MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by masfoobar | 2025-05-30 07:49:49+00:00
Its good to finally see this being 'a thing' in C#. In my opinion, it is 10 years overdue!

This feature is likely added to compete with Python, Ruby, etc. The fact you just create a file, write some code and run it.

However, I don't see C# being a competitor of said languages even for simple command lines. If anything, it could be a viable replacement to Powershell or maybe F# especially if you need to link it to other .NET DLLs and 'do things'

I am also interested in the performance difference compared to other languages. I mean even Dlang has a script-like feature for sometime, now.. rdmd. Not sure the status of that, but it still compiled and runs the program. Just seems overkill for something rather simple.
Ask HN: Why Companies Do Not Provide RSS Feeds of Job Openings
by quaintdev | 2025-05-30 07:50:48+00:00
It seems like a no brainer for them and yet very few companies actually provide one. I have found only two which do so: Canonical and Oxide.

Imagine applicants subscribing to RSS feeds of companies they are interested in. No more job boards or sifting through 100s of listing to find the one. I can configure my RSS reader to filter out jobs I'm not interested in. I can set up alerts for jobs requiring specific skills. The possibilities are endless.
by xg15 | 2025-05-30 07:51:26+00:00
> it's not a victimless change, it degrades a shared resource (the credibility of the school).

Do you think the students in that poll had really thought about the credibility of their university when voting? Also, how realistic is it that one professor giving everyone an A in a single course would damage the credibility of the entire university?

> and in particular one that is much more affluent than the people who need government subsidies the most.The government handing out money is not a free action!

If that were the case, the people protesting student Lian forgiveness should be at tge forefront of demanding increased coverage for Medicare and better social security systems in general - and should demand higher taxes for the classes of people that are even more affluent than the students. The opposite seems to be the case though: The people who oppose student loan forgiveness also oppose other social security laws and demand lower taxes even for rich people.
by ghaff | 2025-05-30 07:53:25+00:00
A lot depends on your travel habits. Credit on my usual airline (United) is pretty much a no-brainer within the year--I'll use it barring circumstances where losing some airline dollars are the least of my problems. Less so than it used to be but still.

For hotels, I still tend to pay the premium. I don't expect to cancel but, especially for an extended city stay, it can be a fair amount of money and the premium usually isn't that huge.
by piva00 | 2025-05-30 07:54:51+00:00
I believe you would appreciate living somewhere else than in an American city, many other developed countries do not suffer from the same malaise as American cities, being dense doesn't mean "turning toxic", there are many ways to densify a city while keeping it livable.

> There is: tax dense office space. There are no magically unique "amenities" in dense cities that make life worth living there, for the vast majority of people. Theaters and museum visits are at most a monthly occurrence (if that). And specialty ethnic restaurants are usually not a deal-breaker.

> Everything else is now available online: specialty stores, interesting classes, art-house movie clubs, etc.

You live online, that's fine if you are happy, many other people actually prefer social interactions, meeting for shared activities, and cities provide these amenities and the population to find your groups around. There's no way around that, living like a hermit in the woods with your own workshops, watching films by yourself (or with your family), etc. is a lifestyle choice and you can do it either way if dense cities exist or not. People will still congregate around the same spots that provide access to the activities they want, they will live in cities that have cultural events (theatres, concerts, museums, art, clubs), that provide gathering places for like-minded individuals: sports, ceramic classes, painting workshops, musicians gathering for jams.

You are wishful thinking that technology will somehow replace a deep social need for many, self-driving is bollocks, distance to activities is what matters, trains already exist in many developed countries and they bring people from far away into cities and still there's a big demand for people to live closer to the cities. I'm not judging you for wanting to live like that but you are extrapolating a very narrow view of how people live into the broader picture which simply doesn't work.
by tensorturtle | 2025-05-30 07:54:54+00:00
When it comes to full on vibe coding (Claude Code with accept all edits), my criteria is whether I will be held responsible for the complexity introduced by the code. When I've been commissioned to write backend APIs, "the buck stops with me" and I will have to be able to personally explain potentially any architectural decision to technical people. On the other hand, for a "demo-only" NextJS web app that I was hired to do for non-technical people (meaning they won't ever look at the code), I can fully vibe code it. I don't even want to know what the complexity and decisions AI has made for me but as far as I am concerned this will be a secret forever.
by 0points | 2025-05-30 07:57:41+00:00
> One should always assume the worst possible outcome, and plan for that.

Maybe if you work e-commerce or in the military.

But how do you even translate this line of thought for today?

Is you EMP defenses up to speed?

Are you studying russian and chinese while selling kidneys in order to afford your retirement home on Mars?

My point being, you can never plan for every worst outcome. In reality you would have a secondary data center, backups and a working recovery routine.

