MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by c22 | 2025-05-05 03:59:33+00:00
When my first child was born we hired a doula to help everything go smoothly and one of the services she offered was to take a few photos of the process so I could stay present with my partner. It was great not having to worry about this and she managed to catch several fantastic shots.

For the second child we had a different doula, but requested her to do the same. Unfortunately that doula was at lunch when the birth happened and missed the whole thing. I managed to get a couple pictures taken with my cell phone but they ended up pretty garbage.

I admit I just went and peeked, but honestly we don't ever look at either of these sets. The newborn photos we really cherish in both cases are the ones that were taken in the hospital the next morning after everyone had gotten a little rest.
by jenniferabowd | 2025-05-05 04:02:23+00:00
Location: Washington DC, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, JavaScript/Typescript, Node, AWS, Next, Terraform Résumé/CV: https://www.jenniferabowd.com/Jennifer_Abowd_Resume.pdf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferabowd/ Email: jenniferabowd@gmail.com

I'm a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 7+ years of experience. I love working with JavaScript, React, and Node. I worked extensively in PHP Laravel for 2 years. I've worked at various companies as a Full Stack Engineer, so I've also dabbled in Java and Python. I am passionate about mentorship and code review as I see those as great ways to help the teams I'm on improve.
by nradov | 2025-05-05 04:02:57+00:00
Sure, the system is broken but what's the alternative? Employers have a surplus of applicants for entry-level technical positions. They need to filter the applicant pool down to those with some level of competence and discipline. Possession of a college degree is a reasonably accurate proxy for those attributes: lots of false negatives but good enough from the employer's perspective.

Ideally maybe employers ought to rely on more targeted selection mechanisms. But this would be extremely expensive (and potentially legally risky due to equal opportunity laws) so most don't bother.
by Tsarp | 2025-05-05 04:03:00+00:00
For folks looking to running speech to text locally(in the context of dictation) and dont want to do a subscription there are a few apps that run whisper large turbo locally (optimized to run really fast on apple silicon).

1. https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper (dictation + transcription)

2. https://carelesswhisper.app (does dictation only, and does it really well; cheapest)

3. https://superwhisper.com (both local and hosted models + lots of bells and whistles, but much higher pricing)
by eviks | 2025-05-05 04:03:23+00:00
I don't understand the need to come up with some fancy niche (slavery, oral, food name) when you have the more common approach: as is usual, part of the army ran away, and it included people of all ranks, from soldiers to generals, and they recorded it in all the same ways all the other events for recorded in the same sources (including training guides)

Then you continue to ignore the other elephant - the soldiers and everyone else who won battles also record history avoiding the slavery/food route

And again, "massacre" doesn't mean 100%
by phamilton | 2025-05-05 04:03:58+00:00
I can run the Qwen 3 0.6B model directly on my 3-year-old phone, and it can rewrite text and help me clearly explain my views. Even with new models possibly being less open and subsidized options drying up, we still have useful open models available for free on consumer hardware.

Source: I used it to write this post.
by wodenokoto | 2025-05-05 04:04:47+00:00
But is it actually inaccurate at scale?

I get that drawing a projection is inaccurate at scale, but if I do all my calculation as meters north/south and east/west of 0,0 on the equator, won’t all my distance calculations be correct?

Like 5.000.000 east and 0 m north is 5.000km from the origin. I cannot see how that could ever become inaccurate as I move further away.

Where is the inaccuracy introduced? When I reproject back to coordinates on a globe?
by vaxman | 2025-05-05 04:05:22+00:00
Oh this site does humor great, it's just that the serious participants are so "focused" they don't (or can't) realize how funny their often esoteric comments are.

As far as devolving into useless one liners --there is an emerging tech called the at-proto (not related to modems hahaa) that is poised to disrupt billions of dollars worth of sites like this one. Enjoy this era while it lasts..
by random3 | 2025-05-05 04:06:05+00:00
Seeing some good comments and will add to the pile.

