MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-08-03 16:01:11+00:00
> One of the projects came back with 'just flipping C++20 switch with no changes causes significant regression on build times'.

I think this just proves that your team is highly inexperienced in C++ projects, which you implicitly attest by admitting this was your first C++ upgrade you had to go through.

Let me be very clear: there is never an upgrade of the C++ version targeted by a project that does not require full regression tests and a few bugs to squash. Why? Because even if the C++ side of things is perfectly fine, libraries often introduce all sorts of unexpected issues.

For example, once I had to migrate a legacy project to C++14 and flipping the compiler flag to c++14 caused a wall of compiler errors. It turned out the C++ was perfectly fine, but a single library behaved very poorly with a constexpr constructor they enabled conditionally with C++14.

You should understand that upgrades to the core language and standard libraries are exceptionally stable, and a clear focus of the standardization committee. But they only have a say in how the core language and standard libs should be. The bulk of the code any relatively complex project consumes is not core lang+ stdlib, but third-party libraries and frameworks. These often are riddled with flags to toggle whole components only in specific versions of the C++ language, mainly for backwards compatibility. Once you target a new version of C++, often that means you replace whole components of upstream dependencies. This often requires fixing your code. This happens very frequently, even with the likes of Boost.

So, what you're complaining about is not C++ but your inexperience in software engineering in general. I mean, what is the rule of thumb about major version upgrades?
by techpineapple | 2025-08-03 16:01:34+00:00
“but most people can see a rough line of overall progress.”

This idea is the core to my argument. That the bias of what can you see is creating a false sense of progress. I think my core argument would be progress is an asymptote, so you might say loosely I agree with you (yes of course there are always optimizations you can eke out) but at what cost, and is the asymptote approaching something that looks more like a thing that can solve all problems in theory but not in practice, getting better and better at solving problems in a laboratory, or getting better and better at solving problems we know the answer to, but never gets serious traction at solving novel problems or working in the real world(outside its core skill set; generating text)
by upofadown | 2025-08-03 16:03:06+00:00
The experimental science behind this revolution in understanding the cognition of reading is pretty interesting. One of the things that is done is to switch the text on the screen while the subject is moving their eyes to see how badly it messes up the reading process. Here is an article that talks about this research in relation to the long accepted, but now discredited, idea that word shape is important in reading.

* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-ca/typography/develop/word-re...

BTW, this in turn suggests that the long accepted idea that lower case is easer to read than upper case is also wrong.
by yunwal | 2025-08-03 16:03:24+00:00
Personally if I do anything for 8+ hours a day 5 days a week it starts to feel like a job around 2 or 3 months in no matter how much I love it, and if I do much less than that I start to feel lacking in structure and progress.

I’ve gone through extended periods of unemployment (by choice, not in a stressful way) before, and it’s wonderful but by month 3 I’m always kinda over it.

Retirement for me will probably look pretty much the same as working except I won’t necessarily pick a job that pays well.
by dclowd9901 | 2025-08-03 16:03:36+00:00
I've been sick so often now (thanks kids) that I can feel _immediately_ when something is coming on. Rather than be down and useless at home and work for 2 or 3 more days, I tag out, go to bed and usually knock it out in a night. I feel like that's way better for me and everyone else overall.
by jumagrande | 2025-08-03 16:03:37+00:00
Hello!

The truth is that I cannot control the fraudulent use that users may make of the project.

The main objective is to improve the appearance of the image without modifying the product. As a seller, I would feel like I was cheating the customer if I used it to modify the product.

Would you take a different approach to the presentation or limit the generation of images in some way?

Thank you for your feedback. Best regards.
by freeourdays | 2025-08-03 16:03:54+00:00
Many individuals with valuable skills and passions aspire to start a side business for extra income or personal fulfillment, but are frequently stopped by overwhelming complexity.They face a daunting maze of administrative, legal, and marketing tasks without a clear starting point or a structured plan.This uncertainty about crucial first steps—like business registration, tax implications, finding clients, and pricing services—leads to inaction, leaving their entrepreneurial potential untapped and their ideas unrealized.

