MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nico | 2025-05-14 16:00:56+00:00
Tangential, for people looking for engineering/technical roles, I created this terminal app to help scrape and automatically filter jobs to match your resume using AI: https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs?tab=readme-ov-fil...

I recently updated it with application tracking as well, so you can keep everything in the same place

Any feedback and issues on GitHub are welcome
by nxobject | 2025-05-14 16:01:00+00:00
> You don't even know why you want the US mail to continue, but you're scared that if it stopped bad things would happen. They have virtually no value whatsoever, and whatever infinitesimal value remains is sabotaged by their obnoxious spamming enterprise.

That's exactly what my comment mentioned: I know why I want the US Mail to continue, and I know the contradictions inherent in that. I don't think paraphrasing "you don't know what you're talking about" is particularly warranted here.

And yes, they do that: I live in a state with widespread voting by mail, I receive prescriptions by mail, and I just received my Real ID.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-05-14 16:01:07+00:00
Or in this case you contact the owner of the tree before doing anything so that everything is agreed without surprises and arguments.

Especially it seems that the Council had apparently done their own assessment recently without finding issues: "According to the council leader, their experts said the tree was healthy and alive in December 2024." [1]

[1] https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/toby-carvery-faces-legal-actio...
by seesthruya | 2025-05-14 16:01:31+00:00
I agree with you, but here is where things get tricky:

Everyday I see something on a scan yhat I've never seen before. And, possibly, no one has ever seen before. There is tremendous variation in human anatomy and pathology.

So what do I do? I use general intelligence. I talk to the patient. I talk to the referring doctor. I compare with other studies, across modalities and time.

I reason. I synthesize. I think.

So my point is, basically, radiology takes AGI.
by yladiz | 2025-05-14 16:01:37+00:00
Unfortunately I don’t think there’s much to help with vendor lock in directly (like, you may or may not be able to export the private key(s) depending on the tool, and in some cases it’s definitely not possible like with a hardware key), but any website that supports passkeys supports WebAuthn in general so you shouldn’t have difficulty migrating to another tool if desired, although you would need to register again.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-14 16:01:44+00:00
They have to be able to reach high enough to get some of it. It has to repay their time in high school. It should also show them there's more to reach for, but they need to be able to get some of it.

For me, Gatsby was... not entirely terrible. It was mostly a waste of my time, but looking back I can see some of the themes were at least somewhat worthwhile.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was an absolute waste of my time. If Joyce is worth an adult reading (which I doubt to this day), then don't make high school kids read him.
by bluGill | 2025-05-14 16:02:31+00:00
Any usb-c docking station should work. (should being key, many are lacking something useful - commonly the monitor port is a usb-A video interface with windows-only drivers not a display port that would just work).

Though I suspect a laptop is still what you want. Your phone will generate too much heat to leave in your pocket. Or maybe some backpack (fanny pack?) wearable?
by kstrauser | 2025-05-14 16:02:41+00:00
I agree with every word of that.

For listeners at home wondering why you'd want that at all:

I want a centralized Git repo where I can sync config files from my various machines. I have a VPS so I just create a .git directory and start using SSH to push/pull against it. Everything works!

But then, my buddy wants to see some of my config files. Hmm. I can create an SSH user for him and then set the permissions on that .git to give him read-only access. Fine. That works.

Until he improves some of them. Hey, can I give him a read-write repo he can push a branch to? Um, sure, give me a bit to think this through...

And one of his coworkers thinks this is fascinating and wants to look, too. Do I create an SSH account for this person I don't know well at all?

At this point, I've done more work than just installing something like Forgejo and letting my friend and his FOAF create accounts on it. There's a nice UI for configuring their permissions. They don't have SSH access directly into my server. It's all the convenience of something like GitHub, except entirely under my control and I don't have to pay for private repos.
by alerighi | 2025-05-14 16:03:02+00:00
I don't either see a point of having 4K TV vs 1080p TV. To me is just marketing, I have at my house both a 4K and a 1080p and from a normal viewing distance (that is 3/4 meters) you don't see differences.

