MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aryehof | 2025-05-14 06:15:06+00:00
While I would never do a take-home assignment for a job, I think your expectations are out of line with the current buyers market that has hundreds or thousands of applications for every position.

Your solution is the same old thing thousands of others could produce. They want more than a programmer that knows some languages, tools and libraries.

I think they might give you 10 more minutes of their consideration if you simply produced a command-line program in Go that used sockets to talk protocols to servers.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-05-14 06:15:07+00:00
So, the way I make coffee, and as far as I'm concerned the easiest and most versatile way to make it:

Needed:

1. One small to medium aluminum or steel pot (any will do, just hopefully narrow enough for an easy boil)

2. Obviously, coffee, preferably freshly ground by you or some seller, but bagged, ground coffee is just fine if it's a good brand.

3. Distilled water. You could use tap water, but damn do I hope you live in one of those few places where the stuff from the tap is great stuff, because it often isn't and tastes like lead-lined ass. Otherwise, any distilled, filtered water will make a huge difference on final coffee quality.

4. Heat Source of some kind. It could be a gas stove, electric stove, induction stove, campfire or even a nuclear reactor core, as long as it can boil your pot water.

5. Your favorite cup, or any cup really, preferably one thick enough to trap heat for at least a bit.

6. Something for filtering prepared coffee. Could be a tiny kitchen sieve, a spare coffee filter, or even a (preferably very clean) sock. I've used them all.

7. Spoon.

Process:

1. Pour water into your (preferably clean) little metal pot, measure out how many cups worth you want.

2. Heat said water until it boils.

3. Take water down from boil and just as it stops bubbling, toss in tablespoons of coffee. I prefer one tablespoon per cup's worth of water, but you can play with this based on strength preference.

4. Let sit for 5 minutes.

5. Serve yourself some fine damn coffee by pouring it into your cup through the little filtering screen of choice (see above), whether you're at home, on some mountains, or inside a nuclear reactor..
by const_cast | 2025-05-14 06:15:15+00:00
I wouldn't even considering that bullying, it's just an observation.

When people with this guy's mentality get into power, they are awful to work for.

Do you want to work 12/h a day for the same pay? No, right? Okay, then everyone is on the same page. I don't think we need to advocate against ourselves in search of some principle or some type of moral high ground. It's not a virtue to be self-destructive.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-05-14 06:15:40+00:00
These are time-lagged processes. According to your version of things,

- $UNPLEASANT_JOB is costing too much! Let us start making robots

- Let us continue to bear the cost of paying $UNPLEASANT_JOB a high wage for the decade+ it takes to develop the automation for that task.

Nope, here is what will happen:

- $UNPLEASANT_JOB is costing too much! Let us figure out how to automate this task. In the meanwhile, let us dump the wages for this role. Otherwise, our company closes down.

- 10-15 years later, the same automation needs to be cheaper than the dumped wage for it to be feasible, which is a completely different challenge. First of all, the automation has to be cheaper than your "high enough wage", which is more than you can say for robotics products today.
by xivzgrev | 2025-05-14 06:15:42+00:00
From a utility perspective not really. You need a safe comfortable place to sleep, a clean bathroom, maybe a TV, some space for your stuff and that’s basically it.

The experience is OUT THERE, not where you are staying.

So yea I’m looking for the cheapest place that meets the bar. Sometimes it’s Airbnb but usually it’s a hotel.
I built a physics-based sheep battle royale to unwind–and it kind of exploded
by Damon-Q | 2025-05-14 06:16:29+00:00
Last month, I needed a break—from work, from deadlines, from reality. So I started tinkering with a silly idea: what if battle royale, but with exploding sheep?

That late-night thought spiraled into Crazy Cattle 3D, an indie game where 100 woolly rams slam, slide, and detonate across three absurd terrains—from Irish hills to Icelandic icefields to volcanic New Zealand chaos.

The twist? It’s all physics-based. Every movement, collision, and launch is calculated, making gameplay more about momentum and timing than reflexes. Most players get knocked out in the first 30 seconds. And 90% hit "play again" instantly.