IMO it's not a "now" thing. There's a natural ad-hoc, close proximity vibe that some gatherings have. They often come with everything else, including flow and good (best of this kind) memories.

I imagine some of these were called hackathons and some LAN parties, etc. Nevertheless it's not a straightforward thing to recreate artificially. Unfortunately most public / large "hackathons" I went to were failed attempts.

I've had the great experience of growing up in eastern Europe in 90s and 00s and so in highschool if you qualified for the higher stages of CS olympiads you were allowed to skip classes and spend time in the "lab" with the other "olympics". That was the first "hackathon", basically sometimes a few weeks in a row of coding with everyone else from 8AM till whenever you were in trouble if you didn't get home. Sometimes playing Doom, sometimes with the teachers, but most times coding. It was ... "electric" - unfortunately I don't have writing skills to make justice to it. Then there were the LAN parties and those were very good too, and so on.

I've actually been through a few hackathons at work that were pretty good.

Every time they are with the people you know well and few more (1-2) degrees of separation, but always with a shared goal and nothing else but the pure shared goal of the hackatahon. Everyone is already fluent and will hit the ground running, etc. Otherwise it's bunch of people that never worked together, not "style" cohhesion, etc. fucking around trying to figure out stuff that should already be in place for a proper hackathon.

I could go on and think I'd probably have a few good things to add here, but wouldn't be sure that it's a "solution", just some facts from my own experience.

But man, those days in the "lab" doing CS problems, they gave me the "high" for what coding can be like for the rest of my life. I don't need more than 15s of that to want to GO, haha :)
by wyclif | 2025-05-05 04:06:06+00:00
It's supposed to be transmitted orally, like a story from Homer or something, so I won't copy and paste it here, but you can find it easily enough by searching. Basically, without quoting it word-for-word, it's old bluesman advice from the "diddly-bow" era that when starting out on guitar, string it with one string only and play it until you can provoke emotion from an audience with one string. When you can do that, add another, repeat the cycle, add another string, until all six strings are on the guitar.
by j_bum | 2025-05-05 04:08:52+00:00
That’s neat that you used the word “feel”… it’s the exact word I use when I try to describe my experience.

For example, I have a great spatial memory, which is obviously not due to my ability to “see” things in my mind. Instead, when asked how I can remember spatial things (e.g., “which way did we come from on our hike?”), all I can say is that I simply “feel” the path.

If you’re curious, this is because different parts of our brain are responsible for visual spatial processing vs. visual object processing. The dorsal visual pathway is responsible for spatial processing, and the ventral visual pathway is responsible for object processing, like faces. This is all “bottom up” visual processing.

Bottom up visual processing is independent from internal cognitive activation of these pathways, which can arise from frontoparietal engagement of the same “endpoints” as the dorsal/central visual pathways. This is “top down” processing.

My ability to “feel a spatial cognitive map without images” argues that there are some miswirings between my frontoparietal cortex and my temporal cortex. This is why I can still recognize faces, objects, etc., but can’t see them in my mind.

Visual imagery during dreaming adds an entire other layer onto the topic :)

Here are some good reviews and articles on the topic:

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...

[1] https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S136...

[2] https://academic.oup.com/cercorcomms/article/2/2/tgab035/626...
by haswell | 2025-05-05 04:11:01+00:00
As a fellow aphantasic, I couldn’t agree more.

I’ve also learned over the years that photography is actually a gateway to being present for me. I spent the first 30+ years of my life in my head. Photography helps me pay attention to my surroundings, and is a kind of mindfulness practice in many ways.

When I go back and look at old images, it always surprises me how much I’ve forgotten.

I do think it can be taken too far, but at least for me, it’s been an invaluable tool for all of the reasons you mentioned.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-05-05 04:11:01+00:00
Cute, but no. I will absolutely do none of things.

