MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmclnx | 2025-05-14 13:48:36+00:00
No surprise there, a relative will get his doctorate sometime next year, I have been forwarding him these articles to let him know he can go elsewhere. Funding at his tier one school has been drying up like the Colorado River as it enters Mexico.

His parents are finally realizing the damage Trump is doing. They never liked Trump, but they did not think it would be anywhere near this bad in academia.

As I mentioned here before, off to backwater status the US goes.

My largest fear as the US descends into obscurity, the US will start invading other Countries to take their resources and nothing the other powerful countries could do to stop it due to the massive stockpile of nukes we have :(
by ModernMech | 2025-05-14 13:49:39+00:00
Your experience matches an observation I have made, that when C++ developers approach Rust for the first time they often "fight the borrow checker" when they use C++ idioms in Rust. Then they start to learn Rust idioms, and bring them back to C++, which causes them to write more robust code despite not having and borrow checking at all.
by bluGill | 2025-05-14 13:49:40+00:00
Which is not something anyway wants. People need ridged predictable schedules so they can figure out how to plan their life. There are spontaneous trips people make (I burned supper - guess we are going out to eat tonight). Meetings sometimes run late, and sometimes end early, sometimes I want to stay around and chat after the meeting sometimes I want to get right home. I need instant flexibility and predictable routes gives me that since I don't have to meet their schedule. Meetings always start on time - flexible routes too often will not be predictable because they detour for someone else. Meetings often don't open the door until a few minutes before - predictable lines mean I can tell the person with the key when I'll be there and I will be right (important if it is bad weather)

Flexible routes remove the mass from mass transit.
by jplusequalt | 2025-05-14 13:49:43+00:00
>Your programming language shouldn't constrict you in those ways

Says who? Programming languages come in all shapes and sizes, and each has their tradeoffs. Rust's tradeoff is that the compiler is very opinionated about what constitutes a valid program. But in turn it provides comparable performance to C/C++ without many of the same bugs/security vulnerabilities.
I kept missing internship deadlines so I built a bot to apply for me
by smobarak | 2025-05-14 13:49:53+00:00
Last year I missed most of internship season because I was drowning in school stuff.

This year I told myself I’d start early. I did not.

So over break I built a little agent to do it for me.

I'm calling it Ray (him? is that weird) and the number is +1 (833) 758-0481.

I just text it what I’m looking for and it goes off and starts applying. It fills out forms, answers questions, and only messages me when it needs something.

I want feedback! I made it free for everyone.

What are everyone's thoughts??

Landing page @ https://useradar.ai/
by ty6853 | 2025-05-14 13:50:08+00:00
It also doesn't help that any perceived error in raising a child results in a phone call to CPS (by literally anyone) and possibly you and your children being terrorized, and much of this perception is cultural. The more cultural diversity, the more chance you come across that single person that doesn't approve of the way you do it.

This has happened over as little as a kid walking home alone or playing at the park while the mom is at an interview.

I've partially chosen to raise my family in a place with people like me because I know the neighbor kids drive trucks, work in construction, explore the backcountry on dirt bikes, etc from a very young age and I don't have to worry about the local nazi mom sending the child snatchers for the sin of a child having some independence.
by withzombies | 2025-05-14 13:50:15+00:00
This change is a great change as so many Apps spy on your pasteboard. I think a lot of people are going to be shocked at how many apps peek into your pasteboard for both legitimate and illegitimate reasons.