It’s weird, chaotic fun, but also taught me a lot—about game loops, 3D collision, and how something stupidly simple (like sheep rolling downhill) can turn into an addictive gameplay mechanic.

If you need a laugh—or want to see how far one person can stretch the concept of "battle royale"—give it a spin. No installs. Just chaos: https://3d-crazy-cattle.org
by robocat | 2025-05-14 06:16:42+00:00
I read The Great Gatsby recently for the first time and didn't enjoy it even slightly, probably because of its focus on status. Or maybe because I'm an engineer type from New Zealand? I decided to read the book because it's a classic, and occasionally I find a classic I absolutely love (often when I start with low expectations). Loved Catch 22, love anything by Steinbeck (although I would generally avoid US classic books - maybe due to my colonial background).
by lazyeye | 2025-05-14 06:16:46+00:00
If you scroll down on this page you can see the historical trend for the latino demographic:-

https://www.as-coa.org/articles/how-latinos-voted-2024-us-pr...

Note in the 2020 election more than double the number of Latinos voted Democrat over Republican. With the massive levels of illegal immigration under the Biden open border policy, the demographic voting shift would have likely happened in the medium term as the millions of illegals slowly merged into the legal population (from 5 years onwards). And of course, within a year or two the Dems would have been clamouring to have the illegals made into citizens.

I think the Dems thought they could get away with it because they had enough of the media on their side (CNN, NYT etc) to carry water for them. But with podcasts, social media etc the media landscape has changed drastically and they weren't able to control the narrative the way they have previously. And this was particularly catastrophic given Kamala Harris was such a poor candidate seemingly pathologically incapable of saying anything beyond rehearsed talking points (and as a consequence largely avoided podcasts).

We can come back in year and everything could be amazing but based on what I've seen so far, I'm sure you would come up with some tortured logic as to why up is down, black is white and it's the worst economy ever etc...
by alephnerd | 2025-05-14 06:16:49+00:00
Might show the value of a J10C and the Chinese EW suite, but also showed the failure of Chinese AD and the success of Indian-Israeli-Russian AD cooperation and the Indian Ballistics Missile Program.

There are absolutely some stressed conversations happening in France about SPECTRA, because the rest of the IAF uses a hybrid Indian-Israeli datalink but not in the Rafale yet.

Also they found an unexploded PL-15 near my ancestral village. There were a decent number of those found all across the JK, HP, PB region.
by strken | 2025-05-14 06:17:27+00:00
I know I'm interviewing them. That's why we need to talk.

If they wanted to hire me enough to interview me, but at the end of a half-day of interviewing I'm going to walk away without a job, then they need to rewrite their position description so I know not to apply, deal with their morale problem, or directly ask me how much PL/pgSQL I've done. We both stand to benefit from talking about how the interview went.
by danpalmer | 2025-05-14 06:17:34+00:00
> How do you know that interviewees aren't spending more time on it?

In some cases we roughly timed it, scheduling an email for a time the candidate wanted and asked them to return it 3 hours later. In some cases we just treated it as an honour system. We made it clear that the task was intended to take about that much time and that spending more time was not allowed/encouraged.

In reality, we found that good candidates took ~1-2h, and in some cases where candidates spent a lot longer and owned up to it, we found no improvements. In one case a candidate submitted at 3h and then again at 8, and we marked the 8h version 1 mark lower.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-05-14 06:18:01+00:00
Hotels also provide tons of variation in quality. Just look up hotels in, say, Bangkok or Ho Chi Minh City where the options are much more than just the typical Western chains. Or compare the many non-chain "motels" in North America.

I think what you mean is "chains" tend to be pretty consistent. Which, yeah, that's always been the main value prop of a chain. You go to McDonald's in Tunisia and you have a pretty good idea what you're going to get.
by zigzag312 | 2025-05-14 06:18:11+00:00
You are ignoring data location and software installs.

Having all your data always with you stored locally (on your phone) is simpler than syncing and more private than cloud.

One OS with all your software. No need to install same app multiple times on different devices. Don't need to deal with questions like, for how many devices is my license valid for. However, apps would need to come with a reactive UI. No more separate mobile and desktop versions.

