MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dataflowmapper | 2025-05-14 17:15:05+00:00
Thanks for sharing that workflow, for more straight forward flows, that sounds like a decent approach. My main thoughts on where it could be improved, or where I see potential struggles, are when:

- People aren't comfortable or familiar with coding/Python. - You get into more complex imports like historical data, transactional data, etc. There you might have like 15 transaction types that have to be mapped, all with different fields, math, and conditional logic where the requirements become too much for just prompting ChatGPT effectively, and iterating on the Python can get pretty involved. - The source data structure and transformation needs aren't consistently the same, leading to a lot of 'throwaway' or heavily modified scripts for each unique case. - Tasks like VLOOKUPs or enriching data come into play, which might add manual coding or complexity beyond a simple 1-to-1 source-to-destination script.

These are the areas where I'm exploring if a more structured way could offer benefits in terms of repeatability and accessibility for a wider range of users or complex scenarios. Appreciate the insight into your process and your thoughts on this.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-14 17:15:05+00:00
It doesn't matter whether it is Mastodon or the "archive.today of X", almost anything contentious on those platforms turns into an infinite regress of finger pointing.

I think the first I heard of "gamergate" was that some guy, maybe in Maine, seemed to think that a bunch of radical feminists flipped over his car but it was an incredible story told from the viewpoint of somebody who already knows the moral status (always double plus good or double plus ungood) of 1000s of people.

People who are addicted to those platforms seem completely oblivious to it but the user interface on all of them for threaded discussions is terrible.
by schmookeeg | 2025-05-14 17:15:09+00:00
We're an AWS shop, so for lightweight or one-off stuff, it's a typescript lambda. Everything else ends up in a python script to output glue-friendly stuff to S3.

Assume at some point, the data will bork up.

If you ingest Excel (ugh), treat it like free range data. I have a typescript lambda that just shreds spreadsheets in a "ok scan for this string, then assume the thing to the right of it is this value we want" style -- it's goofy AF but it's one of my favorite tools in the toolbox, since I look magical when I use it. It allows me to express-pass janky spreadsheets into Athena in minutes, not days.

It is based on the convert-excel-to-json library and once you grok how it wants to work (excel -> giant freaky JSON object with keys that correspond to cell values, so object.A, object.B, object.C etc for columns. array index for row number), you can use it as a real blunt-force chainsaw approach to unstructured data LARPing as an excel doc :D
by sotix | 2025-05-14 17:15:27+00:00
The mistake with high school literature in my opinion is that it tries to cover too many works. My freshman year, we read Shakespeare, the Odyssey, Catcher in the Rye, and more. We should have started with Greek mythology and learned who the gods were. Then learned about the hero’s from the various myths. Then moved onto the Iliad, and finally the Odyssey. Instead, I had to read the Odyssey and write a paper on it without proper context. The people who listened to the Odyssey in Ancient Greece were very familiar with the myths and Greek gods. My teacher did a good job laying the groundwork, but I still think something was lost by not going through the previous works. Ancient Greek literature and oral tradition deserves a much more complete course.

The following year we could have probably moved onto Shakespeare and discussed which plays were inspired by which Ancient Greek myths. Rather than checking off boxes to say we read all the great books, we could have developed a more natural ability to analyze works and understand influences. Pulls, I believe certain books such as the Great Gatsby are probably better appreciated in college when the reader is a bit older.
by ddingus | 2025-05-14 17:15:46+00:00
Well crap, I had written a thank you, which I will gladly write again:

I love when product announcements and ADS in general are high value works. This one was good education for me. Thank you for it!

I had also written about my plasma and CRT displays and how misunderstandings about HDR made things generally worse and how I probably have not seen the best these 10 bit capable displays can do.

And finally, I had written about 3D TV and how fast, at least 60Hz per eye, 3D in my home made for amazing modeling and assembly experiences! I was very sad to see that tech dead end.

3D for technical content create has a lot of legs... if only more people could see it running great...