None of which matters if you use autocomplete or not.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-05-30 07:58:20+00:00
I always hear stereotypes about people in big cities being unfriendly and there being no sense of community, but I've had the opposite experience. Coming from a town with a population of hundreds, yeah, everyone knew everybody, but the connections people had were decades old. And everyone hated everybody who wasn't already part of their very tight social network (and they hated most of the people in the network as well, but they just had no other choice but to deal with it). And nobody wanted to associate with direct neighbors.

But living in a city, I've had shopkeepers who regularly see me set aside items that they know I'll like and make sure nobody buys it before I get a chance. I have neighbors that greet me every time they see me. Some chat me up. I've stopped in random hole in the wall restaurants and had other regulars (who I didn't know) randomly give me free stuff to welcome me to the community. People were willing to welcome new people in.

Now I know people will want to rush in and say, "That's not a city experience. My small town has all that and your small town just sucked!" To which I say, okay. That's your anecdote against mine. But cities are just as welcoming as people think small towns are. If you choose to stay in your room and grimace every time you do happen to go outside, yeah, it's lonely. But it's very easy to turn that around in a city with potential friends everywhere you look. And having been to cities around the world, I see loads of people chatting and laughing outside.
by comrade1234 | 2025-05-30 07:58:27+00:00
I don't think it's wrong at all. Better than a bunch of junk that you inherited but have no interest in sitting around gathering dust. Just thinking about my very old step-mother and very old father-in-law and all of the shit they've accumulated and how I'm going to have to deal with it after they die...

For example, my step-mother was a grade-school teacher and has a collection of old (some very old) children's books. I have no interest in them - some are even quite racist. But hopefully someone else will find value in them.
by JanMa | 2025-05-30 07:58:57+00:00
It is true that most of the commits in the last 12 months were made by cipherboy, but I can assure you that the project is not a one man show. Building a community and getting traction on a project is hard work and takes time.

Have a look at the contributions for our latest beta release and you'll see that the amount of people involved in the project is growing: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.3.0-beta2...
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-30 07:59:34+00:00
I'm having hard time relating; my experience is literally the opposite of yours. Grade 7-12 (if I parse that correctly; I mean 12-17yo) were literally the best part of my life. School was boring AF, but had its moments; it gave me some interesting people to talk with every day, and then I had plenty of time to pursue my interests. Stress? What stress?

Before that period? I don't remember much. After that period? Everything gets downhill. Being an adult in a society sucks and I hate it. Normal people lifestyle, with its routines and "work/life balance", with everyone around you having expectations around random customs, with having to do everything in tiny bite-sized chunks, because there's not enough time left after work, chores and family - that's just not compatible with my mind.

Yeah, I guess, this could be a mental health issue.
by Qwertious | 2025-05-30 08:00:06+00:00
>How is this relevant, and what does is even mean?

Some of the most productive research we could possibly do is basic research. But because basic research doesn't directly produce monetizable practical improvements, it doesn't get private funding (besides Bell Labs analogs) and is in practice woefully underfunded.

This is a failure of resource allocation that is attributable directly to capitalism.

I'm not advocating a communist revolution here, just pointing out a downside to capitalism.
by Elaris | 2025-05-30 08:00:53+00:00
It's kind of unbelievable that something that sounds so “harmless” like vitamins can actually pose serious risks when taken in high doses over a long period. The word “supplement” tends to give us a false sense of security, as if it must be safe by default. A lot of friends have told me that taking multivitamins is good for your health, but I’ve always been hesitant. I’ve felt that fresh fruit and a balanced diet are the more natural ways to nourish the body. Reading this article and the shared experiences here really surprised me. I had no idea vitamin B6 could affect different people in such dramatically different ways. Some seem to benefit, while others suffer from nerve issues. It makes me think maybe we’re too quick to assume more is better, and forget that what fits you is probably the most important thing.
by overfeed | 2025-05-30 08:00:56+00:00
> It's what you do with the machine that matters.

The capabilities of a machine matter a lot under law. See current US gun legislation[1], or laws banning export of dual-use technology for examples of laws that have inherent capabilities - not just the use of the thing- as core considerations.

1. It's illegal to possess a new, automatic weapon with some grandfathering prior to 1986
by ben_w | 2025-05-30 08:01:06+00:00
Most of the atoms in our crust are, in order, oxygen (46.1%), silicon (28.2%), aluminium (8.23%), and iron (5.63%). Getting at the metal would leave a dangerous excess of oxygen. Lots of important industrial elements are in the parts per thousand to parts per million range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

The majority of the universe is hydrogen and helium; most of what we see is now inaccessible due to the expansion of the universe and the speed of light; and even the stuff we can reach, because of the speed of light, requires a slow down to cubic growth at best (closer than galactic disk thickness or further than galactic isotropy); and even then that's for the species as a whole, as the speed of light eventually stops and single thing from growing at all.

