MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JanneVee | 2025-05-05 11:59:10+00:00
I didn't say that I was any good, just that I enjoyed it.

I have a dog eared copy of Advanced Windows Debugging that I've used, but I've also have books around reverse engineering, disassembly and a little bit of curiosity and practice. I have also the .NET version which I haven't used as much. I also enjoyed the Vostokov books, even though there is a lack of editing in them.

Edit to add: It is not as much focus on usage of the tool as it is about understanding what is going on in the dump file, you are ahead in knowledge if you can do stack traces and look at exception records.
by sevensor | 2025-05-05 11:59:31+00:00
For me, the whole point of the resume is that the applicant has highlighted those parts of their experience they consider relevant. I then pick the points that look most interesting to me and go really deep in them in the interview. So, ok, leave that to an LLM I guess? But don’t be surprised if I go super deep on something you weren’t expecting.

Edit: like for instance, if you slip up and put C++ on your resume, I will drill you on it unmercifully. In my experience 19 out of 20 people who list C++ experience can’t compile their way out of a wet paper bag.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-05 11:59:52+00:00
You have to ask yourself why nobody wants the role. This role has only been a thing for 81 years and the USA is the only 1 dumb enough to ever try to do it.

The EU could do it; basically nobody else is in the ballpark to try. No chance though.

Everyone is looking at Nigeria. More than doubling their population by the end of the century. Extremely healthy population pyramid.

India is soon to be the new Asian superpower. Which sure is wrecking their neighbours with their slower urbanization that is avoiding the WW2 blight.

These 2 are the likely next world order candidates; if they play their cards right.
by plsbenice34 | 2025-05-05 11:59:52+00:00
There are several models.

Haveno already works by providing p2p multisignature escrow. With this design, you need to match with an individual and do a direct exchange. There is a Tor-based application

BasicSwap has another model with noncustodial atomic swaps and some sort of decentralised orderbook.

I expect that Serai will be much more effective than those. It will launch soon with a liquidity pool design, similar to Uniswap for Ethereum. With this model, other people can profit by providing liquidity for pools. It will be very easy for anyone to initiate a trade and do an exchange for a different currency from the pool. It will be incorporated into the most popular mobile app Cakewallet, so it should be accessible even for non-technical users and quickly gain adoption. I think this has the potential to provide an even more convenient, generally superior experience compared to centralised exchanges.
by pca006132 | 2025-05-05 12:00:06+00:00
There are many issues here. The lack of incentives is probably the most important one. For new professors (in research universities), good teaching is usually just a good thing to have, but it is not a deciding factor for their tenure. When they get their tenure, they probably have enough students, and they need to work hard to apply for funding and keep the students paid. Administrators care most about ranking, and teaching isn't really evaluated in the ranking. They just push the professors to do more research and apply for more funding.

It is also hard to evaluate university teaching because there are no benchmarks for that (compared with high school, for example), and it is hard to judge if teaching is good from student feedback. You can only know if someone fucked up or did really well, which are outliers.

There are other issues as well. Professor IMO is a ridiculous job, you are supposed to be an expert in the field, be a researcher, be a manager, be a teacher, be a salesman, all at the same time. There are people who can excel in all these, but these are probably just outliers. It doesn't help when PhD training doesn't train you to be a proper manager and teacher. While there are some teaching training, I think we are not really held to a high enough standard. E.g. One can pass the teaching course if they just show up and spend some time, even though their teaching is horrible.
by curiosity42 | 2025-05-05 12:00:43+00:00
My son just past 11, coded his first game when he was 9 (Snake) and then coded pac-man when he was 10. He is privileged enough to have all sorts of gadgets. But one thing he has on his wrists ALL the time is a cheap Casio watch we bought in Japan a couple of years ago. This watch has out-competed an Apple Watch and a cheap Android watch (with 4 G and dual-camera setup). Go figure!
by walleeee | 2025-05-05 12:01:45+00:00
I don't think form and function can be separated so cleanly in natural language. However you encode what's between your ears into text, you've made (re)presentational choices.

