MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-02 15:24:06+00:00
Every open rec gets hundreds of applications within the first day. Especially for remote jobs. LinkedIn Easy Apply shows you how many people applied, if your application has been looked at by a human and whether your resume has been downloaded.

My resume for my niche - cloud app dev with la few specialties - was about as impressive as you could get. 5 years across two startups leading all of their cloud initiatives and 3.5 years at AWS (ProServe) and I heard crickets after submitting hundreds of resumes. It was only a Plan C so I didn’t expect much.

I had two offers basically handed to me quickly based on my network and 1 based on targeted outreach to a company that was looking for a specific niche skillset where at the time, one of the industry experts (see time at AWS).

It’s a shit show out here right now. If you have a generic skillset - full stack developer, mobile developer, etc or even “worked at BigTech as a generic mid level developer” - all the resume optimizations don’t help.

I’m not sure what the secret is besides the cliched (but good) advice to leverage your network when you are looking for a job and don’t be a “ticket taker” while working.
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-02 15:24:14+00:00
Lol. I was leading development of a project that did everything his project Vy does and much more, before my company experienced a hostile takeover and I was squeezed out so they could pivot to a shitass AI sex bot company that ultimately ran through our warchest and failed. That was back in 2022-2023.

Maybe I need to get one of these recruitment agents.
by luke-stanley | 2025-08-02 15:24:42+00:00
If Wired wants to portray normal access to Anthropic's API platform as a special fringe activity, rather than a normal way to programmatically use AI, it really says something about Wired. And this is Hacker News, right? Should we be on some watch list or something for thinking having control via API access is normal dev access!? MCP isn't even that old yet! ;D It's possible to write clearly and not that hard, I'm pretty sure they are hyping.
by azotov | 2025-08-02 15:25:01+00:00
I became tired of manually adding numerous school trips, dentist appointments, service reminders to my calendar, Gmail never detects them.

So I built a simple calendar bot: forward an email with event info, and it replies with a calendar invite.

Runs on AWS Lambda with SES, verifies email authenticity, uses OpenAI for parsing. Open source, based on aws-lambda-ses-forwarder.
by tacostakohashi | 2025-08-02 15:25:37+00:00
At a BigCo - sure, they have entire teams of dozens of people just for "messaging engineering" or "storage" or ldap/directory/identity, or email/messaging/telephony, etc.

It can be a bit mindblowing how many people are dedicated to seemingly mundane tasks at megacorps like making the phones work, making email work, making printers work, making sure the right people can badge in and out of the right doors at the right time, etc... all of which are not trivial at a megacorp scale.
by johnfn | 2025-08-02 15:25:39+00:00
I don't buy this explanation. There are plenty of things you can do together that don't cost very much - or anything at all. You can go take a hike. You can go to the park and hang out, or play a board game. You can go to a court and play pickleball. Heck, go to the library! All these things are free and many people do them.
by monktastic1 | 2025-08-02 15:25:51+00:00
I wouldn't be so quick to divide the world so neatly into victims and perpetrators. Every FAANG engineer I know, for example, could easily retire by mid-40s by keeping consumption in check. Instead, nearly every single one chose instead to "improve their lifestyles." Not blaming them, either, because it's cultural programming -- but until we all learn to slow down a bit and reflect, the madness isn't going to stop.
by doug_durham | 2025-08-02 15:26:50+00:00
I can't imaging losing weight consistently without exercise. Diet is most important. However even for the most obsessed of us counting calories is difficult to get right all of the time. Muscle mass consumes calories and exercise creates a deficit. Both provide margin that help account for calorie counting mistakes. I find that exercise forms a virtuous cycle in dieting. If I go on a 500 calorie bike ride that's 500 more calories I can eat that day.
by thefaux | 2025-08-02 15:26:57+00:00
Honestly, I think a lot of this is as much marketing as it is about actual value. This helps the industry narrative about how transformative the tech is. These inflated comp packages perfectly match the inflated claims around the tech. "See this tech is so incredible we are paying people 1 BILLION dollars!"