Exponential growth has a way of reaching big numbers quickly. Now sure, it's still a while for the stuff we can access — I don't know if your percentage is correct, but looks about right, and at 2% annual growth (so: no VN replication ever) that's 1163 years for the crust, then another 233 for the rest of the planet — but that assumes we can use the whole thing and aren't reliant on some trace elements, e.g. carbon (which is 200ppm) or tin (2.3ppm) or selenium (0.05ppm of the crust, and if Wikipedia is right about five times higher, 0.25ppm, in a human body).
by cipherboy | 2025-05-30 08:01:20+00:00
GitHub's charts are inaccurate and a quick glance at the commit list would tell you that: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commits/main/ -- you have to cross some threshhold number of commits across all time in the repository to even appear in that dashboard.

https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/openbao-2/repos... is a more accurate view.

Yes, I contribute a lot, but in the last three months, we've seen substantial interest from other groups (thank you SAP, Reply, Adfinis, and G-Research OSS to name a few!) and have recently promoted a fresh group of committers.

Having worked at HashiCorp, I'm rather proud of what the community has built and proud of our ability to promote external maintainers. Open governance isn't easy for corporate contributions, but it is possible and I thank my employer for letting me try. :-)

Just look at the (narrowing) feature gap and critical improvements we've landed--transactions to name one--to see why I'm optimistic.
by dachris | 2025-05-30 08:03:08+00:00
Thanks for the pointer to bounded rationality, and the well-chosen words "are not capable of doing anything about". Yes, the doomer attention economy and also most media in general constantly bombard you with useless information, making decision-making very hard. What's the most important concern? The likely collapse of the pension system (here in Western Europe)? The war in Ukraine? Climate change? Trade wars? Pick you poison.

I'd add to the "mental health" recommendation to go low on such information, as it is mostly noise and non-actionable.

Awareness that in the long term, the tides might change, doesn't fall for me into this category. It's just a basic fact of life that it easily forgotten in the busyness of day.
by xg15 | 2025-05-30 08:03:30+00:00
> A person who made different decisions from somebody else could well feel resentful that somebody else got $40,000 and that they didn't. I don't have strong feelings against student loan forgiveness but I can understand why somebody would.

I honestly never understood that argument in the right's opposition to student loan forgiveness. It's always framed as giving some random segment of the population free money, but that's not what's happening. People made an investment, because the entire society, including the government told them at that time that this would be the right thing to do. Now it turns out, the investment wasn't just bad, the debt is also uncancellable and they will have little chance to repay it. Which means there is a high chance it will permanently reduce their chances in life and quality of life if it is not forgiven.
by cipherboy | 2025-05-30 08:04:27+00:00
If you have reproducers for behavioral differences, happy to take issues and PRs!

(Entities was discussed here: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/issues/1110#issuecomment-...)

Right, check out our vision post as well: https://openbao.org/blog/vision-for-namespaces/

By restructuring storage--which, may, yes, lead to some operational differences--we can add per-namespace seal mechanisms in our next release (v2.4.0 -- design doc https://github.com/openbao/openbao/issues/1170), giving encryption key separation. Layer that with per-namespace storage engines (or light partitions -- separate tables) and true horizontal _write_ scalability becomes a possibility.
by ghaff | 2025-05-30 08:05:01+00:00
Yeah, but it's not routine. I don't go into Walmart and quibble unlike some Middle Eastern bazaar. I probably do some negotiation at the car dealer (which, incidentally, many people on this board probably hate or with a job offer--ditto). And coupon stuff is mostly pretty low dollar; the grocery store flyers I get go in the trash.
by Perz1val | 2025-05-30 08:05:04+00:00
I've seen APIs for controlling those toys already a few times and it always surprises me that they're quite open. It's a thing I'd expect each device to come with a proprietary locked down app and nobody complaining about it publically, because that'd look.bad on them. Anyone can tell me why is that different? Is it because huge corporations are staying away from the market, thus they couldn't have ruined it?
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-30 08:06:20+00:00
What's the majority? There's so much difference in people. There's the IT/intellectual worker and there's blue collar workers, there's sport fans and book enthusiasts, there's religious communities and lgbt-friendly ones. All examples of dualities that are common to some degree but don't have so much overlap in interests.

In my experience social settings work a lot better when they're a bit more specific. Like, about something. And there's not really one majority that fits all. In the US even the two major parties are extremely polarised and yet they are about equal in size.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-05-30 08:08:01+00:00
An LLM ability to do a task is roughly correlated to the number of times that task has been done on the internet before. If you want to see the hype version, you need to write a todo web app in typescript or similar. So it's probably not something you can fix with prompts, but having a model with more focus on relevant training data might help.
by 0points | 2025-05-30 08:08:06+00:00
> When LLMs came out, and they now produce text that sounded like it was written by a native speaker (in major languages).