Example, you take a photos on your phone, dock it at your desk or laptop shell, and edit them comfortably on a big screen, with an app you bought and installed once. No internet connection is required.

A docking station could be more than just display and input devices. It could contain storage for backing up your data from the phone. Or powerful CPU and GPU for extended compute power (you would still use OS and apps/games on your phone with computations being delegated to more powerful HW).

This could replicate many things cloud offers today (excluding collaboration). No need to deal with an online account for your personal stuff. IMO, it would probably be less mystical than cloud to most users.
by rspoerri | 2025-05-14 06:19:06+00:00
This is not universally a problem. In switzerland you receive a letter with a qr code, which with your username/password can activate a app which does a 2nd factor authentication, but it also requres to scan an qr code from thd web every time you login.

Setting it up is a pain, also it‘s impossible to transfer to another device without the original barcode.

But it seems pretty convinient for me an very secure. Login with account-id and password, scan a qr-code with the app and verify the login in it.

Still phone communication is very insecure…
by avidiax | 2025-05-14 06:19:21+00:00
Yeah, it's a bit surprising that these bill validators are so robust, given that most security systems are a game of raising the difficulty just high enough to be less attractive than other criminal opportunities. It might be that two detection methods was too easy to subvert, so a third is added, and this makes it excessively secure.

Certainly, the tubular lock on most vending machines is vulnerable to a variety of attacks, so, if a criminal wants a snickers bar and maybe a lockbox of cash, buying a tubular lock pick is far more expedient than trying to counterfeit bills.

I am wondering if the author maybe didn't check whether 2 of 3 factors would be sufficient. It could be that the bill validators allow 1 of 3 factors to be out of spec to increase acceptance rate.
by const_cast | 2025-05-14 06:19:55+00:00
There's this strange belief that work (labor) isn't like other types of goods and that a good pay should result in above-and-beyond performance. Rather than that pay simply just being the cost of labor.

When eggs went up from 4 dollars to 8, nobody expected them to taste twice as good. That's just what they cost now. But when developers go from 80,000 to 160,000 on average or something (arbitrary numbers), people do expect them to work twice as hard. Otherwise, they're abusing their employer. As if employers even could be abused.
by keiferski | 2025-05-14 06:20:10+00:00
Check out Warsaw, Poland. Public transit is excellent, clean, and basically gets you anywhere via bus, tram, subway, or one of 4+ ridesharing apps. Bike lane coverage is also pretty good. It's obviously an order of magnitude smaller than Shanghai, but so are most Western cities.

Good overview of the system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kn2tL51bBs&t=8s
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-14 06:20:43+00:00
It sounds like that is the true issue here (which the unit being an Airbnb is exacerbating to be sure). If it was a normal home, and it happened to have owners who were assholes and didn't care about the neighborhood disturbance, you would be in just as bad of a situation (probably worse tbh). The fact that it is being turned over for lots of short term rentals makes it more likely that you'll get asshole tenants there at some point, but ultimately to fix this the people of Toronto would have to pass noise ordinances and make the police enforce them.
by bruce511 | 2025-05-14 06:21:14+00:00
>> Does it make sense to, then, choose different books - books you can appreciate and understand more in high school?

I guess it depends on the goal. My opinion is that reading hard books at school simply turns people off reading completely. If the reading is fun there's more chance students will carry on reading.

So if the goal is "teach kids that reading is fun. So they do it. Which means their ability to read goes up" , then yes, the books should be more fun.

(We read a Spike Milligan book, which certainly engaged the class more than Wuthering Heights did.)

On the other hand if the goal is to understand "literature", then books with themes and character development and so on is necessary. And of course can put some kids off reading for life.
by OccamsMirror | 2025-05-14 06:21:30+00:00
Had a similar experience where a Sydney AirBnB listed their property as air-conditioned. Had a misting fan. That doesn't quite cut it as "air conditioning" in 45C weather. Had the same outcome as you. Ended up doing a chargeback on my card and got banned from the platform.

Wouldn't go back anyway.
by al_borland | 2025-05-14 06:21:32+00:00
I’ve always been an advocate of living below one’s means, and well bellow in the case of high earners.