It's sad that your app won't be as useable but I'd much rather have the universal pasteboard protections. It would be worthwhile if we had to specify a pasteboard access reason in the Info.plist, but that likely would require a new API because it would break all legacy uses of the current API.
M&S Cyber Incident Apology
by librasteve | 2025-05-14 13:50:21+00:00
Dear XXX, I’m Jayne Wall, and I look after Customer Service here at M&S. I am sure that you will have seen in the news that we have been dealing with a cyber incident and I wanted to write to you about what this means for you. What has happened? To proactively manage the incident, we immediately took steps to protect our systems and engaged leading cyber security experts. We also reported the incident to relevant government authorities and law enforcement, who we continue to work closely with. Unfortunately, the nature of the incident means that some personal customer data has been taken, but there is no evidence that it has been shared. The personal data could include contact details, date of birth and online order history. However, importantly, the data does not include useable card or payment details, and it also does not include any account passwords. For more detail, see our FAQs. How does this affect me and what should I do? You do not need to take any action, but you might receive emails, calls or texts claiming to be from M&S when they are not, so do be cautious. Remember that we will never contact you and ask you to provide us with personal account information, like usernames, and we will never ask you to give us your password. For more information, FAQs and hints and tips on how to stay safe online visit corporate.marksandspencer.com/cyber-update To give you extra peace of mind, next time you visit or login to your M&S.com account on our website or app, you will also be prompted to reset your password. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused to you and all of our customers. Thank you so much for shopping with us and for your support, we never take it for granted. Jayne's signature Jayne Wall Operations Director
by fsflover | 2025-05-14 13:50:23+00:00
> > or insufficient PR > > Aka "stupidity". > > While I love Hanlon's razor as much as anyone

Stupidity isn't necessary here. A small company simply has no resources for a large PR campaign.

Also, nothing prevents a performant iPhone from allowing a full desktop mode except artificial software restrictions resulted from the greediness. Follow the money.
by kllrnohj | 2025-05-14 13:50:29+00:00
No, it isn't. Absolute luminance is a "feature" of PQ specifically used by HDR10(+) and most DolbyVision content (notably the DolbyVision as produced by an iPhone is not PQ, it's not "real" DolbyVision). But this is not the only form of HDR and it's not even the common form for phone cameras. HLG is a lot more popular for cameras and it is not in absolute luminance. The gainmap-based approach that Google, Apple, and Adobe are all using is also very much not absolute luminance, either. In fact that flips it entirely and it's SDR relative instead, which is a much better approach to HDR than what video initially went with.
by motbus3 | 2025-05-14 13:51:13+00:00
How did Brexit worked out for the UK ? Isn't it the same guy behind the brexit the head for this immigration thing?

My company has lots of trouble on hiring people in uk. There is simply no applicants and they hire people from abroad who are simply now giving up in the interview process because of those news. I've heard that the branch in the UK is likely to close :(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-3661323...
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-14 13:51:34+00:00
A trick is to know which brands you need. Marriott's Residence Inn is a big reliable one (for multiple "rooms" and kitchen/laundry) that exists almost everywhere in the US. It's a part of the whole Marriott system and often in tourism lulls in various cities has deals that keep it comparatively well priced with other Marriotts in that city and will let you use Marriott points to further defray costs.

Hilton and IHG both have similar brands, but their exact names escape me at the moments. The search keywords are "extended stay" and "apartment hotels".
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-05-14 13:51:39+00:00
For every comment in this thread that says the author did too much, there is another saying the author clearly did not do enough.

Plenty of comments here have strong, but conflicting, opinions about which set of features are obviously in or out of scope. That alone indicates to me that this is a badly worded take home test.

Even ignoring that, the author told Kagi exactly what they were going to do in advance.

Applicant: I'm going to spend a week building X

Kagi: Sounds great!

Applicant: After a week, I have built X

Kagi: Not at all what we are looking for. Rejected.

I don't see any way to interpret this interaction positively.
by TheJoeMan | 2025-05-14 13:51:41+00:00
This creates a market discontinuity by the government that leads to abuse. Part of the reason for Amazon's dominance is that USPS undercharges for package delivery. When Amazon rolled out their own delivery service, they optimize delivering the "cheap" packages, and making USPS deliver the "expensive" out of the way packages, and due to flat-rates, USPS was in the red. USPS's solution? Keep squeezing grandma who wants to mail a few first-class letters a year.
by kbolino | 2025-05-14 13:51:43+00:00
It actually was profitable for most of its existence. It zealously guarded its monopoly on first-class mail because that's where the money came from. And it did so before it was spun out as a quasi-private entity.