These types of comp packages also seem designed to create a kind of indentured servitude for the researchers. Instead of forming their own rival companies that might actually compete with facebook, facebook is trying to foreclose that possibility. The researchers get the money, but they are also giving up autonomy. Personally, no amount of money would induce me to work for Zuckerberg.
by al_borland | 2025-08-02 15:27:27+00:00
I haven’t used a flip phones since 2007. Is there a model I can look up to see what the UX is like today, if it’s not just Android?

From the flip phones of old, the iPhone (first gen) was a massive upgrade in terms of UX, imo. A lot of people avoided smart phones, because they thought they’d be too hard to use, but I think they were actually much easier for the basics. That may be less true today than it once was, as they’ve added a lot of complexity over the last 18 years.
by pvtmert | 2025-08-02 15:27:48+00:00
I also agree that it is more useful to semi-pro or amateur riders than the actual pro ones, especially because the formations are quite small (3, 4, and 5 riders) and as you mentioned, usually team cars help out (which is much nicer aerodynamic support than a single rider anyway)

Although, could be useful for the breakaways. I mean, sometimes breakaway forms with handful of riders, still, Pogi could jump into them, but that did not seem to be their (UAE) strategy recently, it was more like: Hold onto the Yellow jersey (GC) as long as possible, and don't take any risks...

As far as I can tell, a similar tactic lead to the Wout van Aert's win at the last stage of Tour de France. From 20km on, the breakaway had ~5 people, Wout waited at he back (essentially a `-==` formation) until the last ~5km, and dropped Pogacar at the climb, then extended nearly a minute difference until the finish.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-02 15:27:57+00:00
From the FAQ:

Q: "I am confused as to why and how you got this, it seems like a mistake or fake?" Answer: As stated above apparently there was some miscommunication when the vehicle was decommissioned. It should have been offered to museums but the sales team did not know what it was. They were told it was just a "Nasa vehicle" they did not know it had any special status, or history. To the sellers they thought it was just a van that could have been for moving laundry around the base. It was an accidental (yet valid) sale. Q: "I see it says 025, were there 24 other vehicles?" Answer: Yes there were 25 other vehicles of different types and all of them were crushed and/or gone.
by nine_k | 2025-08-02 15:27:59+00:00
I won't be surprised if there is an effort to rewrite MSO in something like Dart and WASM, and make it independent from any native toolkits altogether. Yes, to reproduce all of the Excel power, and make it available everywhere as a premium plan of O365.

Then Windows could pull a ChromeOS. The only place where a native UI is really needed is the lock / login screen; a tiny subset of any current UI toolkit would suffice.
by derektank | 2025-08-02 15:28:06+00:00
>I missed coming home to postgame my bad dates with my roommates over a cup of tea.

For whatever reason, I think men are a lot less likely to engage in this kind of social behavior, even if they are roommates. They're also a lot less likely to engage in spontaneous dance parties or enjoy group hip hop twerking exercises. Basically, a lot of the benefits of having roommates that the author describes are experienced far less often by men with roommates
by snozolli | 2025-08-02 15:30:27+00:00
the leather will be still usable whereas the synthetics are "one crash only" type of thing.

Leather may still be usable. Also, one of the primary failure points is the stitching, which is synthetic. It can especially be a problem if the gear is older and dust has abraded the stitching for years, particularly if leather conditioner was used that is oily and attracts dust.

Synthetic can be repaired, which is why it's often worth it to go with a more expensive brand. I've had my Aerostich Roadcrafter for 25 years and it's served me well, though it aged out of their servicing policy a decade ago.
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-02 15:30:53+00:00
Women can be more social, whereas men can be more independent, taken to their respective extremes. Men don't like having to explain their behavior to someone, or want to tolerate anyone else's behavior. Being social was cool back in college, but not since past the age of 35.