Thanks again. I appreciate the education.
by Steltek | 2025-05-14 17:15:49+00:00
From the article:

> But how can websites know whether its users are using secure authenticators? Authenticators can cryptographically prove certain facts about their origins, like who manufactured it, by generating an attestation statement when the user creates a passkey; this statement is backed by a certificate chain signed by the manufacturer.

How many scummy companies trot out "Let me protect you from yourself" to justify taking away their users' freedoms?
by tomjakubowski | 2025-05-14 17:15:55+00:00
DuckDB is not only a storage solution. It can directly query a variety of file formats at rest, without having to re-store anything. That's one of its selling points: you can query across archival/log data stored in S3 (or wherever) without needing to "ingest" anything or double-pay to duplicate the data you've already stored.
by germinalphrase | 2025-05-14 17:15:59+00:00
I’m not in denial that someone somewhere at some time has taught Lolita at the HS level, but the suggestion that it’s common and “taught in a lot of high school classrooms” requires evidence. The same reason you find that idea infuriating is the same reason I don’t believe the assertion is true.

As for your evidence, only the first link has anything to do with HS classroom, and it’s a single teacher teaching it in some capacity - not a discussion of school/district/state curriculum or an indication that the text was required reading. None of your other references have anything to do with HS curriculum or indicate in any way that Lolita is being commonly taught at the HS level.
by parliament32 | 2025-05-14 17:16:09+00:00
In North America, across hundreds of hotel stays, I have seen exactly zero ensuite washing machines. For extended stays, being able to kick off your laundry and leave for the day is absolutely priceless. Having to set timers and babysit coin-operated laundry on a different floor just isn't worth it, to the point where I'd rather just pay $$$ for hotel laundry service over using their communal laundry room.
by mxfh | 2025-05-14 17:16:24+00:00
Funny enough HDR content works absolutely perfect as long as it stays on device that has both HDR-recording and display tech, aka smartphones.

The problem starts with sending HDR content to SDR-only devices, or even just other HDR-standards. Not even talking about printing here.

This step can inherently only be automated so much, because it's also a stylistic decision on what information to keep or emphasize. This is an editorial process, not something you want to emburden casual users with. What works for some images can't work for others. Even with AI the preference would still need to be aligned.
by the__alchemist | 2025-05-14 17:16:31+00:00
I seem to have eased into a rust programming style that dodges these, perhaps at the cost of some optimizations. Using the first example, for example (The article suggests this): Don't return an `&str`; use those for transient things only like function parameters; not for struct fields or returned types.

I'm starting to wonder what I'm missing out by doing this. Not addressed in the article: Any tips for using the more abstract features, like Cow etc? I hit a problem with this today, where a lib used Cow<&str> instead of String, and the lifetime errors bubbled up into my code.

edit: I found this amusing about the article: They demo `String` as a param, and `&str` as a return type for triggering errors; you can dodge these errors simply by doing the opposite!
by eqvinox | 2025-05-14 17:16:34+00:00
Minimum wage in Germany (12.82€) is almost double the US federal one ($7.25). And contrary to popular belief, no, taxes and fees are not massively higher.

[Ed.: actually, thanks to 'recent developments' causing the USD to depreciate, it's pretty exactly double.]

(Only the highest of the local minimum wage setups in the US are slightly higher than the German one, e.g. CA's $16.50)
by pauldino | 2025-05-14 17:16:34+00:00
I did something similar where I left an old Android phone at home and logged in to what I think used to be messages.android.com (now google.com) from a laptop praying the session wouldn't get lost before I got back from my trip. :)

Lately though, SMS works over WiFi calling and usually if I need a real SMS where Google Voice won't cut it, it can wait for WiFi...
by taylodl | 2025-05-14 17:17:03+00:00
Ironically, I think the tariffs is what led to inflation not being as bad as thought, but in a roundabout manner.

Because the majority of Americans understand how tariffs work, they expected and prepared for an economic slump - which is happening. Part of that preparation involved increasing savings, which means spending had to be lessened. That's a decline in demand. A decline in demand will lead to prices lowering, or in the short-term, prices staying steady. We're seeing prices staying relatively steady.

