MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by majormajor | 2025-05-05 15:07:09+00:00
There are a lot of people who complain about it being hard to make friends as an adult.

Products exist for this, but I'm not aware of any that have hit a home run. I think the biggest barrier is closing this gap: I personally want more friends since I don't have the social skills to reliably go proactively make a friend randomly out of a newfound acquaintance or friend of a friend. So I can go to a meetup, say, of people with similar interests. But I would need the aforementioned social skills - that I don't have - to convert those people into recurring "real" friends. Dating apps work better here because there's a much higher incentive for me to put myself forward in a way I'm not otherwise comfortable with. Vs "eh I have some friends already, I don't want to be awkward or embarrass myself."

I become increasingly convinced that it's not a problem that can be reliably directly intermediated for you. The best friendships I have that I was introduced to electronically came from recurring discussions around a shared interest on a site or forum or channel that then became a friendship. Trying to force things to go the other way is far harder. It either needs to be indirect OR you need to have an extremely high level of social skills (in which case you aren't likely to need this app in the first place).

Those recurring online discussions? That's social skill practice. That's putting in your reps. The Reddit or HN format is one of the harder ones for that; there are many better ones, though. But ultimately it all comes down to work and practice. In the same way that there isn't a pill or phone accessory that will build your muscles or teach you another language without putting in the work.
by atoav | 2025-05-05 15:07:11+00:00
A fundamental problem that plagues many security solutions can be understood by analogy:

Imagine a incredibly secure castle. There are thick unclimbable walls, moats, trap rooms, everything compartmentalized, an attacker that gains control of one section didn't achieve much in terms of the whole castle, the men in each section are carefully vetted and are not allowed to have contact or family relationships with men stationed in other sections, so they cannot be easily bribed or forced to open doors. Everything is fine.

But the king is furious, the attackers shouldn't control any part of the castle! As a matter of principle! The architects reassure the king that everything is fine and there is no need to worry. The king is unconvinced, fires them and searches for architects that do his bidding. So the newlyfound architects scramble together and come up with secret hallways and tunnels, connecting all parts of the castle so the defenders can clear the building in each section. The special guards who are in charge of that get high priviledges, so they could even fight attackers who reach the kings bed room. The guard is also tasked to keep in touch with the attackers so they are extra prepared for when they attack and understand their mindset inside out.

The king is pleased, the castle is safe. One night one of those guards turns against the king and the attackers are sneaked into the castle. The enemy is suddenly everywhere and they kill the king. A battle that should have been fought in stages going inwards is now fought from the inside out and the defenders are suddenly trapped in the places that were meant for the very enemies they are fighting. The kingdom has fallen.

The problem with many security solutions – including AV solutions – is that you give the part of your system that comes into contact with the "enemy" the keys to your kingdom, usually with full unchecked priviledges (how else to read everything that is going on in the system). Actual security is the result of strict compartmentalization and a careful and continous vetting of how each section can be abused and leveraged once it has fallen. Just like in mechanical engineering where each new moving part can add a new failure point, in security adding a new priviledged thing adds a lot of new attack surface that wasn't previously there. And if that attack surface gives you the keys to the kingdom it isn't the security solution, it is the target.
by _bin_ | 2025-05-05 15:07:24+00:00
This is a weirdly defensive answer. I didn't attack you personally, I brought up well-founded risks.

Your suggestions, while interesting, don't remove these risks. Yes, certain types of abuse make it worse: dosing higher, polydrug abuse, hot environments, and dehydration are all ways to damage your brain further. However, use of MDMA in an ideal sense probably still causes some level of damage.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16472832/

2mg/kg dose, so ~160mg for an adult human. More importantly rat to human is usually a 6ish HED factor so that’d be <30mg. In reality metabolism, brain volume, etc all matter but this is not an even remotely safe drug.

This isn't a "purely theoretical exercise", most of those are established mechanisms of amphetamine toxicity. This isn't "listing possible mechanisms", this is sharing salient info of risks of which possible abusers (given the nature of the thread and discussion so far) should be aware.