You need to make it as easy as possible for me to learn about you. If instructions are necessary it’s not easy. If you want me to feed links to an LLM then just do it for me and share the LLM output.

I care about only two things - a LinkedIn exported resume and a portfolio page. That’s it.

I don’t think I ever once ever seen an interesting or impressive GitHub repo. I’m not spending half an hour clicking through a dozen repos and god knows how many files.
by hnfong | 2025-05-05 04:11:07+00:00
Speaking personally, yes, very much so.

I see your point, but the issue is that it's quite futile to shame students for playing the game that people in the industry has set up. It doesn't help that in the past, college degrees were in fact more relevant than today, especially before the era of the internet and wikipedia, so if older people who are currently in charge of hiring aren't aware of these changes, they might just apply their outdated personal experience and just assume college degrees hold the same weight as they did in the past.

I'm pretty certain when kids these days eventually become responsible for hiring decisions, they probably will handle things differently since their experiences are different.
by bandrami | 2025-05-05 04:12:36+00:00
Peter H Wilson had an interesting point in his 30 years war book that it's not just the appearance of firearms (musketeers in Spanish terzios fired in their own time), you also had to have a philosophical change to allow seeing a human as a cog in a larger machine; it's fundamentally an Early Modern concept rather than a renaissance one. And so you first see volley fire among the Italian condottieri and the Low Countries' militias, where you were simultaneously seeing the start of mercantile economies based on transactions between individuals.
by babyshake | 2025-05-05 04:12:42+00:00
Once there is a "one click connect to an MCP server" workflow this type of thing will make more sense for this type of use case, but right now how would you say this improves on the status quo of a resume PDF you can upload to your AI chatbot and ask questions about? Aside from demonstrating your own proficiency with MCP tech, that is. I ask because the current amount of work and tech knowledge required is greater than it would be for the PDF-based workflow, but I might be missing something.

