13:40:32+00:00
I havent daily driven android with material 3, so I cant comment on what current state is, but original material was basically a heavy emphasis on "real world" z-index, thinking of your UI like a stack of documents on a table, + a "kinetic" feel.

EDIT: also, I have to say as someone who did a lot of app dev on both iOS and android, I really appreciate the design system that google came up with in terms of codifying and simplifying especially the colors. They came up with a system that was able to distill your themes to something like 6 colors total (in the beginning, things have grown since) and that effectively served a vast majority of use cases and UI paradigms. And the way they categorized them made it really simple as an app dev to understand how and when to use them (also their grid was a much more 'engineering' way to think about things, and so that clicked with me as well)
by IAmBroom | 2025-05-14 13:41:04+00:00
Agreed.

We read selections from The Canterbury Tales, in translation, as high school freshman. Our genius history teacher made us promise not to tell our parents, and let us read one of the dirty ones. I was sold.

Later, I learned Middle English, and read the entire Tales. He's brilliant. Reliably funny and engaging (except for one chapter, obviously written in spite after being swindled IRL!).
by vel0city | 2025-05-14 13:41:07+00:00
I'd expect them to get the right equipment for them to operate their business instead of having people use their private cell phones to save my photo id to their personal iCloud account and God knows where else.

It's like you're arguing banks should be absolved of using tls because it's just so tricky.

If your business requires you to handle PII I expect you to have the right equipment and processes to handle it.
Show HN: AskAnyQuestion – Branded AI search engines powered by your content
by jroseborough | 2025-05-14 13:41:15+00:00
'Morning HN,

We just launched AskAnyQuestion.ai, a tool that lets you turn your documents into a branded search engine. No code required, just upload your content.

It’s for teams, businesses, and anyone tired of answering the same questions or maintaining clunky static search pages (or getting outdated answers from siloed knowledgebases). Each org gets both a public and private engine. You can embed it on your site, assign team roles, and share it with a QR code. It supports multiple languages out of the box.

We built this because, honestly, most people still aren't using generative AI where it could actually help. Sites are still running on outdated FAQ pages or static search that barely works. We wanted to make something more useful, more personal — and easier to set up than people expect. Something that feels like yours, not just another AI wrapper.

Would love any feedback on the onboarding flow, technical approach, or where you think this could be most useful. Happy to share details or answer questions.

Thanks, Jamaine (co-founder)
by mytailorisrich | 2025-05-14 13:41:22+00:00
None of that gives the right to chop down someone else's tree on some else's land. The reasonable course of action was to contact the tree's owner and to cordon off the area "at risk" in the meantime.

The only possible redeeming aspect is if the tree is part of the "demised land" of the restaurant, i.e. land that is part of their lease if they are leasing their premises (this is not mentioned in media reports as far as I know so it is unclear), but the reasonable course of action would still have been to contact the owner/landlord first as they usually must give permission.

Trees are already protected because, again, no-one has the right to chop down a tree that does not belong to them. This is why the people who chop down the Sycamore Gap Tree were charged with criminal damage. A tree preservation order adds another layer of protection in that even it is your tree you are no longer allowed to do any work on it without the Council's permission. In this case it is possible that they simply did not think it was necessary as the tree was in a Council-owned park.
by jacobr1 | 2025-05-14 13:41:24+00:00
Not the full thing - but I use Informed Delivery[1] from the USPS.

You get to see a picture of the envelope via email. With a little bit of Multimodal LLM usage I have their email summarized with important mail flagged for me.

[1] https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm
by bluGill | 2025-05-14 13:41:31+00:00
> I'd very happily open an app and pick a destination if it meant I was guaranteed a timely pickup, especially for less well served routes.

There is nothing about an app that can give you that guarantee. If the system cannot run their current schedule on time data on who wants to go where won't help them. They need to fix their operations to run on time. If their buses are full they need more buses, if they are skipping stops it is obvious that more people want to ride than there is room for without data on who that person is.

Your transit operator already has all the data they need. You need to ask why they are not acting on that data. I don't know if it is incompetence (that would be my expected answer in the US), or they lack the money to run more service. However either way the data they need exists and more data won't help.

Now if the transit operator is competent and has money: more data can help inform what is the best change of all options - but there are better ways to get that data than an app. An app is always limited to those who choose to install and use it (these days phones shut off installed apps that are not in use so you don't get data)
by seancorfield | 2025-05-14 13:41:37+00:00
A lot of companies seem to want to hire folks who "think like me". IMO, that's a mistake: you need diversity of thought to provide new insights into problems. If you all think the same way, and one of you gets stuck, then it's likely you'll all get stuck. This seems to be a common problem in startups, IME, and perhaps an indicator of why 9 out of 10 startups fail.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-05-14 13:41:44+00:00
I don’t think the publication date (May 8, as I type this) on the GitHub blog article is the same date this change became effective.

From a long-term, clean network I have been consistently seeing these “whoa there!” secondary rate limit errors for over a month when browsing more than 2-3 files in a repo.

My experience has been that once they’ve throttled your IP under this policy, you cannot even reach a login page to authenticate. The docs direct you to file a ticket (if you’re a paying customer, which I am) if you consistently get that error.

I was never able to file a ticket when this happened because their rate limiter also applies to one of the required backend services that the ticketing system calls from the browser. Clearly they don’t test that experience end to end.