I'm sure as heck not "ranting out behaviors that would scare a layperson". Most of what I listed is pretty comprehensible with a grasp of high school chem and bio. Most of the information for this is freely available online. The information we have should scare a layman out of use, and probably someone with a greater background, too.

Whatabout-ing with sleep deprivation or similar doesn't make sense to me either. Did I say that was good or healthy? Bad things stack. Your body doesn't keep a record where it says "you've accumulated 10% damage from an un-fun cause like exhaust or sleep deprivation, so now you get to experience 5% damage from a fun cause like molly." That's just a really weird way of thinking about this.

People are within their moral rights to run the risk but I don't understand this defensiveness that it's somehow a good or smart risk to run for the average case of abuse.
by mopsi | 2025-05-05 15:08:24+00:00
I wouldn't call "Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession" that either. It's more of a "Blazing Saddles" type movie with a cult following due to its catchphrases, but overall, it isn't very good. Even among movies by the same director, some slightly earlier titles like "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style" and "The Diamond Arm" from the late 1960s are much better, and hold up well against Hollywood contemporaries like "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and "The Great Race". I'd even say that cinematically, "The Diamond Arm" is a league above the average Hollywood movie of the era. It was shot really beautifully and has wonderful use of color.
by blagie | 2025-05-05 15:08:52+00:00
Tektronix instrumentation from this era (as well as HP/Agilent, and many of the military-affiliated labs) used pretty magical engineering tricks.

In order to be able to design equipment, the instrumentation generally needs to outperform the equipment, sometimes by a significant margin. If I'm looking at the eye of a digital signal, I need to capture much faster than the signal.

It'd be fun to have a book of tricks from this era. At some point, it will fade into obscurity. Right now, it's a whole different bag of tricks for the state-of-the-art. They feel less... more textbook and less clever.

On the other hand, what's nice is that in 2025, decent equipment is cheap. There's a breakpoint where below around 100MHz, you can't do basic work, and above you can. That's roughly where FM pickup and a lot of oscillations sit. That used to cost a lot, but as technology progressed, we're at a point where a decent home lab can be had for well under a grand.
by jerf | 2025-05-05 15:08:56+00:00
So, first of all, all props to the author for getting to this part of the commons first and setting up shop. In six months to a year this will probably be of no utility because the spammers will have drained the utility out, but in the meantime, for today's job search, a very clever differentiator.

I also find it an amazing judo-like usage of the way LLMs are so convincing to people with their confidence. By the time the recruiter realizes that the testimonial they read was a sort-of-close vector composite of the real ones given and the "vibe resume"d skills list they got was just not quite right, you'll have the job. It's not the jhgaylor's fault recruiters believe LLMs.

And honestly any professional recruiter or hiring agent who needs an AI, provided by the candidate no less(!), to interrogate (almost literally!) a resume is pretty just much asking for it.
by ArchieHub | 2025-05-05 15:09:00+00:00
Hi there, I obviously don't know who you are, so let me reply in general

1. We are asking for short introductory videos because we received a high number of fake applications in the past and it helps us filter for genuine candidates

2. We are actively hiring for the Lead Product Engineer and Full-Stack Developer roles right now

3. We are very close to signing a contract with one candidate we found through HN Who is Hiring

4. We aim to reply to all applications but might be late with some at the moment due to volume
by MisterTea | 2025-05-05 15:09:04+00:00
> - What’s going on? How bad is it? How long is it going to last? Very unstable mobile internet as mentioned.

Silly question but do you have AM or FM radio? When the lights went out in the northeast blackout of 2003 we turned to our cars to put on AM radio. Even after Hurricane Sandy my mother was without power for 3 weeks and she was running a battery powered radio.

I shudder to think of a future where moving information requires high performance digital electronics vs. a crystal radio set.
by chrisdhal | 2025-05-05 15:09:16+00:00
I think this may be generational. I'm GenX and growing up it was no big deal for my parent's generation (yes, the boomers) to have a drink a night. Even among people of my generation now it wouldn't be uncommon. Probably less than before, but I don't think anybody would think twice about a beer or a drink per day would be any big deal.
by Majromax | 2025-05-05 15:09:26+00:00
> The RIAA lawyers never had to demonstrate that copying a DVD cratered the sales of their clients. They just got high penalties for infringers almost by default.