A centralized digital platform can solve this by providing a guided, step-by-step roadmap for launching a side hustle. This service would offer personalized checklists that break down the entire process into manageable tasks, from initial idea validation to making the first sale.It would also integrate bite-sized learning modules on essential business skills, a curated directory of necessary tools, and access to a support community, effectively demystifying entrepreneurship and empowering users to confidently turn their passion into a profitable venture.
by latchkey | 2025-08-03 16:04:05+00:00
As a CEO 'manager' myself, I try to let people just be. Getting too granular about person vs. topic and redirecting people to the right room sucks the fun out of everything. Let people mess up and post in the wrong place, who cares?

OP's post was about a great experience 'tremendous value' they had and now you're pooping on it with 'manager' opinions. Read what you wrote from the employee perspective, you're sounding like the self-appointed fun police.

Update: Cue the downvotes from the managers.
by theluketaylor | 2025-08-03 16:04:14+00:00
North American fire departments are among the biggest blockers of urban road safety improvements here, demanding huge lanes for huge trucks. Those lanes leave tons of space for other drivers, leaving them feeling safe to speed, resulting in more carnage when pedestrians are hit.

Those huge trucks are also all custom built chassis and incredibly expensive.

European fire departments using customized versions of off the shelf commercial vehicles are so much more sensible for urban spaces and don't need to drive transportation decisions.
by andrewflnr | 2025-08-03 16:05:06+00:00
I think "ancient disasters" must be referring to the Late Heavy Bombardment, which is the only putative disaster I know of that could have sterilized the surface. Though it was supposed to fully re-liquefy the crust, so even underground life surviving would be dicey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment
by pessimizer | 2025-08-03 16:06:09+00:00
I don't understand this. I use a laptop that I don't want to carry many files on, and that I often bring with me when I leave the house. I have NAS at home to hold my data and run services, including CI. It seems perfectly fine, even wonderful. I use mdadm and cryptsetup, which are non-proprietary pieces of software that set up simple, documented drive formats that are easily recoverable with simple/normal tools if there is a problem.

I have no idea how having a NAS would make somebody hip. Very strange disco. Everybody should have one.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-08-03 16:06:15+00:00
Well, as we speak, Apple is still one of the most valuable companies in the world, shareholder-value-wise and (most importantly) consumer-preference-wise.

So, being an absolute Apple-skeptic, I don't blame them for not having a crystal-clear future direction right now. VR/AR? Nah, probably not happening. AI? Probably huge, but in which direction? Who knows? And they've got products in all these markets, just not obviously compelling ones.

So, a holding pattern is more than warranted at this point. Will this allow anyone to bypass Apple? Possibly, but the chance/hope of Apple front-running everyone else is definitely still alive.
by elmerfud | 2025-08-03 16:06:17+00:00
I'm not the person who gave you the original feedback but reading through this it looks like some high school student who got a c in their physics and chemistry classes then used some psychoactive chemicals and believe that they had a mind expanding moment that thousands upon thousands of PhDs have suddenly missed.

"Understanding the Universe There is no universal speed limit. The universe itself has a lot of similaries to a cell: a central projector/receptor, networks of safety tubes, patterns driven by mixes of figure 8 pitchers and catchers, bumpers, routers, pattern recognizers, and pattern restorers.

Dark material fluid has the potential to transmit memories across space, time, and even universe lifetimes"

That's a quote from your post. Honestly it looks a lot like AI consumed the new age bullshit generator and spit out something. https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/

There's nothing scientific about your writings. Nothing in your writings attempt to evaluate anything using any scientific methodologies. You use anecdotes and analogies, to things that are not analogous, to underpin your points. If someone did not know that the things you are relating are not analogous it may seem smart, but there's a reason this stuff gets dismissed as pseudoscientific. It looks like something that would be great to establish a sci-fi universe around and writes stories about. If anything is actually related to true science it only happens by mere chance.
by tiffanyh | 2025-08-03 16:06:21+00:00
> "the site itself won’t be going anywhere for a while"

Seems people focused too much on the phrase "I am happy to report".