While the general syntax of the language seem to be somewhat correct now, the LLM's still don't know anything about those languages and keep mis-translating words due to its inherit insane design around english. A whole lot of concepts don't even exist in english so these translation oracles just can never do it successfully.

If i i read a few minutes of LLM translated text, there's always a couple of such errors.

I notice younger people don't see these errors because of their worse language skills, and the LLM:s enforce their incorrect understanding.

I don't think this problem will go away as long as we keep pushing this inferior tech, but instead the languages will devolve to "fix" it.

Languages will morph into a 1-to-1 mapping of english and all the cultural nuances will get lost to time.
by robertlagrant | 2025-05-30 08:09:12+00:00
> In a hospital with an anaesthesiologist?

Well, from the article:

> The men wore masks hooked up to ventilators as an anesthesiologist slowly introduced higher levels of xenon into their systems.

The doctor named in the article seems to be[0] the head of the Department of Anesthesiology at Limburg hospital.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Fries-3
by palata | 2025-05-30 08:09:25+00:00
Probably a naive question, but: if the passkey is synchronised between multiple devices, doesn't it just trivially render the signCount useless?

Say I have a passkey shared between my laptop and my smartphone. When I log in with the smartphone, the signCount is incremented and the new value is synchronised with the laptop, as suggested in the article.

Now say my passkey is compromised, and an attacker logs in from somewhere else. Won't the signCount just be incremented and synchronised with the smartphone and the laptop? How does signCount prevent that?
by sevg | 2025-05-30 08:09:58+00:00
Thanks for the response and calm rebuttal :)

I realise GitHub’s graph isn’t necessarily fully representative, but one personal concern is that I don’t know yet how long-term many of these new contributors will be.

That said, I also do applaud the efforts to build a community-driven fork in a similar vein to OpenTofu (which does seem to have critical mass now), and from the sounds of what you’re saying OpenBao is heading in the right direction too.
by bob1029 | 2025-05-30 08:09:59+00:00
Another angle here is configuration vs code.

De-duplication and normalization of software generally supports the idea of making your product configurable. Chasing de-dupe is a prerequisite part of the configuration complexity clock cycle. Things have to be somewhat normalized and centralized if the customer is going to be responsible for configuring them.

If you embrace duplication and using code as configuration, you can skip much of Mr. Bones' Wild Ride. This path is maybe preferable for certain B2B SaaS vendors. "We can't do custom code anymore" has been a really catastrophic take from management for some problems. Modern tools allow for "configuration" and its deployment to happen in very ergonomic, high-level ecosystems. Approaches like spinning up a common DLL and one project per customer means you don't have to worry so much. You have an opportunity to de-dupe, but it's not mandatory. Things that are truly common will be made known by their reference counts.
by bananapub | 2025-05-30 08:11:10+00:00
this is obviously horrific, but they are succeeding at their broader goal - making the entire US Federal apparatus untrustworthy and operated completely by selfish idiots who do whatever they want at any given time, with the only binding force the idiotic whims of the president. (almost all of - AOC and Bernie and a few others are notable exceptions) congress has already completely conceded this fact and continues to do so by not impeaching the president.

to me, it is extremely hard to imagine how this deliberate destruction can be undone in less than decades.
by foxglacier | 2025-05-30 08:11:14+00:00
I used to feel the same way as you but then I discovered I was wasn't really getting on well in female dominated groups after-all. It's all smiles and pleasantries on the surface but you're not one of them and aren't part of their gossip, but can quickly become the subject of it. If they really are trusting you with their gossip and speculations about other members then perhaps you truly can assimilate. There's also talking about sex which women do with each other far more readily than with men.
by kragen | 2025-05-30 08:11:52+00:00
Hmm, I see. I think that you can cheat quite a bit more than that, though, if your objective is only to fool human hearing (as your 48ksps and 20kHz numbers suggest): the humans can only use phase information to detect the directionality of sound up to a few hundred Hz, relying entirely on amplitude attenuation above that, presumably because their neurons run too slow. But maybe your objective is sonar beamforming or something.
by reconnecting | 2025-05-30 08:12:10+00:00
I like his choice: starting from the La Marzocco at home, through the Hasselblad camera, and all the scroll saw, drill press, etc. Every man's essentials.

But I was surprised by his choice of Bang & Olufsen for music. For example, his Sennheiser headphones are mostly for hearing sound as it is, while B&O always tries to 'enhance' sound in their own way. It doesn’t match much.
by palata | 2025-05-30 08:12:51+00:00
Hypotheses:

1. They don't know about RSS. Websites are often just something like WordPress, those who manage them don't actually "build" them.

2. They want to track the visitors. I think it's completely useless, but they want to know who clicks where and how many people open any particular job offer. There is no tracking with RSS.

3. Why would they care about the user experience? People should feel lucky to apply to their 15-interviews process.