The argument for 'fair use' in DVD copying/sharing is much weaker since the thing being shared in that case is a verbatim, digital copy of the work. 'Format shifting' is a tenuous argument, and it's pretty easily limited to making (and not distributing) personal copies of media.

For AI training, a central argument is that training is transformative. An LLM isn't intended to produce verbatim copies of trained-upon works, and the problem of hallucination means an LLM would be unreliable at doing so even if instructed to. That transformation could support the idea of fair use, even though copies of the data are made (internally) during the training process and the model's weights are in some sense a work 'derived' from the training data.

If you analogize to human leaning, then there's clearly no copyright infringement in a human learning from someone's work and creating their own output, even if it "copies" an artist's style or draws inspiration from someone's plot-line. However, it feels unseemly for a computer program to do this kind of thing at scale, and the commercial impact can be significantly greater.
by em-bee | 2025-05-05 15:09:31+00:00
he talked to kids. how many kids to you have to talk to before you can make a picture? maybe the kids didn't get hungry, but if they tell you they felt humiliated, then that is what happened. the kid still knows. the other kids know. it doesn't matter if people went out of their way to avoid that. it doesn't matter that the story given is just an anecdote. teachers covering for kids are anecdotes too.

you can be the most courteous about helping a kid out, and it may be that in many cases that avoids humiliation, but in some it doesn't. and that's enough to make that picture.

and don't think that people working in schools can't be humiliating. i have had to experience it at least once myself. not because of lunch money but something else, but that's besides the point.

also how exactly are they supposed to see for themselves? it's not like they can just walk into a school and hang out during lunch until they see it happen.
by thechao | 2025-05-05 15:09:54+00:00
There's an enormous premium on heat pumps in the U.S. So, there's a manufacturer of heat pumps here, in Austin; they sell a heat pump for 1600$ in Australia (installed); but the same unit is 9000$ (installed) in Austin. Part of the difference is labor (about 1000$); the rest ... I dunno? The difference in cost in electricity vs. propane runs about 1500$/yr. My current HVAC unit is good for another 5 years, or so. I'll just wait it out.
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-05 15:10:05+00:00
You’re making the mistake assuming a political party is flawless or that a political party having power somehow obviates the need to be responsive to constituents who might take issue or be swayed to take issue with the policy changes you try to enact.

People like the ones I described exist in both parties but I think it’s telling that people assumed I’m talking about one political party because it made those slogans it’s brand. The hard lines vs gradient doesn’t make sense in terms of public because this doesn’t raise to the level of public discourse.

Also Massachusetts is a bad example because they enacted free lunches across the board. They may have gradient issues in other welfare programs but school lunches is something they’ve solved for now.

As for RCV being shot down, I don’t think it’s an education issue. I personally prefer approval voting as it’s simpler to explain and faster results. Not wanting to switch to RCV (specifically IRV) can have all sorts of reasons and claiming it’s because the electorate is dumb is the wrong take I think.
by walleeee | 2025-05-05 15:10:32+00:00
It sounds worthwhile. I just wonder how you envision the author encoding their reasoning state. If as (terse) text, how would the author know the LLM successfully unpacks its meaning without interrogating it in detail, and then fine-tuning the prompt? And at that point, it would probably be faster to just write more verbose docs or comments?

What about a tool that simply allows other developers to hover over some code and see any relevant conversations the developer had with a model? Version the chat log and attach it to the code basically.
by ebfe1 | 2025-05-05 15:10:36+00:00
And this is how Chinese model will win in long term, perhaps... They will be trained on everything and anything without consequences and we will all use it because these models are smarter (except for area like Chinese history and geography). I don't have the right answer on what can be done here to protect copyright or rather contributing back to authors of a paper without all these millions dollar wasted in lawsuits.
by bilbo0s | 2025-05-05 15:10:37+00:00
I don't know?