Also in my country (Italy) TV transmissions are 1080i at best, a lot are still 570i (PAL resolution). Streaming media can be 4K (if you have enough bandwidth to stream it at that resolution, which I don't have at my house). Sure, if you download pirated movies you find it at 4K, and if you have the bandwidth to afford it... sure.

But even there, sometimes is better a well done 1080p movie than an hyper compressed 4K one, since you see compression artifacts.

To me 1080p, and maybe even 720p, is enough for TV vision. Well, sometimes I miss the CRT TVs, they where low resolution but for example had a much better picture quality than most modern 4K LCD TV where black scenes are gray (I know there is OLED, but is too expensive and has other issues).
by badmonster | 2025-05-14 16:03:30+00:00
Entity resolution is a great topic and there’s lots of research in this area. This is something I’m looking into next. I’m thinking about

- Metadata based match (I’ve done that with search system in the past)

- Embedding base match (false positive is definite consideration

- Using knowledge graph itself to do entity resolution before feeding the entities to graph next

Add human in the loop to guide entity resolutions.

What do you think? Would love to learn your thoughts:)
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-14 16:03:53+00:00
I read it close to 20 years ago now, but my recollection was that all of the characters being unlikable and everything they wanted and did (basically, worrying about status) being uncompelling was kind of the point.

Emerson tells you not to care about what other people think. Fitzgerald gives you an extended opportunity to experience not caring about what other people (particularly "high status" people) think.
by moffkalast | 2025-05-14 16:03:57+00:00
Along the same lines, am I the only one who thinks it's weird that when logging in on a desktop PC the average bank requires a:

- username

- password

- one time generated 16 digit number

- SMS confirmation

- email confirmation

- phone call with an associate

- retinal scan

- DNA sample

Whereas to log in on mobile all you potentially need is a 4 digit pin which a passerby could easily observe, then yank the phone from your hand?
by rimunroe | 2025-05-14 16:03:59+00:00
> Meanwhile, I get to pay $9 MORE to drive my licensed, registered, insured vehicle on increasingly narrow roads filled with increasingly negligent 2-wheeled asshats because it's the preferred business model.

It sounds like measures to limit the danger of electric bikes might be warranted, but that’s a separate issue. Even if electric bikes are a problem I’d be shocked if they came anywhere close to causing the pedestrian fatality rate of cars (even when controlled by frequency of use) in an urban environment, not to mentioni the additional impacts of things like emissions (including non-tailpipe), noise, space, etc. of cars. I don’t know much about motorcycle statistics. I can imagine the group that rides motorcycles might be less likely to hit pedestrians than those of e-bike riders, but I don’t know.

If we have to choose only one of these problems to tackle at a time—which we don’t!—I’d rather they tackle the one which is killing hundreds of people a year.
by sebastiennight | 2025-05-14 16:04:11+00:00
That... seems correct, although in some jurisdictions (eg Singapore) my understanding is you can choose to report all your numbers in a different currency than the local one.

But... having to report numbers in EUR, doesn't mean having to convert to EUR. So you are *not* actually a victim of the currency fluctuation because the conversion didn't happen.

I could tell you right now that your 2024 revenue was 150 billion Zimbabwe dollars, and I could tell you next week that sorry, newsflash, 2024 revenue is actually 75 billion Zimbabwe dollars.

This wouldn't change your ability to pay your vendors (or yourself) in any way, because you don't really hold a ZWG account, so... whatever my spreadsheet says about that currency's fluctuations is immaterial to your actual business.

Cash power (ability to purchase the things you need) is what matters, so by keeping your USD and spending it on your USD purchases, you're somewhat shielded from the forex issue. (Though US inflation is another problem)
by neom | 2025-05-14 16:04:13+00:00
I've spent a lot of time in Gangwon as I'm a big Sokcho fan, but was unaware that they had their own guksu. Begging the question, given Pyongyang Naengmyeon is better Naengmyeon, is Makguksu better than Pyongyang Naengmyeon?
by doctorpangloss | 2025-05-14 16:04:55+00:00
On the one hand, you’re totally right. The job takes general intelligence.