A piece of text does not have a single inherently correct interpretation. Its meaning is a relation constructed at run- (i.e. read-)time between the reader, the writer, and (possibly) the things the text refers to, that is if both sides are well enough aligned to agree on what those are.

Words don't speak, they only gesture.
by haswell | 2025-05-05 12:01:48+00:00
> you’re supposed to be able to make an image of an apple appear in your brain by thinking about it?

This is very similar to how I reacted when I started reading “When the Mind’s Eye is Blind” [0] one day.

Up to that point (I think I was 31 at the time) I had always believed that when people talked about “visualizing” something, it was just a figure of speech. I didn’t realize people meant it literally.

30+ years of situations suddenly clicked and it was like a bomb of realization went off in my brain.

- [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-the-minds-ey...
by KingOfCoders | 2025-05-05 12:02:44+00:00
Growing up in the 70s and 80s in Germany, I've been brainwashed by US movies and sitcoms, 90% of the things I've watched was from the US - Magnum P.I, Simon & Simon, The Fall Guy, Kojak, A-Team, Golden Girls, Mary Taylor Moore, Lou Grant, MacGyver, Knight Rider, Night Court, Family Ties, Miami Vice, The Wonder Years, Facts of Life, Love Boat, and on and on and on.

I know the US better than many parts of Germany.
by orwin | 2025-05-05 12:03:39+00:00
You probably won't. French cinema is americanizing. Good movies are still made, but 'les 3 mousquetaires' showed that most huge french productions are poor copies of 2000 era Ridley Scott (well, Ridley Scott himself make poor copies of his 2000-era films). 'Le Comte de Monte Cristo' was better (way better), but the colour filters,the lack of sound (or the music too loud and too epic), the useless sword fight and the 'reading letter' trick, all inspired by Hollywood action movies pushed it down from Good movie to 'almost as bad as Marvel' imho.

And the dialogs not inspired from the book are as expected, but that's modern cinema, not Hollywood in particular. That noone took the torch from Audiard or Prevert is a shame.
by shouldbeshippin | 2025-05-05 12:04:21+00:00
oh, the post text got cut off

so it's still in beta but it really helped me discover local events without googling/ explicitly searching

free and no signups required to use

for best results: specify topic + location (like jazz events in New York, medical conferences in Zurich, AI meetups online, etc.) and don't stack topics (so no queries like "sporting, tech and medical events in SF").

(edited: line breaks)
by ben_w | 2025-05-05 12:04:36+00:00
Ah, the difficulty of learning a second language as an adult.

Reminds me of the ways that my mediocre grasp of the German language still haunts me => Resurrects myself out of specific tracks in which my half-hearted clutch on the Alsatian tongue still plagues me.

Last year I inadvertently asked to borrow a fork-lift truck when I meant stapler. Still, at least my pronunciation is no longer Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYNXMWRdCx0
by echelon | 2025-05-05 12:04:46+00:00
They used to do all principal photography for half of all Marvel films in Atlanta. The industry has almost completely pulled out in just the past three years.

We had a booming, absolutely thriving industry for nearly two decades. People moved from LA to be here. We built hundreds of studios and sound stages. Now they're sitting empty.

Everyone is going to Serbia now. IATSE folks are having to leave the industry entirely.
by jorams | 2025-05-05 12:05:03+00:00
> I find that stuff like methadone is really quite strong, and I don't see how it isn't addictive. I figure it's to keep addicts alive while they get treatment instead of them getting a hot shot somewhere and ending up in a grave.

I am not an expert, but yes Methadone is addictive. It is drug replacement therapy, and Methadone is still a drug. The primary criticism of its use in addiction treatment is that it replaces dependence on one drug, like Heroin, with dependence on Methadone. A benefit of its use is indeed that it's a well regulated drug whose composition is known.

My understanding of why it helps in addiction treatment is that it triggers the same receptors as the drug it replaces, therefore satisfying the addiction, but it produces less intense effects and stays active for much longer, with less severe withdrawal symptoms spread out over a longer time period.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-05-05 12:06:16+00:00
> People can complain about "I want fully private transactions" - Okay then use cash.