Not really sure a claim is good enough. I don't know that you can just go into court and say, "Trust me, I don't use copyrighted material."

And I also can't see any way, other than providing training data and training an identically structured model on that data, that a company can conclusively show that they got the weights in an allegedly copyright free model from the copyright free training data a company provides.
by _1tem | 2025-05-05 15:10:58+00:00
Somebody should write commentaries/explanations for all of these, especially for non-native speakers and technical jargon. Hell, ChatGPT can probably write it up quickly. Even as a native speaker, there were quite a few that took a moment to understand. Have Reddit-style voting for the "best ones" and you could make a whole social network out of this.
by muststopmyths | 2025-05-05 15:11:22+00:00
so, debuggers are really just tools. To get "good" at analyzing crashdumps, you have to understand the OS and its process/threading model, the ABI of the platform, a little (to a lot) of assembler etc.

There's no magic to getting good at it. Like anything else, it's mostly about practice.

People like Bruce and Raymond Chen had a little bit of a leg up over people outside Microsoft in that if you worked in the Windows division, you got to look at more dumps than you'd have wanted to in your life. That plus being immersed in the knowledge pool and having access to Windows source code helps to speed up learning.

Which is to say, you will eventually "bridge the gap" with them with experience. Just keep plugging at it and eventually you'll understand what to look for and how to find it.

It helps that in a given application domain the nature of crashes will generally be repeated patterns. So after a while you start saying "oh, I bet this is a version of that other thing I've seen devs stumble over all the time".

A bit of a rambling comment to say don't worry. you'll "get really good at it" with experience.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-05-05 15:11:58+00:00
Great project!

As you mentioned vscode- I don't believe the sharee needs an account unless that's changed. (And you can do it all in browser).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/qui...

But executing code is a different story. Replit works better there but it's heavily resource constrained in free tier.
by firesteelrain | 2025-05-05 15:12:23+00:00
Where I am at, you can learn a skill in high school either via elective or a career technical track like working on airplanes, HVAC, construction, etc. Back in the 90s, I took automotive electives because I liked to work on cars back then. It would prepare you to work at a small automotive shop or as a hobby. I realized that it didn't make that much money so switched to computers.
by alwa | 2025-05-05 15:12:32+00:00
https://archive.is/CLbNR

I’m not really sure what to make of the thesis, but maybe that’s just “a loser” (sans riches) talking?

> But in the meantime, the Trump brigade is testing a genuinely fascinating philosophical problem: Can you hijack a nation’s culture with a crew made up entirely of losers?

Just look at these guys! Never has so much money surrounded so little rizz.

Points include: “Real” bodybuilders mock Jeff Bezos’ physique, Zuckerberg was unable to save Newark’s schools (and the name Facebook isn’t cool), and Elon Musk is “annoying, not funny.”

It feels a little mean to me.
by theoreticalmal | 2025-05-05 15:12:35+00:00
I would be slight more opposed to taking pictures on vacations if Apple didn’t have fantastic tools for capturing, sorting, and re-surfacing the photos to my attention. My phone and watch backgrounds cycle though Apple-chosen photos, which are usually spectacular. I frequently pause through the day after noticing a particularly fun picture and have a nice little 10s reminisce of the memory surrounding it
by vintagedave | 2025-05-05 15:12:36+00:00
Upvoting because you're struggling with a faceless megacorp.

> how we use the username (we save it against a user model in our database)

But what are you doing with that data? If I got that explanation, I'd ask again too. From what you wrote, I have no idea why you use IG, why you even need usernames, and definitely not how they are used after they are saved against other data.
by snozolli | 2025-05-05 15:12:40+00:00
Before smartphones and the Internet, I almost always had a paperback book to read. Bus rides were either me talking to friends (rare, since our schedule didn't match often), reading a book, or uncomfortably fighting the urge to doze off.