Men are fighting hard to improve their resumes/businesses/finances/health, and as such their lives, and they don't need or value idle time spent with roommates coming in the way. The role of a provider weighs more heavily on men.
by benreesman | 2025-08-02 15:31:23+00:00
I'm about to be 41 and likewise very distinctly remember a time when cell phones were a vehicle for organizing the evening or weekend's plans, quickly making a connection with someone you met ("let me get your number"), whatever, buying weed or something. The point was to make friends, get laid, network without calling it that. The idea was that some of those random people would become your crew of friends, one of those girls would become your wife, and you'd end up settled down to kick off the next generation. And I know some people who did end up settled dowm...but not that many, not like the generation right before mine. Kind of hit or miss in my cohort.

Near as I can tell that was still roughly the model on paper if less and less until COVID and lockdown and all that. Something snapped, you can see it walking down the street of any city you knew well before. People never came back outside with the same vigor.

I don't claim to understand the causal structure between all the various factors: the bleak economic prospects, the decline in institutions, the increasingly rapacious and cynical Big Tech cabal, there are a ton of factors.

But COVID before and after, that's when it collectively became too much to easily bounce back from.
by spencerflem | 2025-08-02 15:31:32+00:00
Picking more: they pushed HARD the Claudine Gay story, putting it on the front page ten consecutive days. That story was a manufactured right wing operation to oust her. They also are still very anti-trans.

I am operating on: if they are to the right of mainstream democratic voters, those that won Mamdani the primary and overwhelmingly support Palestine, then they do not get to claim to be left wing.
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-02 15:31:36+00:00
In my state is the federal minimum of $7.25/hr. You're looking at two hours of work for one cocktail.

And my state is addicted to alcohol. The overwhelming majority of people I know in this state won't even meet up with you if there's not a beer waiting for them. People work all week and then spend half their paycheck in one night, then rinse, wash, repeat.

I consider the state of affairs here to be nothing short of abject poverty.

I look around at the declining, unmaintained infrastructure, I hear youth talk about how so many establishments have closed and how if you don't have money there is nothing to do, and you get harassed at parks (I have personally had the police pull up and accost me for just existing at a park) so the only thing left to do is get into mischief, unless you just don't want social contact with your peers. I tell people it looks and feels worse than post-Soviet Eastern Europe out here in Louisiana.
by neom | 2025-08-02 15:31:49+00:00
Not op but for me, not at all, don't care much for religion... "Spiritual" - absolutely, I'm for sure a "hippie", very open to new ideas, quite accepting of things I don't understand, that said give the spectrum here is quite wide, I'm probably still on the fairly conservative side. I've never fallen for a scam, can spot them a mile away etc.
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c | 2025-08-02 15:32:36+00:00
In the US, is it concerning when a "grown man" in his 30s or 40s and beyond still lives with roommates, when dating and trying to attract a mate? Is there an expectation that you should be displaying a certain lifestyle that will attract a partner, and if you're living with a bunch of roommates, you're failing to do that?

I believe that's not the case in many other countries in the world, but what about the US?
by miki123211 | 2025-08-02 15:32:49+00:00
> as long as they know they are talking to a model

Any evidence for this?

It's obvious that a sufficiently advanced AI could solve loneliness if it was allowed to present as human, you just wouldn't know it isn't one. I'm entirely unconvinced that something which seems human in all respects couldn't replace one, even if your brain knows that it's actually AI.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-02 15:33:03+00:00
From the WinUI community calls, I would assert all new employees have zero Windows experience and management doesn't care to give them proper skills.

Too many questions that any Windows developer would know why the question was being asked, where they either couldn't answer or had puzzled looks on why the questions were being asked in first place.

That is also a reason why now there are Webview2 instances all over the place on Windows 11.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-08-02 15:33:17+00:00
The real question is what algorithm is being used to summarize the other conversation threads. I’d be worried that it would accidentally pull in context I deliberately backed out of because of various reasons (eg: it went down the wrong path, wrote bad code, etc)… pulling that “bad context” would pollute the thread with “good context”.