On the other hand, a lot of jobs take general intelligence. You’re right about that too.

It’s difficult to guess the specifics of your life, but: maybe you’ve engaged a real estate agent. Some people use no real estate agent. Some have a robo agent. No AI involved. Maybe you have written a will. Some people go online and spend $500 on templates from Trust & Will, others spend $3,000 on a lawyer to fill in the templates for them, some don’t do any of that at all. Even in medicine, you know, a pharma rep has to go and convince someone to add their thing to the guidelines, and you can look back at the time between the study and adoption as, well people were intelligent and there was demand, but doctors were not doing so and so thing due to lack of essentially sales. I mean you don’t have to be generally intelligent to know that flossing is good for you, and yet: so few people floss! That would maybe not put tons of dentists out of business. But people are routinely doing (or not doing) professional services stuff not for any good (or bad) reason at all.

Clearly the thing going on in the professional services economy isn’t about general intelligence - there’s already lots of stuff that is NOT happening long before AI changes the game. It’s all cultural.

If you’ve gotten this far without knowing what I am talking about… listen, who knows what’s going to happen? Clearly a lot of behavior is not for any good reason.

How do you know where the ball is going to go for culture? Personally I think it’s a kind of arrogant position: “I’m a member of the guild, and from my POV, if my profession is replaced, so is everyone else’s.” Arrogance is not an attractive culture, it’s an adversarial one! And you could say inertia, and yet: look who’s running the HHS! There are kids right now, that I know in my real life, who look like you or me, who went to fancy Ivy League school, and they are vaccine skeptical. What about inertia and general intelligence then? So I’ll just say, you know, putting yourself out here on this forum, being all like, “I will AMA, I am the voice,” and then to be so arrogant: you are your own evidence for why maybe it won’t last 10 years.
by entropie | 2025-05-14 16:05:07+00:00
^a is the worst for emacs users since ^a is begging-of-line which we use a ton.

When I first started using screen some years ago the emacswiki (I think) even mentioned it and recommended to remap it to ^p which it is for me for screen and tmux since then.

(I could remember something wrong here)
by andreeamiclaus | 2025-05-14 16:05:11+00:00
The image yes, it was generated and that's pretty clear.

We used to rely more on ChatGPT but that did not work out (figures!) so now it's a lot of authentic human speech.

So I'm curious when you say it has the hallmarks of LLMs since I also recognise a lot of them but not so much here
by jdietrich | 2025-05-14 16:05:31+00:00
In the context of peer or near-peer conflicts, Ukraine has shown us many reasons why a cellphone or satphone can get you killed. Anything with a radio transmitter is a giant beacon announcing your location if your enemy has a half-competent ELINT operation. Allowing personal devices with internet access to be used in the field is a gargantuan COMINT risk, because it's basically inevitable that some idiot is going to post a geotagged photo of something sensitive on social media. Mail delivered through specific authorised channels can be monitored and censored much more easily than real-time communications.
by saalweachter | 2025-05-14 16:06:27+00:00
I don't have primary sources, unfortunately -- I'm recalling something I read in _Oxygen_, which I found reassuring. It said that, one of the benefits of our oxygen-rich atmosphere was that we would lose an insignificant amount of hydrogen/water over the next billion years. It's one of those things that doesn't actually matter to me in my daily life, but I still find comforting, so it's stuck with me.
by adastra22 | 2025-05-14 16:06:28+00:00
I believe this answer is correct. Ownership exists at the language level, not the machine level. Thinking of a part of the stack or a piece of memory as owning something isn’t correct. A language entity, like a variable, is what owns another object in rust. When that object goes at a scope, its resources are released, including all the things it owns.
by justlikereddit | 2025-05-14 16:06:39+00:00
>Unfortunately, there is no comparably vast database of medical images.

Even a tiny hospital with radiology services will produce many thousands of images with accompanying descriptions every year. And you are allowed to anonymize and do research on these things in many places as neither image nor accompanying description is a personal identifier.