When the actual key phrase people missed was "for a while".

In hindsight, that implies knowledge it would be shutdown at some future date.

And while many people understand "indefinitely" to mean "unlimited", it also has a secondary meaning of "unspecified period of time".
by cbeach | 2025-08-03 16:07:57+00:00
I wouldn't say she was in a vulnerable position at all. Like Jon, she was already a conference speaker and a Scala group organiser. Really, she wasn't below Jon in any hierarchy.

In her blog post she makes out as if she was naive and fresh to the Scala ecosystem, as a non-native English speaker. I don't buy it at all, given this is her in 2018 giving a confident Scala talk in perfect English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq9YbTeOkjA
by Scoundreller | 2025-08-03 16:08:00+00:00
The studies I’ve seen that say months or a small number of years specially look at older adult admissions, so may exclude a lot of dementia patients.

US study:

> The mean age of decedents was 83.3 (SD 9.0) and the majority were female (59.12%), and White (81.5%). Median and mean length of stay prior to death were 5 months (IQR 1-20) and 13.7 months (SD 18.4), respectively. Fifty-three percent died within 6 months of placement. Large differences in median length of stay were observed by gender (men, 3 months vs. women, 8 months) and net worth (highest quartile, 3 months vs. lowest quartile, 9 months) (all p<.001). These differences persisted after adjustment for age, sex, marital status, net worth, geographic region, and diagnosed chronic conditions (cancer, hypertension, diabetes, lung disease, heart disease, and stroke).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2945440/

Danish Study:

> The median survival after nursing home admission was 25.8 months, with the 3-year survival being 37%.

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/49/1/67/5639744

Tbh, there’s a lot of data on this because it’s easy to measure.
by low_tech_punk | 2025-08-03 16:08:44+00:00
That blog is the student notes from a famous MIT Media Arts & Sciences class called HTMAA. Course website: https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MAS.863/

Lex Fridmen has a podcast with the professor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF35Udv1DBU
Show HN: Jobswithgpt, browse and search job openings
by jobswithgptcom | 2025-08-03 16:09:16+00:00
Web: https://jobswithgpt.com New iOS app for US: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jobswithgpt/id6749220743?platf... Please checkout https://jobswithgpt.com and https://jobswithgpt.com/jobs/by-category/ It indexes 1M+ job listings publicly available on the internet. The idea is to surface some of these listings that are normally buried under sponsored listings in popular sites. From my own exp as a engineering manager, this should hopefully help people looking for work. Appreciate any feedback!
by therealpygon | 2025-08-03 16:09:16+00:00
That assumes you are trying to compress every bit of information ingested at all times. We have a document so we can reference it, we don’t need video of the steps to create it. If we know we drove to work and nothing significant happened, we don’t need to store every detail from the drive.

When distilled, most people’s days consist of very few actual newly discovered facts, decisions and changes to context.
by andrewrn | 2025-08-03 16:09:51+00:00
Sewing feels so underrated to me. Nobody talks about it.

I had a little stint doing sewing projects and I found that I could make totally legitimate, durable, functional outdoor gear in a single weekend (~15 hrs) from zero experience. As functional and close to as attractive as something you'd buy at REI. I think the nice industrial machine I was on helped, but still!
by yieldcrv | 2025-08-03 16:11:46+00:00
Furthering the tangent, its annoying that parties’ primary goal is to gain influence, but in the US one party’s adherents pick a fairly random rights issue and vilify you if that’s not your particular top cause at that random point in time. It would be one thing if that approach worked to gain influence, but it doesn’t. Instead they then say “what!? All of our core demographics picked the party with character traits that are irrelevant to the job and that wasn’t a big enough turn off to prioritize our completely random not even opposite cause? you’re the problem!” when they could focus on causes that individual people actually prioritize. form coalitions. gain influence.