While, yes, social media gives us a more pronounced dopamine hit-and-crave cycle, we've always had means of escape at our fingertips.
by enlightens | 2025-05-05 15:12:45+00:00
Indeed.

"DID YOU JUST BAN CURSOR?" https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/1909

> The error seems very clear to me. Dev Kit is licensed only for use with VS Code, Cursor is not VS Code, ergo it is not licensed to use it.

>

> Not to mention that only VS Code can use the official plugin registry in the first place. Everything working as intended.
by kzrdude | 2025-05-05 15:12:52+00:00
Good question. The github url is printed on the first page.

I find some stuff like this.. is it raw pdf directives? Literally an example of something typst can't do right now. I also can't read this.

``` \def\mt@toggle@sample#1{% \pdfstartlink user{/Subtype/Link /BS << /Type/Border/W 1 /S/D /D[4 1] >> /H/O /C[0.65 0.04 0.07] /Contents(Click to Toggle #1!) %/OC << /Type/OCMD /VE[/Not \csname mt@_compatibility@\endcsname] >> % not honoured by older viewers anyway /A << /S/SetOCGState /State[/Toggle \csname mt@#1@true\endcsname \csname mt@#1@false\endcsname] >>} #1 \hfill\pdfendlink & \mt@layer{#1true}{\rlap{on}}\mt@layer{#1false}{off}} ```
by bombcar | 2025-05-05 15:14:16+00:00
It's interesting and informative to watch how different places handle power failures (which where I am in the USA are not common but not entirely rare, either).

Most of the bars keep serving to cash customers, and use paper to make notes for future bookkeeping. Some even start using paper tabs.

Big companies switch to backup generators (Walmart) or immediately cease business (also Walmart, because the card communication failed).

Some smaller ones had no lights to continue to be safe inside, so chased everyone out.

Other ones had enough windows and kept selling on a cash basis, making notes by hand. Some of these could open the cash drawer others couldn't, but made do with what they could.
by autobodie | 2025-05-05 15:14:26+00:00
Wrong. The question asked the opposite; it asked if the means testing saved the government money.

You answered "yes" in your original comment, but your supporting arguments imply "no" so I can see why people are confused.

Read the original question again:

>Is the overhead in deciding who gets free lunch and who doesn't and then managing the debt really saving more money than just giving all public school kids free lunches with no strings attached?
by tomsmeding | 2025-05-05 15:14:33+00:00
The 'et al.' is used for in-article citations, if done in author-year format; references in the reference list are, to the extent that I've seen, always written out in full. I guess Google just wanted to make the life of any academic citing their work miserable. There are (unfortunately) conferences that have page limits that include the reference list; I wonder if an exception would be made here.
by jhgaylor | 2025-05-05 15:14:39+00:00
Sort of ironic given I wrote an interface to a robot, but I hate that robots are going to destroy this space, or rather, never give it space to exist.

I think even if no hiring manager ever connects to my mcp server I will still find plenty of value from this tool. I can connect hirebase.org and notion.com and my mcp and get claude to create a database of interesting jobs that might be a good fit for me. I can connect Speech to Text (and Text to Speech) and do mock interviews. I can import a job description and a couple of cover letters and get a customized letter for this job that gives me something other than a blank page to start with.
by danenania | 2025-05-05 15:16:16+00:00
If you're using Cursor (as I do), but find it tends to struggle once your project reaches a certain size, and you're ok with something CLI-based, you might find the open source CLI coding agent I've built interesting: https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex

- It can handle up to 2M tokens of context directly, and can index/work with/chat with projects up to 20M tokens (1M+ lines). Here's an example of chatting with with SQLite codebase to learn about how transactions are implemented: https://plandex.ai/_next/static/media/plandex-sqlite.0ee6cb2...

- All changes are committed to a version-controlled sandbox by default, preventing the problem of stray changes that you don't notice being left behind in the project.

- Being terminal-based allows for more seamless and powerful execution control and automated debugging. Here's an example of automatically debugging a browser app (via redirection of console logs/errors to the terminal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-_76U_nK0Y&embeds_referring...