Edit: there was an example in another answer, "I offer a contact tool when you use the hosted server because I can hide away my email credentials and expose a way for the LLM to send me an email."
by robertclaus | 2025-05-05 04:14:07+00:00
Cool idea. I was curious how this point works. I assume it would only include public code? Or are you proxying private projects through your MCP?

``` Walk through core technologies in your stack, explore my project work via the GitHub MCP server, and discuss design trade-offs:

Example: "Give me a code walk-through of Jake's use of AWS Lambda in his last project and ask him to explain the trade-offs." ```
by lmm | 2025-05-05 04:14:24+00:00
That's likely talking about a shot at close quarters (from the strongest kind of pre-modern bows in the world), the chausses the arrow went through would have been mail not plate, and horses are much less resilient than humans.

Of course longbows could and did kill - they wouldn't have been used in war otherwise! But they did not routinely kill through plate armour at range.
by braincode | 2025-05-05 04:14:32+00:00
This project made me wonder if a "physical virtual printer" exists?

I'd love to send print jobs to a "non-physical" printer that any OS (and/or Adobe DC Reader) sees as a "completely legit, real, physical printer".

In other words, not just the "Print to PDF" option/dialog on the OS. Then after "printing", have a valid PDF appear on that device's target storage itself (eMMC/SD Card/SMB share...)?
by ComplexSystems | 2025-05-05 04:15:14+00:00
I agree with this to some extent. Another perspective: think about the element [(1, 2, 3, 4, ...)] in the ultrafilter; let's call this omega. On some level, all of these questions are really just questions about what properties omega has: is it even or odd, prime or composite, etc. Simultaneously deciding all of these questions in a coherent way is equivalent to specifying an ultrafilter. Similarly, when we ask about some function f(x) being > g(x) asymptotically, we are basically asking if f(omega) > g(omega). This is just a different view of the same thing.

For instance, your question happens to be equivalent to asking whether sin(omega) > cos(omega), and thus if tan(omega) > 1. This is true iff the fractional part the hyperreal number omega/(2*pi) is between 1/8 and 5/8. Thus we have reduced the asymptotic statement to a question about an arithmetical property of one particular hyperreal number.

Choosing an ultrafilter basically involves simultaneously determining all properties of omega. There are different ultrafilters, each providing a different coherent "universe" which decides all possible predicates in a coherent way. That this is possible (with the axiom of choice) is highly interesting. However, it doesn't seem necessary for asymptotic analysis.

Of course, if there is some "canonical" or "most natural" ultrafilter to choose from, with some magical property universally deemed important, then it would settle your question and all such questions in a natural way.
by sigmaisaletter | 2025-05-05 04:15:45+00:00
Log in to your (previously used) OpenAI account, start a new conversation and prompt ChatGPT with: "Given what you know about me, who do you think I voted for in the last election?"

The "correct" response (here given by Duck.ai public Llama3.3 model) is:

"I don't have any information about you or your voting history. Our conversation just started, and I don't retain any information about users. I'm here to provide general information and answer your questions to the best of my ability, without making any assumptions or inferences about your personal life or opinions."

But ChatGPT (logged in) gives you another answer, one which it cannot possibly give without information about your past conversation. I don't see anything "secret" about it, but it works.

Edit: typo
by thomasfromcdnjs | 2025-05-05 04:15:55+00:00
This is cool, going to steal some ideas.

I started working on this mcp server that updates your resume based off what you have been doing in your editor/git-commits -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jsonresume/jsonresume-mcp?act...

e.g. if you were coding a supabase feature, it checks your resume for supabase and adds it if its missing.
by nlh | 2025-05-05 04:15:55+00:00
> Cute, but no. I will absolutely do none of things. You need to make it as easy as possible for me to learn about you. If instructions are necessary it’s not easy. If you want me to feed links to an LLM then just do it for me and share the LLM output.

Ok, typical honest-and-probably-correct-but-snarky HN take. Fine I can deal with this.

> I don’t think I ever once ever seen an interesting or impressive GitHub repo.

Dude. I don't think OP is the problem anymore...
by saghm | 2025-05-05 04:15:56+00:00
My point is that having a majority that isn't large enough to amend the constitution is far more common than having a supermajority aligned on an issue at any given time, and there's still plenty of danger from that majority trying to erode the protections in the constitution without amending it. There hasn't really been any serious attempt at writing a new amendment to the constitution at least since the ERA was sent to the states from Congress over half a century ago despite a fairly noticeable trend of increased executive power in the same time period (after a brief dip in the immediate aftermath of Nixon). In fact Nixon getting elected in 1972 (the same year as the ERA getting passed in Congress) is the last time any presidential candidate got even 60% of the popular vote, which is still below the threshold that would be needed for a constitutional amendment, and no one has gotten even 54% percent of the vote in the past four decades. If you're trying to argue that no majority-elected president since Reagan has had any incentive at all to try to push their power beyond that specified in the constitution, then I guess that this wouldn't be a concern to you, but I don't think it's a particularly controversial take for me to argue that there has been ample incentive for at least some of these presidents to try to increase their power.