People talk about prompt engineering but honestly “context engineering” is vastly more important to successful LLM use.
by AndrewHart | 2025-08-02 15:33:38+00:00
Thank you! I tried to keep it interesting but not get lost in rabbit holes.

We have around 300 hours of ground-truth data now, in 1-second intervals, which we use for algorithm training and refinement. The same as performing a survey, our team marks their location on the map, then walks to the next location, and through post-processing we can correct any errors and interpolate the locations in between. You can see this process in the diagram with the large black dots, where the user marked their location.
by Hilift | 2025-08-02 15:34:14+00:00
Yes, however it is well documented that some of those issues exist, no one denies that. One of the civilian deaths early on in the Israel/Palestine protests was by a professor of a local college in LA. Perhaps a bigger problem for California is they have 20,000 Chinese students, 36% of international revenue. That will probably drop significantly.

UCLA does some pretty amazing work though. They recently published a study on the Los Angeles "mansion tax" that basically called it a failure. They did that for free, with no grants or funding. That is the kind of actual policy work and studies you would expect to see from a university, and it includes a master class on how modern urban property development works in mature urban areas such as Los Angeles.

Unfortunately work like that is overshadowed by the protesters that hijack other protests and bring in outsiders who cause property damage and violence.

https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/05/14/los-angeless-mansion-t...

https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/the-unintended-consequen...
by saghm | 2025-08-02 15:34:45+00:00
Once you've done this work though, what stops the codebase from slowly drifting back into the less sane realm it previously resided in? It seems pretty reasonable to be concerned that a company that produced a messy codebase once is capable of making it messy again, and given that turnover is inevitable in the long term (which is the timeframe that seems relevant given that long-term compatibility in C++ codebases is kind of the whole reason this discussion is happening), it doesn't seem like relying on an individual to enforce the rules is super viable. The obvious way to enforce this sort of thing is through tooling, and there's no tool more powerful than literally making it impossible to express the undesirable code in the language itself in the first place.

You're right that incrementally rewriting isn't much of an advantage over C++ itself, but I think you're missing the point that the emphasis on "incremental" is to highlight the advantage in rewriting C++ code in Carbon over alternatives that don't provide as much compatibility (with Rust being somewhat notorious for being suggested by outside parties as a target for rewriting in whenever discussions about C++ codebases happen). The argument for Carbon over C++ isn't specifically that it can be rewritten incrementally, but that it's just a better language, which has benefits _after_ the rewrite. To be clear, I'm sure that someone could come up with reasonable objections to that claim as well, but I think it's distinct from the part you're objecting to, and it's worth treating as a separate concern.
by ashoeafoot | 2025-08-02 15:34:55+00:00
Its just leader caste nature, the fear of getting crushed by the momentum of ones "own" uncontrollable leadership running on a riff by situatuonal momentum. One can despair with a opera uniform and a detached steering wheel or run a "tight" ship, whipping the crew (who unlike groaning wood and ocean still obey) till moral improves.
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c | 2025-08-02 15:34:57+00:00
Is there anything one can do to get in on this? Did I have to be at Stanford getting a PhD 10 years ago, or can I somehow still get on the frontier now as a generic software engineer who's pretty good at learning things, and end up working at one of these labs? Or is it impossible to guess exactly what is going to be desirable a few years from now that might get you in the game at that caliber?
by robmensching | 2025-08-02 15:35:14+00:00
We used to say the same thing about Open Source licenses, and that changed. The long-term hope is that enough projects adopt the Open Source Maintenance Fee, or something like it, that it becomes the norm for companies to support the Open Source projects they depend upon.

And you can say that will never happen. But the only way it will _definitely_ never happen is if we don't try... and choose to keep burning out Open Source maintainers.
by doug_durham | 2025-08-02 15:35:27+00:00
My experience aligns with yours. Words like "discipline" come off as moralistic. I know very disciplined people who struggle to lose weight. As someone who lost 40 lbs through long term fixation on calorie counting and exercise, I find it confusing. However when I look in the mirror and consider what I do to maintain my weight I realize that I'm the outlier. It is unrealistic to expect others to adopt my odd lifestyle.
by mxuribe | 2025-08-02 15:35:38+00:00
Man, i love me some Thinkpad laptops!