So this is yet another Hinton-ish prediction, any time soon radiologist are going dodo. This time LLMs will crack the nut that image recognition have failed at for 20 years.

Where LLMs have succeeded is in doing hot takes that miss the mark, they should be really good at cornering the "prematurely predicting demise of radiologist"-market
by bigyabai | 2025-05-14 16:07:10+00:00
If it would help, most sane individuals consider gematria to entail "jumping to conclusions" too. Ask anyone. With that in mind, all but your first three posts are grounded in genuinely relevant context for discussion. Everything else is delusional and impossible for me to follow (if that makes me more mentally ill than you, so be it).

I also checked out your subreddit yesterday, which is just... more of the same, married with political conspiracy theories.

> Because otherwise you're just debasing yourself

I suggest you take what the other comment said to heart. This is the most genuine concern I've shown for someone on this site. If I wanted to fuck with you I could still have all sorts of fun, but I'm telling you as a gesture of courtesy that you are unwell.

Take it or leave it. Most of this website won't bother telling you since they perceive people like you to be job security.
by moonshot5 | 2025-05-14 16:07:22+00:00
AOSP platform dev here. (Filesystem) Opinions my own, I don't speak for Google.

Disclaimer: I don't use nextcloud, and have not looked at their app specifically, this is just a surface level observation from my relatively informed perspective.

My take: SAF would work for this use case, as others have already mentioned.

Google Drive does not have the permissions that next cloud claims Google is giving preferential treatment to, and is delivered via the Play store in the same way nextcloud's app is.

As others have also observed, permissions such as MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE have been rampantly abused in the past, often in horrific ways.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-05-14 16:07:23+00:00
yes, but how the hell he proposes to make A/B testing of "whole Manhattan policy"? build another Manhattan just for test? makes no sense. whole manhattan is important. not 5%. so no 5%. a/b test can be done only for things which affect one person, like for example GUI etc, big group under test but effect on individuals,

in such big scale a/b test is tool to deceive, not to get to right conclusion
by troupo | 2025-05-14 16:07:41+00:00
I dread returning to it after not having used it for a while, as I forget everything :)

Most cryptic messages I've encountered can usually be understood, as they tend to be in the same format and/or Spark errors. However, when they are cryptic, they are definitely cryptic :) (though I can't produce one off the top of my head right now).

Also, error messaging is improving with new releases.
by mike1o1 | 2025-05-14 16:07:43+00:00
I've been working on a project for a few months, and I had some of those initial pain points early on as well. I've actually found the codebase surprisingly approachable and have found the team to be very open to bugs and merging PR's. Many times I've created a bug report, and within a day, it's been fixed, or within a day I was able to track down the bug and open a PR to fix it.

Maybe it's just me, but I found the Ash (and ecosystem) codebase a lot more approachable than something like Rails.

The first few weeks on the project were tough, and the documentation challenges are certainly there, but they get better day by day.

After getting comfortable and accepting the "Ash" way, I've found my productivity to skyrocket when using Ash to build an Absinthe GraphQL api. Previously I'd have to build the context layer, then the resolvers, etc.

Now with Ash, I write my action, declare my query/mutation/subscription and get all the rest for free. I can't see myself going back to writing Elixir apps without Ash.
by lars_francke | 2025-05-14 16:08:01+00:00
This is at least partially subjective.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148007

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35299665

Ceph would be a theoretical option, but a) we don't have a lot of experience with it and b) it's relatively complex to operate. We'd really love to add a lighter option to our stack that's under the stewardship of a foundation.
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-05-14 16:08:05+00:00
It always surprises me how different people's experiences very so widely between UPS, FedEx, and USPS.

We ship packages via UPS, and have <1% lost/damaged. Not sure how long it's been now since a damaged/lost package - maybe 300?

It probably helps that our smallest packages are ~1000 cu inch and 6 pounds. Hard to lose.