by manquer | 2025-05-05 04:16:13+00:00
As long it is orbiting the sun, i.e bound by the solar gravitational field then it is in the solar system?

Also depending how elliptical the orbit, is the perigee might be much closer than 700AU, while still being further than Pluto's orbit. For all we know 700 AU is the apogee and say the perigee is 70 AU (1.4x Pluto's apogee ).
by lolinder | 2025-05-05 04:17:42+00:00
The author has an entire series of posts on how pre-modern generalship did and didn't work, including a post on issuing commands. The tl;dr is that there cannot have been a generalized order to fire on cue because pre-modern armies didn't have that kind of command resolution and speed. Best case you have a few guys who start firing because they're told to and the rest follow suit when they notice that it's started, more likely there's an established doctrine for when firing should happen and archers use their judgement for whether to start.

https://acoup.blog/2022/06/03/collections-total-generalship-...
by mehulashah | 2025-05-05 04:19:09+00:00
I agree. As a sponsor, we don’t also do it any longer. The incentives are fake. You want people to be excited about using your tool, not using it in some contrived way to win a few bucks. When the use is real, the feedback is real. Otherwise, it’s the blind leading the blind.

The hackathons I remember as a college student were different. They were much more free form. You were asked to create something around a broad topic: eg graphics, operating systems, modeling a neuron. You were allowed and encouraged to go outside the box.

Getting the prize was fun, but a working artifact was much more satisfying. That’s why we did it.

So, yes, it’s too commercial these days.
by expensive_news | 2025-05-05 04:19:42+00:00
I have mixed feelings. Generally I don’t think that LLM output should be used to create anything that a human is supposed to read, but I do carve out a big exception for people using LLMs for translation/writing in a second language.

At the same time, however, the people who need to use an LLM for this are going to be the worst at identifying the output’s weaknesses, eg just as I couldn’t write Spanish text, I also couldn’t evaluate the quality of a Spanish translation that an LLM produced. Taken to an extreme, then, students today could rely on LLMs, trust them without knowing any better, and grow to trust them for everything without knowing anything, never even able to evaluate their quality or performance.

The one area that I do disagree with the author, though, is coding. As much as I like algorithms code is written to be read by computers and I see nothing wrong with computers writing it. LLMs have saved me tons of time writing simple functions so I can speed through a lot of the boring legwork in projects and focus on the interesting stuff.

I think Miyazaki said it best: “I feel… humans have lost confidence“. I believe that LLMs can be a great tool for automating a lot of boring and repetitive work that people do every day, but thinking that they can replace the unique perspectives of people is sad.
by nikisweeting | 2025-05-05 04:22:25+00:00
absolutely, because of the bearproof trashcan problem (smartest bears are smarter than the dumbest users, make your trashcans too bear-proof and the humans cant use them either). the AIs will be able to solve more CAPTCHAs than some humans can pretty soon.

the next step is something like worldcoin/ID or biometric-gated access, or an extreme increase in the number of paywalls (not that I like either of those options). I don't see any other way forward on the decade+ timescale.
by timonoko | 2025-05-05 04:23:08+00:00
The version with external 5 x 64k memory is definitively in Osborne-1 disk drawer.

But Osborne does not work. It was so heavily modified that it will never work. The external memory was partially visible in memory space. And the display driver was improved to have 80 columns.

But the stand-alone CP/M-version is long gone.
by investa | 2025-05-05 04:24:33+00:00
Don't launch (yet). Instead, ask those users who gave you info for some feedback on your product. Then you have launched without it being a launch.

Launching is in the eye of the beholder. If you launch to 10k people that is 10k 1 person launches. That's all. A single 1 person launch is the same in many ways.

Except any buzz etc. But don't worry about that.
by colechristensen | 2025-05-05 04:24:56+00:00
I'm very tired a mildly stupid and my body has no idea at all when it should be asleep for about a week at which point i'm mostly but not entirely better. then again I always had trouble with keeping a regular sleep schedule

I have long since learned how to maintain a healthy sleep schedule when the system is not disturbed by stupid decisions, my techniques just don't work as quickly as they used to. (the most impactful technique is "don't stay up all night, idiot")
by jhgaylor | 2025-05-05 04:26:08+00:00
The standard PDF resume is optimized for the human to read. The information density there is pretty low. Take a look at https://ai.jakegaylor.com/llms.txt and compare that to https://jakegaylor.com/JakeGaylor_resume.pdf

Now we can spend our time more on the content and less on the presentation.

You can already use claude desktop, upload your resume, point it to your website, paste in some stuff from linkedin and output an llms.txt. You can get 80% of the way with just a couple of clicks.
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by yogigan | 2025-05-05 04:26:50+00:00
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