For me, its the overall sturdiness, the historic ability to more easily swap out components, and the keys and keyboard combo. I haven't had so many Thinkpads as others have had, but of the few i have owned, i think so far the T420 from i think circa 2011 (?) seemed to have the best balance of sturdy boxy goodness and wonderful keys and keyboard. While i would not say that i am a keyboard snob, i can certainly appreciate differences between the different types of keyboards like chiclets, or mechanical dedicated keyboards, etc. I'm sure beyond functional aspects, there is no doubt a nostalgia that i feel for these machines that is solely based on emotion...but who cares, since i always get more value than whatever i paid for them!

On another aspect to this, it feels like Framework laptops has a chance to perhaps capture at least some of the positive sentiment that folks have/had for Thinkpads. I mean, sure, the swap-ability of the components is the most obvious comparison...but, i think Framework has also fostered a following by a community, that, if they play their cards right - and produce good, solid products - can turn into a successor to Thinkpads. I mean, obviously thinkpads are still here and all...but the folks at Framework have a big chance here, and i welcome the competition (since we all win as consumer if there is good, solid choices in the marketplace). Let's hope both Thinkpads and Framework (and any other competitors) keep moving the needle forward to empower users with more options for good solid design, easy/self-repair, component swap-ability, sturdy/dependable hardware, and fair pricing!
by k1t | 2025-08-02 15:35:52+00:00
You are definitely not alone.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic...

Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum who had no previous diagnoses of mental illness, had asked ChatGPT to find flaws with his amateur theory on faster-than-light travel. He became convinced he had made a stunning scientific breakthrough. When Irwin questioned the chatbot’s validation of his ideas, the bot encouraged him, telling him his theory was sound. And when Irwin showed signs of psychological distress, ChatGPT assured him he was fine.

He wasn’t.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-08-02 15:36:16+00:00
You really have to force these things to “not suck your dick” as I’ll crudely tell it. “Play the opposite role and be a skeptic. Tell me why this is a horrible idea”. Do this in a fresh context window so it isn’t polluted by its own fumes.

Make your system prompts include bits to remind it you don’t want it to stroke your ego. For example in my prompt for my “business project” I’ve got:

“ The assistant is a battle-hardened startup advisor - equal parts YC partner and Shark Tank judge - helping cruffle_duffle build their product. Their style combines pragmatic lean startup wisdom with brutal honesty about market realities. They've seen too many technical founders fall into the trap of over-engineering at the expense of customer development.”

More than once the LLM responded with “you are doing this wrong, stop! Just ship the fucker”
by AndrewHart | 2025-08-02 15:36:22+00:00
We've had the solution live in stores for years without any issue. Our algorithms can clean up and filter out unreliable data, based on all of the other data we have, from other APs, from previous data etc..

If they re-fit the WiFi, which they might spend a month doing once every 5-10 years, it would need a re-survey, which could take 1-2 hours. But thankfully no new infrastructure.
by taormina | 2025-08-02 15:36:36+00:00
Gas costs money. The car costs money. You can only do the same hike that's an hour away so many times, before you're traveling to go to new places, and hotels cost money at that point. Pickleball courts cost money. The pickleball equipment costs money. People do go to the library, and then they go home and don't interact with other people.
by smegger001 | 2025-08-02 15:36:52+00:00
If its so valuable why are HBO and Disney killing already produced content making it unavailable (legally) on or off their platform. Why is the Willow TV show (sequel to the classic movie) removed it was one of their flagship early offering when they were starting their streaming service. Why is HBO killing finished movies like Batgirl and Wiley Coyote v Acme for the tax right off if they are such precious valuable content? Why is classic Looney Toons being broken up and sublicensed to everchanging array of shit tier streaming services. none of these moves makes since with the reason given