I don't like dealing with UPS customer service, but I really like the actual shipping service. And it's very fast and predictable. Very rare that it takes any longer than UPS WorldShip predicts. 1 day shipping to most of our customers in our state, and some in neighboring states.
by gilbetron | 2025-05-14 16:08:27+00:00
To those non-parents, or older parents, or parents of small kids, this is not an exaggeration. My son (a sophomore) is taking the exact same classes as I did in high school, except he is taking an AP course as a junior, and probably 2 as a senior. He has a 3.9 ish GPA so far. He is, in general, doing better than I was, and I got into a top 25 university. I've had comments from counselors and teachers saying, "oh, so is he not really on a college trajectory?" Insane and destructive. The thing is, at the same time, colleges have gotten easier overall. My brother is a professor and he has largely retired because he has gotten sick of, "I know the student is failing the class because they didn't do the work, but can you please just pass them anyway?" from university leadership.

I work with a lot of high-end CS graduates, and some are great, but few of them blow my socks off.

Our education is just messed up right now.

(By the way, it is possible for a high school student to graduate with an entire year's college credits via AP classes)
by devnullbrain | 2025-05-14 16:08:44+00:00
>it's very different from other languages. That's intentional but also an obstacle.

It's very different from a lot of the languages that people are typically using, but all the big features and syntax came from somewhere else. See:

>The type system and the borrowing mechanism are good examples. Unless you are a type system nerd a lot of that is just gobblygook to the average Python or Javascript user.

Well, yeah, but they generally don't like types at all. You won't have much knowledge to draw on if that's all you've ever done, unless you're learning another language in the same space with the same problems.
by Suppafly | 2025-05-14 16:08:46+00:00
>Sometimes I think high school English courses are designed to make kids hate reading.

That's because most kids are too dumb at that point to understand that reading has multiple purposes, and being entertained and liking the characters isn't what they are trying to teach you in higher level English classes. Teachers often make that point clearly, but students are often half asleep or just in disbelief that reading might have other purposes than to instruct or entertain.
by bluGill | 2025-05-14 16:08:52+00:00
Speed of light limitations there is fundamental latency that will be noticed if you are not close enough. Many musicians are doing virtual jam sessions and 1000km is about the limit. Music is the most demanding application, depending on how your meeting is run some can handle a lot of meetings. Someone on Mars will forever be limited to just watching a presentation, someone on a different continent will need to raise their hand and be recognized before asking a question.
by mullingitover | 2025-05-14 16:09:19+00:00
> We aren't training enough new radiologists, which is a different discussion.

About that, I think the AMA is ultimately going to be a victim of its own success. It achieved its goal of creating a shortage of medical professionals and enriching the existing ones. I don't think any of their careers are in danger.

However, long term, I think magic (in the form of sufficiently advanced technology) is going to become cost effective at the prices that the health care market is operating at. First the medical professionals will become wholly dependent on it, then everyone will ask why we need to pay these people eye-watering sums of money to ask the computers questions when we can do that ourselves, for free.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-05-14 16:09:25+00:00
The main alternative to buses is private cars running on public roads. Those public roads are a massive subsidy for private cars. If private cars paid directly for their road usage, then it's much more likely that private bussing could successfully compete.

From the other perspective, a solid mass transit system significantly reduces the need for roads. It's likely cheaper for a city to expand its road capacity by adding buses than by adding lanes.
by mlhpdx | 2025-05-14 16:09:52+00:00
Everyone doing multi-tenant SaaS wants cost to be a sub-linear function of usage. This model of large unit capacity divided by small work units is an example of how to get there. The tough bit is that it’s stepwise at low volumes, and becomes linear at large scale, so it’s only magic during the growth phase — which is pretty solid for a growth phase company showing numbers for the next raise.
by jjulius | 2025-05-14 16:09:57+00:00
The large trucks being loaded with crops for delivery elsewhere should suggest that it contributes to the greater food supply, yes. Further...

>I once...

My phrasing did not suggest "one time" (the phrase was "I pass", suggesting regularity), and it's not just one single farm, it's a few, and I've passed them many times. I have to agree with someone else[1] about your using vocabulary that others haven't introduced - I question whether or not a good faith discussion can be had because of that. Have a good one!

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985331