But, fortunately they are just losing supporters as people opt out of fealty to any party. Independents are the largest voting bloc now, although they have partisan leanings, they are underrepresented.
by api | 2025-08-03 16:12:46+00:00
I agree except the part about the new oligarchs doing the manipulating. I think they are manipulating themselves, sucked into these brain rot machines as much as anyone.

I heard a Thiel interview recently where he ranted about Greta Thunberg and the antichrist and used a bunch of very online Xhitter bubble terms like referring to low efficacy as “low-T” and I was like this guy needs to touch grass. It didn’t even make a lot of sense.
by al_borland | 2025-08-03 16:13:03+00:00
Google has been building Gemini into YouTube and I've been seeing things like this pop up in the normal YouTube UI (as a Premium subscriber). A few times now I will see a video that looks interesting, but it 20 minutes long. Under it is an AI summary that answers the question the title poses and saves me 20 minutes. For videos that don't have the automatic AI summary, there is an option in (some) videos to bring up an AI chat which can summarize a video or answer specific question about it.

The results are hit and miss right now. I have the feeling that it gets the video context based on the video description and comments, not the video itself.

I toyed around with something for my own use, where I downloaded the subtitles of a video, put the subtitles together into something semi-readable, then ran that through AI to create a properly readable version of the video. This all worked pretty well. That article could then be summarized if wanted. It was a one-time proof of concept. I may make it into an Apple Shortcut once they release macOS 26 and their AI writing tools are in the Shortcuts app. I mostly did this because it was something my dad said he wanted and I wanted to show him he could do it today if he really wanted. It didn't take that long to throw together.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-03 16:13:14+00:00
I came here to say this. Reddit has the absolute worst built-in search engine I've come across in a very long time. If they can't even fix that, I doubt their ability to execute on becoming a search engine.

I think they also really need to think about why people are going to Reddit for information. It's because for a long time it was one of the last bastions on the internet that hasn't been completely corrupted by fake content. If you wanted REAL suggestions on what TV to buy, you can search google and get SEO-gamed BS that you can't trust or you could go to Reddit and see what real people with real experience are saying. Here's the problem - this advantage is going away because Reddit has a HUGE bot problem that they are unwilling to deal with. In 2025, you can still sign up and post on the site without even so much as an email address. Just enter a fake one and you can click "skip verification" to bypass email verification and jump straight to posting. You can also go onto any of a number of website and purchase high karma accounts for next to nothing. This is insane, and tells me that they know a large percent of their user base is bots and eliminating them would likely crash their stock as it would become clear that they have nowhere near as many users as they claim. This is eventually going to erode the authenticity that people come to Reddit for in the first place.
by BadCookie | 2025-08-03 16:13:14+00:00
No, it’s not. Yes, we have Medicaid in the U.S., which makes everything free for the poor, but GP is saying that effectively everybody (including the not-so-poor) can get this level of care in Hong Kong. Definitely not true in the U.S.!

Pricing transparency also does not exist here as GP is claiming it does in Hong Kong. I am supposed to get certain imaging tests done every year, and I never know how much those will cost me until after I have already done them (in the U.S.). Maybe there is some way to get a non-binding estimate ahead of time, but I have never received such a thing and am not even sure it is possible. So I can’t easily “shop around”—or if can, tell me how because I (and I think most people) don’t know how.

I most certainly cannot pay $300 to see a specialist the same day in the U.S. I would have to pay that much to see my GP after waiting 6 weeks despite my employer paying more than $20k/year to insure my family. To see a specialist, I would have to wait a few months and probably pay $1-2k for one visit, not counting any tests or imaging that is ordered.