This is actually one of the challenges of public services in the US today; many things, from mail delivery to bus and train service to road construction and vehicle registration, were once self-sufficient but haven't been for a long time. There's a lot of reasons for this, but one of the outcomes is that entities which used to take care of themselves now have to beg for a growing portion out of the general fund.

However, it's clear that the 1970s experiment to have it turn a profit again didn't work and likely never would have worked (it was, in many ways, set up for failure).
by esperent | 2025-05-14 13:51:52+00:00
I think it depends on the screen and also what you use it for. My OLED is unusable for normal work in HDR because it's designed around only a small portion of the screen being at max brightness - reasonable for a game or movie, but the result is that a small window with white background will look really bright, but if I maximize it, it'll look washed out, grey not white.

Also the maximum brightness isn't even that bright at 800 nits, so no HDR content really looks that different. I think newer OLEDs are brighter though. I'm still happy with the screen in general, even in SDR the OLED really shines. But it made me aware not all HDR screens are equal.

Also, in my very short experiment using HDR for daily work I ran into several problems, the most serious of which was the discovery that you can no longer just screenshot something and expect it to look the same on someone else's computer.
by kicktheken | 2025-05-14 13:52:21+00:00
In this Wordle variant, you play against an opponent where your first guess is their target word and their first guess is your target word. Which means you may not want to use a starting word that covers the most common letters since it’ll also make it easier for your opponent to guess. If you win or tie against your opponent, you start a streak where that same first guess will be used the next day. See how long you can keep your streak!

Open to questions, suggestions, edge cases, or cursed 5-letter words to test. Enjoy!
by bayindirh | 2025-05-14 13:52:27+00:00
Thanks for your rude words.

The gist is, Agents and ideas underpinning Agentic LLMs are 20+ years old, and agents were managing systems and keeping things up autonomously for decades now. JADE has been developed by Telefonica to keep tabs on the telephone infra, also since the agents can migrate, it was also the original edge computing, but I digress...

You don't have to give a damn about my research. The point is not that. You challenged my knowledge, and I shown you what I know, how I know, plus you read a small history of intelligent agents, to boot.

I don't know what you are trying to achieve with asking me being autistic or not. I'm not, and it doesn't matter. The way it comes is bluntly insulting regardless of my situation.

So yes, Agentic LLMs are new, but the Agents itself is not, and the agents I'm talking about are not dumb chatbots. They can wander distributed systems, process data, learn from that data, report their findings and optimize themselves as they operate. They are not just parrots, but real programs which keep infrastructures intact.

Since you're losing your temper, and getting into ad-hominem category, and seeing it's tea time here, I'll prefer to sip my tea and continue my day.

Thank you for the chat and insults, and have a nice and productive life.
by WillAdams | 2025-05-14 13:52:39+00:00
Call it the X-Windows factor --- software gets more capable/more complex and there's a constant leap-frogging (new hardware release, stuff runs faster, software is written to take advantage of new hardware, things run more slowly, software is optimized, things run more quickly).

The most striking example of this was Mac OS X Public Beta --- which made my 400MHz PowerPC G3 run at about the same speed as my 25 MHz NeXT Cube running the quite similar OPENSTEP 4.2 (just OS X added Java and Carbon and so forth) --- but each iteration got quicker until by 10.6.8, it was about perfect.
by seancorfield | 2025-05-14 13:52:44+00:00
Absolutely this, yes!

If you post a JS position, you will get 1,000 or more applicants, so it is a huge amount of work behind the scenes to filter this down to try to find the vaguely worthwhile candidates to interview.

If you post, for example, a Clojure position, you will get 10s or maybe even a 100 candidates tops. And they tend to be uniformly more qualified because niche tech tends to self-select folks who want to explore outside the mainstream.