The issue is someone in this administration is going to get the wrong takeaway from these events.
by gmoot | 2025-05-14 17:17:06+00:00
I don't dispute that the teen birth rate is much lower now. I'm trying to estimate out the counterfactual "what would the US birth rate be if teen pregnancy was (say) the same as 2 decades ago" ? Currently it's 1.66.

But the back-of-napkin math is hard for me to figure out from the given "births per 1,000" women per different age group.
by neom | 2025-05-14 17:17:13+00:00
One would presume these things would need to be quite long lived (Stuxnet for example took years to execute iirc?), maybe I'm thinking about it wrong/over thinking it, but the logistics of China maintaining cell backhaul in foreign countries for solar farm telemetry seems... I dunno, just doesn't add up for me, seems easier to lora and pay some kid $500 to drive by the site and yoink.
by eitally | 2025-05-14 17:17:22+00:00
That's the way it already works in many cases, just like with outpatient surgery clinics and other outpatient specialist practices. There is a critical difference, though, because radiology also has sub-specialities and someone focused on orthopedics probably isn't the one you'd want reading your cardiology images, nor would you want your ophthalmologic radiologist trying to diagnose a brain CT.
by draga79 | 2025-05-14 17:18:37+00:00
I’m the author of the post. I hinted, in a cryptic sentence near the end, that I necessarily had to leave out the worst parts of the story. No, no organized crime. But yes, there were people who appropriated resources that weren’t theirs and used every tool at their disposal to avoid scrutiny. To keep it vague, let’s just say some of the people involved had means that could seriously harm the businesses and their owners. And since these were primary businesses, that would have been a serious problem. The owners, knowing this, tried to find solutions but couldn’t really “afford” to remove the people involved. To be specific, in the end the owners themselves were aware of what was happening, but hoped to resolve it with a few more checks. Eventually, I realized that as long as there was enough money for everyone, they were okay with the ongoing theft.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-05-14 17:19:07+00:00
I feel the same way. To be honest even the laptop retina screen is excess. I sometimes go back to a 2012 non retina macbook pro and to be honest at normal laptop viewing angles, you can’t really discern pixels. Biggest difference is display scaling but I have my retina scaled at what the old display would be anyhow because otherwise its too small.

Kind of crazy no one thought of this aspect and we just march on to higher resolution and the required hardware for that.
by unignorant | 2025-05-14 17:20:34+00:00
This technique doesn't actually use RL at all! There’s no policy-gradient training, value function, or self-play RL loop like in AlphaZero/AlphaTensor/AlphaDev.

As far as I can read, the weights of the LLM are not modified. They do some kind of candidate selection via evolutionary algorithms for the LLM prompt, which the LLM then remixes. This process then iterates like a typical evolutionary algorithm.
by Robdel12 | 2025-05-14 17:20:45+00:00
I was a very early employee at the other two start ups that were acquired and even with equity it was not worth it. After all the class A shares were paid out, the rest of us got little.

I mean, hindsight 20/20 here, but I would have loved the theoretical money @ 1 billion. But those are so rare and my experience in the past 15 years hasn’t matched those unicorns.

Basically I’ve come to the conclusion unless you have serious equity or you’re a founder, acquisition suck. You’re the one doing the work making these two companies come together, while the founders usually bounce or are stripped of any real power to change things.
by chneu | 2025-05-14 17:20:58+00:00
You're making claims to begin with. Please cite your sources on B-12 and the other claims you've made. You're saying things that smell of bias. It also appears you're ignoring evidence that contradicts what you're saying, or at least choosing to not take it seriously.

I've been vegan for years. This stuff aint hard. The way people talk about vegan diets is wild. Vegan b-12 is easy to get, lol. Next you're going to claim that it's impossible to eat enough protein on a vegan diet, lol.