Cash too is becoming more and more restricted over time. Large denominations are removed from circulation, transactions above certain threshold are made illegal, limits are put on cash withdrawals per day and per month.

Realistically the current trajectory of the EU is "less and less private transactions until there are none in a couple of decades".
by unsupp0rted | 2025-05-05 12:06:24+00:00
Not trolling. Having lived in many countries and had the TV on, this happens to be my unpopular opinion.

American movies are popular globally not because they're American but because they're so damn watchable/enjoyable/varied.

Granted that becomes less true every year, since Hollywood appears to be broken. Other countries haven't figured out how to pick up the slack though. 1994 Hollywood will likely never come again.
Why Apple still lets malformed media files reach decoders – and how to stop it
by jamweba | 2025-05-05 12:07:17+00:00
Proposed: a memory-safe, pre-decoder validator layer for media inputs (MP4, MOV, etc) that Apple could deploy without changing existing decoders.

Eliminates a class of zero-click exploits. No format breakage. No patching.

https://jam2we5b3a.medium.com/this-is-the-future-apple-should-already-be-shipping-054c69d78e50
Buy bundles vs. Monthly recurring pricing for my first SaaS
by Link2chase | 2025-05-05 12:07:56+00:00
I'm launching an AI-powered web app that helps job seekers craft responses to application questions by analyzing their resume and the job description. As this is my first SaaS product and I'm targeting the Nigerian market (a price-sensitive region), I'm struggling with the pricing model: Option 1: Monthly subscription ($5/month) with a set number of generated answers Option 2: Pay-as-you-go bundles ($3 for X answers, no expiration) My concerns:

Job hunting is typically sporadic rather than a continuous activity Nigerian users may hesitate to commit to recurring payments Local purchasing power must be considered for pricing

I'd appreciate insights from those who:

Have launched SaaS products in emerging markets Have experimented with hybrid pricing models Can share data on which model drives better customer retention and revenue

What pricing approach would you recommend for this type of product in this market? Are there creative alternatives I should consider?
by exiguus | 2025-05-05 12:09:07+00:00
> underestimate how dark the tech-bros vision

When ic the "German spy agency labels AfD as ‘confirmed rightwing extremist’ force". Which will now lead to the removal of AfD members and sympathizers from the civil service. I at least, have a little hope for Germany e.g. Europe. A little hope that the End of the Capitalist era will not end in fascism and there is another way now open for discus involving not only elites (aka tech-bros and old white male).
by melenaboija | 2025-05-05 12:09:37+00:00
I don't think they understand the damage all of this is doing to brand America.

Since the first Trump administration, young people in Western Europe have increasingly lost their idealization of the United States. I'm 43 and moved to the US ten years ago and I feel like I'm part of the last generation that still wanted to move here. Highly qualified people I know in Europe no longer even consider coming here.
by echelon | 2025-05-05 12:09:43+00:00
This is actually surprisingly a pro-union move by Trump.

If you aren't aware, they've shipped most IATSE jobs to Serbia since 2023.

They used to shoot most Disney and Netflix shows in LA and Atlanta. Now they're happening in Eastern Europe. They fly the cast out and film with crews that don't have labor laws or unions and that are an order of magnitude cheaper.

IATSE members have been forced to leave the industry, sell their homes, and move out of California. There are a few holdouts, but it's likely they'll have to exit the industry too.

Once that capacity goes, it'll never come back.

Studios are sitting vacant. CBRE is going to come in and turn them all into office parks and mixed use.
by overu589 | 2025-05-05 12:10:36+00:00
Those lingering around here do not use silicon or wires, their technology is biotech thus it would be like discovering the cuddlefish. What would humanity’s leading minds do if they discovered a … cuddlefish?

Yes their biotechnology does fusion, and can out run our fleetest fast, yet it is still like the cuddlefish, not a metal can with wires and knobs.

They use their thoughts for communications and control, good luck figuring that one out! Oh, and they use quantum entanglement at a distance (not radio waves or sound for that matter) which you still deny even possible.

Good luck!
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-05 12:12:25+00:00
They are not, yet.