Of course, a lot of businesses want to use mainstream tech because "the hiring pool is much larger", but the flip side is "the hiring process is a lot more work", because of the volume. So, we get a crappy hiring process because they can't scale up a good hiring process :(
by cryptonym | 2025-05-14 13:53:11+00:00
I booked one with swimming pool, advertising enough room for 6 person.

View was amazing, as advertised. The bed in the living room was inflatable and deflated over night. Only three forks in kitchen drawer. Convoluted scheme to enter the building and room cause they want to hide the fact it's an Airbnb as it's not really allowed in that building. Swimming pool was on maintenance since 2 months.

Airbnb couldn't care less, basically I was being annoying to them. They didn't publish my honest review.

Sure having a kitchen and a comfy place to rest is nice, since that experience I'm very reluctant to take again that risk, especially with kids.
by kllrnohj | 2025-05-14 13:53:13+00:00
HDR gaming: Yes.

HDR full screen content: Yes.

HDR general desktop usage: No. In fact you'll probably actively dislike it to the point of just turning it off entirely. The ecosystem just isn't ready for this yet, although with things like the "constrained-high" concepts ( https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-hdr-1/#the-dynamic-range-lim... ) this might, and hopefully does, change & improve to a more pleasing result

Also this is assuming an HDR monitor that's also a good match for your ambient environment. The big thing nobody really talks about wiith HDR is that it's really dominated by how dark you're able to get your surrounding environment such that you can push your display "brightness" (read: SDR whitepoint) lower and lower. OLED HDR monitors, for example, look fantastic in SDR and fantastic in HDR in a dark room, but if you have typical office lighting and so you want an SDR whitepoint of around 200-300 nits? Yeah, they basically don't do HDR at all anymore at that point.
by em-bee | 2025-05-14 13:53:16+00:00
you are right in that as a generalist i have no fear to start a job in any new tech stack, no matter how unfamiliar. but with hundreds of applicants to every job there is always someone more experienced with the tech stack used there. to win as a generalist you kind of have look for jobs in niches where only few people apply. i am struggling as a generalist.
by drob518 | 2025-05-14 13:53:19+00:00
The trend toward ARM in both laptops and data centers is clear. It’s being driven by power efficiency as much as performance. The x86 guys have shown that they can make x86 fast and that CISC is really not an issue, but that takes a lot of transistors and those transistors inevitably burn power. For the same performance, x86 will always be more power hungry. And so the industry will keep moving toward ARM and RISC-V.
by redactifi | 2025-05-14 13:53:30+00:00
Hey thanks for the reply. Right now it is only compatible with python, javascript, typescript, JSON, and TXT files. The pay wall that I have set up now lets users see how many issues and vulnerabilites are detected, but not the details. Will definitley consider changing this as it is the first iteration. Would you be interested in testing and offering more feedback in exchange for free lifetime pro access?
by steveklabnik | 2025-05-14 13:53:49+00:00
> i always ask why are there any CVEs for rust if its "memory-safe" but never get an answer suprisingly

The answer is straightforward: bugs exist. Even in formally proven software, mistakes can be made. Nothing is perfect.

Additionally, memory safety is a property that when people talk about it, they mean by default. All languages contain some amount of non-proven unsafe code in their implementation, or via features like FFI. Issues can arise when these two worlds interact. Yet, real-world usage shows that these cases are quite few compared to languages without these defaults. The exceptions are also a source of the CVEs you’re talking about.
by ItsHarper | 2025-05-14 13:54:10+00:00
There's two big factors that make software compatibility very important for this product specifically.

1. His team is positively tiny compared to what Pebble used to have, and the less software work that's needed, the better.