The way you speak about diets and vegan stuff smells very heavily of "bro beef pseudoscience" that's popular in the Joe Rogain type circles. I wouldn't be surprised if you claim the carnivore diet is the peak human diet. That's what I mean. You're repeating things that are not difficult to prove wrong with an air of superiority. It comes off as very "I know stuff you do not" which is very prevalent in the Joe Rogain circles.
by mrandish | 2025-05-14 17:21:00+00:00
> I think the solution for HDR is similar penalization based on log luminance or some other reasonable metric.

I completely understand the desire to address the issue of content authors misusing or intentionally abusing HDR with some kind of auto-limiting algorithm similar to the way the radio 'loudness wars' were addressed. Unfortunately, I suspect it will be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve without also negatively impacting some content applying HDR correctly for artistically expressive purposes. Static photos may be solvable without excessive false positive over-correction but cinematic video is much more challenging due to the dynamic nature of the content.

As a cinemaphile, I'm starting to wonder if maybe HDR on mobile devices simply isn't a solvable problem in practice. While I think it's solvable technically and certainly addressable from a standards perspective, the reality of having so many stakeholders in the mobile ecosystem (hardware, OS, app, content distributors, original creators) with diverging priorities makes whatever we do from a base technology and standards perspective unlikely to work in practice for most users. Maybe I'm too pessimistic but as a high-end home theater enthusiast I'm continually dismayed how hard it is to correctly display diverse HDR content from different distribution sources in a less complex ecosystem where the stakeholders are more aligned and the leading standards bodies have been around for many decades (SMPTE et al).
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-05-14 17:21:22+00:00
Greenland has been under intense pressure from China and Russia trying to gobble up anything they can.

Just one example. There are others of China and/or Russian interests buying up British, Dutch, Australian, etc companies that have existing contracts and then switching it over to their control.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/11/23/greenland-mining-ch...
by tears-in-rain | 2025-05-14 17:21:39+00:00
> Don't use antagonistic or otherwise embarrassing names.

Words like "moron" or "twit" are good names if no one else is going to see them. But if you ever give someone a demo on your machine, you may find that they are distracted by seeing a nasty word on your screen. (Maybe their spouse called them that this morning.) Why bother taking the chance that they will be turned off by something completely irrelevant to your demo.

This.. Now i have bunch of meme-bros instead of useful colleagues.
by kaikai | 2025-05-14 17:21:42+00:00
Oh, this happens to me. I didn’t even realize that’s why I wasn’t receiving some sms codes, because sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I live in a rural area and have spectrum for both wifi and mobile (just like the woman in the article). I have some cell service, but depending on how strong it is in any given day am usually relying on wifi for calling and sms.

SMS codes have been hit or miss, and this explains it well.
by zaken | 2025-05-14 17:21:43+00:00
Honestly it's this line that did it for me:

> AlphaEvolve enhanced the efficiency of Google's data centers, chip design and AI training processes — *including training the large language models underlying AlphaEvolve itself*.

Singularity people have been talking for decades about AI improving itself better than humans could, and how that results in runaway compounding growth of superintelligence, and now it's here.
by aprdm | 2025-05-14 17:21:49+00:00
I got into CS because I liked games. I wouldn't know how to ping a host by year 2, in fact, I hated CS and only finished it because my father insisted.

Wasn't until I got my first internship by year 4 that I started to work/enjoy it, and have had a very successful career so far (20y in)
by fzeroracer | 2025-05-14 17:22:12+00:00
> The author wasted a significant amount of his own time, and the hiring manager’s time with all the questions, the proposal, etc.

Maybe if the hiring manager didn't want their time wasted they shouldn't be using a stupid take-home prompt? Frankly everything I've seen here indicates that I would never work for Kagi and would actively encourage people to never work there.
by mrob | 2025-05-14 17:22:14+00:00
>Mulholland Drive

From the article:

"One of my favourite films, David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001), conforms pretty closely to formulaic structure, even if it is complicated by dream sequences: the inciting incident of the car crash; Betty’s quest to help Rita rediscover her true identity. I believe that one reason we don’t object, don’t groan with boredom, is that the scaffolding is – crucially – hidden."