Assuming there will be a free and fair election in which the Democrats win, it would be a sensible move to repeal the Hague Invasion Act, ratify the Rome Statute and refer all of the 47th's admin's key figures there - that avoids any possible issues with the Supreme Court.

Additionally, it would restore a bit of global confidence in the ICC and America's credibility on the global stage as well... something sorely needed after not even a few months of this administration.
by jamweba | 2025-05-05 12:12:35+00:00
Most media decoders still process unvalidated files — which keeps zero-click attack surfaces wide open.

This write-up outlines a minimal architectural fix: a structural validator that intercepts files before decoding begins.

It needs no decoder rewrites It's format-agnostic (MP4, MOV, PNG, etc.) It works with existing delivery paths (AirDrop, Mail, Safari) And it could be deployed today

Curious what others think: Why hasn’t this already been adopted? Would Apple (or anyone) ship it?
by echelon | 2025-05-05 12:12:41+00:00
Everyone in this thread is reading surface level media summaries.

This is 1000% pro-union.

IATSE workers have been decimated by the move of productions to Serbia since 2023.

LA and Atlanta film productions have all but collapsed since the offshoring of production. Serbian crews work without unions for much cheaper than local IATSE members.

This is designed to save IATSE and domestic American production.
by jzb | 2025-05-05 12:12:56+00:00
I wish people would stop with the “Trump doesn’t understand $thing” stuff.

It doesn’t matter whether Trump understands $thing. Pretending that he’s acting in good faith to make things better, but is somehow failing because he doesn’t get X, Y, or Z falls right into the trap. He’s trying to destroy American “soft power”. It doesn’t interest him.

Neither does a good economy, schools, NATO, etc. All of these things are being destroyed or mangled on purpose.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-05 12:13:45+00:00
Given how much modern actors and related are freaking out about AI (despite holding "egalitarian" social views), I'm more than happy to see them destroyed. Very bad for US soft-power but great for helping gut hollywood faster.

Huge amounts of the top brass of hollywood are disgusting. Tom Cruise and the rest of Scientologies leadership should be in prison right now, and that's just one tiny example of the sea of shit found in hollywood.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-05-05 12:14:19+00:00
> If you use Linux + KDE, you can still use any microphone or headphone, many at the same time, or in whatever mode you want.

This doesn't really seem to respond to the problem. The problem is that I'd like to use a single bluetooth device that includes earpieces and a microphone. That doesn't work, because of the headphone-headset mode dichotomy. As I replied to another comment, using multiple devices would be a solution to the problem. It wouldn't be an example of the problem that I want solved.

Bluetooth is apparently incapable of simply delivering an audio stream to the earpieces while accepting one from the microphone. This is a baffling design. The assumption appears to be that there will never be more than one source of audio for output. But that's crazy.
by perihelions | 2025-05-05 12:14:32+00:00
Does the First Amendment preclude the US from imposing prohibitive taxes on media?

It'd be clearly unconstitutional to ban them outright; so, where and how's that line drawn?

late edit: I just want to note the text of POTUS' announcement includes this: "It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!" The overtly expressed motive here is animus towards the content of the speech (not some content-neutral factor like trade balances).
by Zambyte | 2025-05-05 12:15:52+00:00
I have spent 2025 only taking my phone out of my sock drawer if I am going somewhere I don't know how to navigate to without GPS. It's fine. The biggest things I missed were not having a camera, which I remedied by buying a point and shoot which is much nicer anyways, and not having a clock, which I remedied with a watch.
by kemotep | 2025-05-05 12:16:16+00:00
It’s been really interesting watching Trump II dismantle programs established by Trump I.

Trade deals, cybersecurity initiatives, election integrity programs, and this, the Artemis program created by Trump’s administration in 2017.

We are betting the farm on SpaceX now. All in on Starship, throwing away the only component of the return to the moon that was proven to actually work. If the next IATF ends in RUD then Starship probably isn’t getting to the Moon any faster than when it was part of Artemis.
by dagw | 2025-05-05 12:16:31+00:00
I know the US better than many parts of Germany

I read an article years ago from a lawyer (might have been a judge) complaining that, thanks to US TV and movies, people in Sweden know more about how the US justice system works than the Swedish system. Far too many people just fall back on their US TV knowledge of how they think courts work and that they keep having to explain to the people that, no that's not how things works in Sweden.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-05 12:16:53+00:00
This is a heavily gendered phenomenon even though few will talk about it. Women take easily 10x the number of photos as men with their phones (likely underestimating this ratio).