Maybe it’s my impostor syndrome talking, but I’ve always been paranoid about losing my job, so I’ve tried to avoid lifestyle inflation like the plague. I’ll still splurge on things here and there, but they are one time payments, and don’t lock me into anything years or decades of monthly payments that would be a problem for in this kind of scenario. I’m always trying to mitigate risk.
by albertgt | 2025-05-14 06:21:56+00:00
I love this book.

When I first was forced to read it in high school, I didn’t get it, didn’t understand it, didn’t have the emotional capacity or life experience to grasp it.

I re-read it as an adult after experiencing heartbreak, it really resonated. I could understand what Gatsby was going through and it became my #1 favorite book (even though I prefer sci-fi novels)

Fitzgerald’s prose in Gatsby is also almost perfect. The book is so short because he kept cutting it down and cutting it down, editing away, chipping and refining it. What’s fascinating too is nearly every sentence is beautiful prose. Most people write and it sounds like jumbled nuggets of stuff. Fitzgerald worked to get it to sound beautiful. It is an amazing work of art for me.
by nowittyusername | 2025-05-14 06:22:40+00:00
Its important to remember, that whatever the story behind deepseek, it's hard to believe they accomplished this feat with the same or more resources then the american companies. Which is to say, its safe to assume that at most, they had fewer resources then the american counterparts but created a model that is just as good. So regardless of the narrative, they deserve respect for that, let alone for the amount of open source information and weights they provided.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-14 06:22:41+00:00
Yeah, I spent the whole time reading this article wondering "has this man lost his mind?". Airbnb works great for what it is. But nobody wants it to be an "everything" platform, and all that the CEO is accomplishing is wasting money chasing ventures that have no real chance of success. And that's if those ventures don't cause their actual business to suffer because resources are being spent elsewhere.
by silisili | 2025-05-14 06:23:21+00:00
> In most companies, there is specific company policy that prohibits providing feedback to candidates. There is literally no upside for these companies to provide feedback to candidates that they reject

This is the long and short of it.

In the US at least, discrimination laws are expansive. You can -very- easily end up saying something that violates this and putting your company at risk, no matter how good hearted you were attempting to be.
by const_cast | 2025-05-14 06:24:38+00:00
I don't think this is even close to true.

Most of my family are Trumpers, anti-vax, and covid-deniers.

They will believe any asshat with a microphone and access to Spotify with next to zero thought. They explicitly DO NOT believe any reliable source. Their level of belief is inverse to how reliable the source is.

If a rando with no background in anything says it, it's reliable. If a random doctor says it, it could be reliable but probably not. If multiple doctors say it, then it's definitely not true.

It's manifested at this point into full science denial. I have one family member who won't take their high blood pressure medicine anymore because they think it's causing the hypertension. Sigh...
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-05-14 06:24:39+00:00
The article says

> "To quote Bök himself: ... It needs no oxygen to live."

And I assumed that this means that it's anaerobic.

Out of curiosity I went to Wikipedia to read up about this bug (1)

And it says:

> It is an obligate aerobic chemoorganoheterotroph, i.e., it uses oxygen to derive energy from organic compounds in its environment.

Are they both correct? Can anyone clarify?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
by seydor | 2025-05-14 06:25:03+00:00
They should have launched services for hosts instead. Airbnbers interface with cleaning / repairpeople, not masseuses. They could even expand to construction and interior design as so many people are building and converting airbnbs. They could take advantage of their synergies there.

They are bringing more "amateur professionals" along with the hosts by adding all those services. this is a big, unruly crowd of half-assed servicepeople
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-14 06:26:35+00:00
> The future of Airbnb was and always will be using that option as entry point into your life at home.

The future of Airbnb was and always will be a place to book stays in someone's home. These other things they are doing are a bad joke that will at best waste money for no gain, and at worst will cause their actual business to suffer. Trying to be all things to all people is idiocy, stick to what you're good at.
by degamad | 2025-05-14 06:26:37+00:00
The project's README mentions that it uses tiktoken[0], which is a separate project created by OpenAI.

tiktoken downloads token models the first time you use them, but it does not mention that. It does cache the models, so you shouldn't see more of those connections, if I'm understanding the code correctly.