I liked the movie, and I approve of this kind of creativity, but a disguised 3-act structure is still a 3-act structure.
by francisofascii | 2025-05-14 17:22:23+00:00
Writing C# / LINQ scripts for this gives you the flexibility to deal with whatever impedance mismatch you have. It gets tedious and maybe makes less sense when you have dozens of model properties that are straight copy property X from A to B. Then maybe a ETL tool like FME makes more sense.

Date example:

var dateValue = DateTime.ParseExact(yyyymmdd, "yyyyMMdd", null); var dateString = dateValue.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
by 4b11b4 | 2025-05-14 17:22:57+00:00
This isn't quite RL, right...? It's an evolutionary approach on specifically labeled sections of code optimizing towards a set of metrics defined by evaluation functions written by a human.

I suppose you could consider that last part (optimizing some metric) "RL".

However, it's missing a key concept of RL which is the exploration/exploitation tradeoff.
by sundaeofshock | 2025-05-14 17:23:03+00:00
> Most US public transit systems are funded by taxes in addition to fares. The true cost of a bus ride can be many times the ticket price. If the services doesn't provide enough value for the service, let the customer decide.

What about the true cost of cars? I don’t drive, yet my taxes are used to subsidize car ownership, including the storage of vehicles in public spaces. The various externalities — pollution, congestion, deaths, excess asphalt — are not included in the true cost of private car ownership.
by Robdel12 | 2025-05-14 17:23:11+00:00
The first acquisition I was apart of wasn’t too bad! But we were still culturally very different. So after 2 years and properly transitioning things, I bounced to another start up.

Walking into something like that is tough because the two teams sort of don’t like each other and you’re really “neither”. I’d want to make sure I was interviewed by both teams
by hilti | 2025-05-14 17:24:01+00:00
… I‘m trying to use our super computers in our pockets, like an iPhone ;-) But still struggling with the way how to present CSV data effectively on a small screen, although it‘s huge in terms of pixels compared to computer screens from the 90s

It‘s interesting to research how capable applications like Lotus123 have been even on low resolutions like 800x600 pixel compared to today’s standard
by ijk | 2025-05-14 17:24:23+00:00
Is that still as much of a thing? Maybe I'm over-indexed on comparisons with 1930-1960, but it seems to me that romantic subplots have been in decline--there are quite a lot of recent films that entirely lack such a thing--especially compared to back in the day. The academy's award structure of lead actor/lead actress seems like it was a better fit for days where you had to shoehorn that into everything. To the point that they stuck romance subplots into Marx Brothers movies regardless of if it made any sense. (Which is conclusive proof why Duck Soup is their best film, since the Groucho/Margaret Dumont romance subplot is better integrated into the film.)

I'd be interested in seeing someone do a breakdown of the frequency of romantic subplots in films; I have some guesses as to the possible pattern but this seems like a moment for hard data.
by jdefr89 | 2025-05-14 17:24:49+00:00
Ton of work already being done on this. I am a Vulnerability Researcher @ MIT and I know of a few efforts, just at my lab alone, being worked on. So far nearly everything I have seen seems to do nothing but report false positives. They are missing bugs a fuzzer could have found in minutes. I will be impressed when it finds high severity/exploitable bugs. I think we are a bit too far from that if its achievable though. On the flip side LLMs have been very useful reverse engineering binaries. Binary Ninja w/ Sidekick (their LLM plugin) can recover and name data structures quite well. It saves a ton of time. Also does a decent job providing high level overviews of code...
by yndoendo | 2025-05-14 17:25:00+00:00
I will go with yes for $500.

From an Pixel 5a perspective. The camera application provided by Google will only open Google's gallery application and will not open the one the end user sets as system default. User must exit the camera application and manually open the gallery application they really want to use.

One of the reasons I am looking forward for a company that provides a quality Linux base phone. That is the only way to get the system configuration and application select the end user really wants. Google and Apple are for profit prison Wardens with their mobile OSes.

PS. Has anyone ever studied the economic, resource, and power waste of system bloat-ware?