2. All of the apps and watchfaces people wrote for the original Pebbles were distributed as compiled ARM binaries, so if you picked an MCU with an entirely different instruction set, you'd lose backwards compatibility. ESP32 would fall into that category, for example (not that it would have been a good choice anyway).
by coffeeismydrug | 2025-05-14 13:54:20+00:00
I'm not sure who we would send the death certificate to? I'm hoping someone from FB sees this and can advise. We've tried creating a new group and re-directing via a post in the old group, but we can't make that post sticky, and so far very few posts go to the new place, and people continue to post to the old place.
by ctkhn | 2025-05-14 13:54:43+00:00
As one of those reports' reports, I have noticed that these decision maker business types love AI for their own job too. A teammate had to email another department for approval on some infra and our manager's manager told him to run it through our firm's proprietary LLM to touch it up when it was essentially "I'm on team X and we need approval to use Y for Z, is that ok?" Makes me wonder what is even going on in her brain if she thought something so simple needed an AI touchup.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-05-14 13:55:42+00:00
This article is off the rails in a way. Yeah we all know about how LLMs hallucinate and how that’s an impossible hurdle to get over (currently).

But AI at its current level, pre ChatGPT was in itself an even MORE off the rails claim then anything in this article. Like what AI can do today is unthinkable to the point where you can be sent to the mental ward of a hospital if you made a claim for predicting what AI can do currently. The Turing test was leap frogged and everybody just complains about AI is garbage and then they moved the goal posts.

It’s not that the claims are wildly overblown. It’s only overblown a little and not by an overly bullshit amount.

It’s that the hype is pervasive. Like we see this hype everywhere and we are riding along with it. AI has infiltrated our lives so deeply that we are just no longer impressed so we get all kinds of people saying AI is overblown when really it’s not that overblown at all. AI agents that code for us? We are 50 percent of the way there. It’s the last 50 percent that’s brutally hard to make happen but it’s not completely out of this world for a company to try to jump that gap in a year. We’ve made incremental progress.

If Elon invented a space faring vehicle that had a light speed drive and was available for anyone to purchase and fly for 5$ then I guarantee you hype will blow up to the point where people get sick of it just like AI.

People will be talking about how space travel and light speed drives are overblown. I’m not impressed that it still takes 4 light years to get to Alpha Centauri are you kidding me?
by rightbyte | 2025-05-14 13:56:12+00:00
My experience joining a political party as 3X yo is that the (near)retirees are eager to throw mandates at you because you are young.

The early 20s and 5X+ are the ones that have more time for politics. I would not read some inter-generational class warfare into that.

I wouldn't broadly blame generations for things. It is like that silly Karen meme service workers have. We are part of the problem too.
by UncleMeat | 2025-05-14 13:56:17+00:00
It's amazing that we had oodles of "population growth will cause mass-starvation, we need global policy to limit the population to the current size" worries on the run up from 2B to 8B and now we've got "population decline will cause mass-starvation, we need global policy to limit the population to the current size" worries.

And the global population isn't falling. Birth rates are only below replacement among certain groups.
by some_random | 2025-05-14 13:56:24+00:00
There are two ways of looking at Airbnb, as a hotel substitute or as a resort substitute. It has a very hard time competing with hotels, as others have stated there are advantages but overall an airbnb is going to be worse and/or more expensive. BUT the resort substitute is where it is a lot more competitive, and this whole experience thing seems like a good way to lean into that element.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-05-14 13:56:28+00:00
Talk to upper middle class people that have 4 or more children. They'll likely tell you that life gets easier after the 4th and subsequent children. I've heard of fathers describe it as switching from "man-to-man defence" to "zone defence". Your experience and parenting skills no longer have to be learned. Older children help with care for the younger. And not inconsequentially, your expectations rationalize.

My wife wanted more than our 2 children, but medical reasons prevented us from having more.

Most of my children's friends are in 2 child families. IMO middle class people tend to stop at 2 for financial reasons. OTOH, we know several couples who are both surgeons or in similar occupations. They tend to have either 0 or 4+ children.