[0] <https://github.com/openai/tiktoken>
by jajko | 2025-05-14 06:28:05+00:00
Hotels try to milk parents with kids and either force you to take basically another booking, or have few 2-bedroom (or 1 bedroom and living room = parental bedroom) ones, often for almost double the price. Most were designed in another era, and it shows - booked rooms are basically just caves for sleeping.

We only use such if there are no other options in given area or if we want food prepared (this quickly becomes another chore with small kids).

I've never seen a well rated airbnb place with many reviews being bad. They may not be stellar in some aspect, ie small maintenance may be lacking but otherwise having a full kitchen with wash machine is pretty amazing for any type of trip, and one has a wide variety of locations and prices. Also it allows you to experience the place a bit more, compared to hyper sterile and uniform hotel experiences.

Lets not forget airbnbs would never become a thing if they werent cheaper than hotels (or at least provided much better experience at similar price).
by ogurechny | 2025-05-14 06:28:29+00:00
One might think that “moral obscenity” happens when “people staffing those systems” get their jobs and pretend that their responsibility is now delegated to some imaginary authority from the contemporary tales (which is not carved from wood or stone in our enlightened times).

In other words, such dramas are fake, and smokescreen the unclean consciousness. Remember the story about digital spying clerks from US complaining about being lent to Saudi Arabia, not because it was against their principles or laws, but because they were not paid “well enough”?
by NBJack | 2025-05-14 06:29:14+00:00
I'd say take another look. The beam has a LOT of issues. The One basically says "give me a signal, I'll project it in 2D and track it with 3DoF." Its smooth, and while it can drift a little (it is only an accelerometer), it is stable for me.

I wear glasses with mine, yet I still find it surprisingly crisp for text in ultra-wide mode. I'd say it is a fairly unobtrusive experience. It also helps that the nose pads don't dig into my skin.

That said, if a Quest Pro isn't good enough, I hesitate to recommend it. The FOV is certainly smaller on the One.
by const_cast | 2025-05-14 06:29:21+00:00
> ID card is super cheap and opening the office issuing it on saturdays is not rocket science.

Right, okay, but when the voter ID laws were creating for the explicit purpose of suppressing voters, why would you do this? Surely, you would want to make sure the office is closed on Saturday then.

Which, in the US, this was the explicit purpose of voter ID laws in the past. And, when proponents of Voter ID are confronted with this, they do absolutely nothing to soothe our concerns. They deny, deny, deny, but they don't say what they're gonna do to make sure everyone who should vote is able to.

That makes me, and other liberals, very nervous. We understand these laws had bad intentions in the past and when that's all just... hand-waved away... one begins to wonder what the intention of the laws are now.
by mattlondon | 2025-05-14 06:29:27+00:00
What does that mean? The links doesn't help explain it much?

In the UK/London there are some bus routes where you just stick your arm out and the bus will stop to get you where you stand ("hail and ride") and equally you can just ring a bell when onboard and the driver stops as soon as there is somewhere convenient to let you off. The route is fixed though.

Is it that sort of thing?
by keiferski | 2025-05-14 06:29:29+00:00
I once rode the bus across LA. Years and dozens of countries later, it is still probably the single worst public transit experience I've ever had.

It wasn't because of the bus itself, or the routes, or anything like that. But because the willingness of people to tolerate one passenger screaming, threatening others, refusing to move for a handicapped woman, etc.

American public transit is a cultural problem, not an infrastructure one.
by countWSS | 2025-05-14 06:29:40+00:00
LLMs are specifically trained to reject all fringe beliefs and use authorative sources. Post-training usually covers this and a system prompt the rest of issues. If hypotheticallt a LLM discovered that there is contradiction and an alternative viewpoint is more likely, it will still use the guidelines from post-training and system prompt, to deliver the "official party line": it can be anything from "current year cultural values are inviolable axioms" to "CCP doctrine is the ultimate truth", with LLM hallucinating any filler to get into logical gaps.