This is a frequent issue today in romance, dating, etc. Men have trash photos and are structurally bad at taking them. Women judge everything today based on pictures. "Camera eats first" is my motto now when I go out with my wife or any other group with significant amounts of women.
by rlkf | 2025-05-05 12:17:11+00:00
> The real problem is acceptance of non-word/latex papers

Some scientific journals, which only provides a Word template, require you to print to PDF to submit, then ships this PDF to India, where a team recreates the look of the submission in LaTeX, which is then used to compose the actual journal. I wish this was hyperbole. For these journals, you can safely create a LaTeX-template looking _almost_ the same, and get away with it.
by CivBase | 2025-05-05 12:17:13+00:00
> A typical belief among students is that classes are a series of hurdles to be overcome; at the end of this obstacle course, they shall receive a degree as testament to their completion of these assignments.

IMO the core problem is that in many cases this typical belief holds true.

I went to university to get a degree for a particular field of jobs. I'd generously estimate that about half of my classes actually applied to that field or jobs. The other half were required to make me a more "well rounded student" or something like that. But of course they were just fluff to maximize my tuition fees.

There was no university that offered a more affordable program without the fluff. After all, the fluff is a core part of the business model. But there isn't much economic opportunity without a diploma so students optimize around the fluff.
by sombragris | 2025-05-05 12:18:39+00:00
What I'd like would be to have GRUB docs that are understandable enough for regular users and their use cases, rather than just eye candy. For example, right now most users start with a Windows install. What can they do if they want GRUB to handle a dual boot? (BTW, disabling os-prober due to security reasons might be the right call, but it's not helpful at all to newbies wishing to dual boot).
by akudha | 2025-05-05 12:19:49+00:00
When it comes to trade and geopolitics, I don't think countries would care about morality or authoritarian rule etc. As long as they are able to protect themselves against China's expansion views, countries will happily do business with the Chinese. They just wouldn't care what China does at home or elsewhere, as long as they aren't affected. I can't think of any country that has such high moral standards that they would give up cheap goods and a 1.4 Billion people market, because of Taiwan or uyghur situation

In other words there is only profit/loss and strength/weakness, not right/wrong when it comes to global politics. There might be some exception cases like material support for Ukraine, but that is limited. Even in that case, there is a bit of selfishness - countries like Poland know Ukraine is acting as a buffer, if they don't help the Ukrainians, they themselves will be next on Russia's list
by GoldBearApp | 2025-05-05 12:20:06+00:00
A few years ago, Marc Lou posted a simple product on HN that went viral and kickstarted his indie hacking journey. That post stuck with me.

I’ve finally built something of my own: Mood2Video — an app which provide best videos for your mood. Try all categories !

I'm still working a full-time job as a .NET & React dev, but this is my first real step into building in public. Hoping to follow a similar path and learn as I go. I’ve some AI projects in my mind. Do stay tuned guys ;)

Would love your feedback!
by xtiansimon | 2025-05-05 12:20:13+00:00
> “…memories fade, how they disappear…”

Photos have a double effect. Look at a photo, and your memory is stimulated. Recall something from your childhood (for example) and there is a good chance your memory is a recollection of the photo and not the sensation of experience.

It’s funny how older generations had fewer photos, in general. Photography was a commitment and not an afterthought.

How many times have I seen on Facebook someone’s picture of a dear relative—out of focus, poor composition, terrible color. And yet it’s cherished image.

I also like movies more than I like sports.
by bumby | 2025-05-05 12:20:22+00:00
I brought up that I think the root problem is employers in a different comment, so I’m not missing that point.[1] The distinction is that I don’t think it’s a dichotomous problem. While colleges may not be the root problem, they can still be a contributor to the problem. (Besides, if an employer is to recognize a MOOC, that course completion has to be documented, which means it’s just another version of credential)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43890682