The description of Hong Kong’s system sounds amazing if true.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-03 16:13:34+00:00
I’ve rented skis in the US for a weekend out skiing, and of course they are usually pretty beat up (to be expected), and I don’t expect any amazing performance (wasted on me anyway). But, they are taking about something that seems a bit different, renting skis for a whole season. Almost seems more like leasing a car vs renting one?
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-03 16:14:44+00:00
Metering is great for defined processes. I love AWS because I can align cost with business. In the old days it was often hard and an internal political process. Some saleschick would shake the assets at a director and now I’m eating the cost for some network gear i don’t need.

But for users, that fine grained cost is not good, because you’re forcing a user to be accountable with metrics that aren’t tied to their productivity. When I was an intern in the 90s, I was at a company that required approval to make long distance phone calls. Some bureaucrat would assess whether my 20 minute phone call was justified and could charge me if my monthly expense was over some limit. Not fun.

Flat rate is the way to go for user ai, until you understand the value in the business and the providers start looking for margin. If I make a $40/hr analyst 20% more productive, that’s worth $16k of value - the $200/mo ChatGPT Pro is a steal.
by Jerry2 | 2025-08-03 16:14:56+00:00
I'm convinced that Tim Cook's biggest mistake was not creating an EV. Just look at how Chinese manufacturers like Xiaomi and BYD have moved into the EV space and have created amazing experiences for their customers. CarPlay paired with American cars is simply few generations behind from what the Chinese companies have done. Yet Apple was early enough and had an EV team but Cook killed it. Even if the 1st gen was crap and didn't live up to the Apple's standards, they should have kept iterating. Now they have nothing new and are just iterating current product lines. Which is fine but it doesn't create new growth. You need new markets to do that.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-03 16:14:56+00:00
That doesn’t sound like a roll of the dice or anything.

I’d wondered how that was handled, as a religious object. It’s obviously more important to the holder than my pocketknife is to me, and I have zero concern about a Sikh person carrying one anywhere. They’re not going to bust that out. And yet, it is a knife.

Probably the closest I’ve been that that was flying home from our wedding with the cake knife in my carryon. The TSA agent’s eyes widened when I hold him the shadow on the X-ray was a cake knife, but then I took it out and showed him how it was a ceremonial thing and wouldn’t break skin. Then the agent laughed and sent us along our way. A Kirpan isn’t so delicate, though.
by mattmcknight | 2025-08-03 16:15:01+00:00
I am trying to explore the ways in which the IPO, in particular, separate from the continued operation of the company, is evidence that blocking M&A is good. I have seen nothing from you supporting Khan's position that the IPO is vindication for blocking M&A.

Her particular claim was that it was "a great reminder that letting startups grow into independently successful businesses, rather than be bought up by existing giants, can generate enormous value.” However, the IPO price was $700M less than the value the company was at three years ago, which, given opportunity costs and inflation, would not seem to be an indicator of enormous value being generated.
Show HN: Precog - chat w pdfs, edit papers, use any model [video]
by ieuanking | 2025-08-03 16:15:40+00:00
Students do not benefit from chatbots, and neither do high-level researchers. Unlike other chatbots, Precog can mark up PDFs by making highlighted notes you can refrence when prompting using the @ sign -- just like cursor. We want more out of AI chatbots than echo chamber conversations and are astonished at the amount of poor work published often through the use of LLMs that help produce meritless work. Building AI agents for research means focusing less on generation and more on analysis tools for work production and human thinking.

Check out the demo video attached, and if you are interested, definitely try out Precog!

https://app.ubik.studio/chat?agent=precog
by marvinrussell | 2025-08-03 16:17:03+00:00
Google has made it clear: they care about the quality of the content, not whether it’s written by a human or AI. Their ranking systems reward original, high-quality work that shows expertise, experience, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-E-A-T). If your content is genuinely helpful and credible, how it’s produced doesn’t matter.
by RedNifre | 2025-08-03 16:17:22+00:00
We did something like that on a private Minecraft server 15 years ago, where everybody was required to have an identi.ca account for this server (status.net, like mastodon today). All messages appeared posted to the walls of a large library building in the middle of the world and people could post to their accounts from the ingame chat.

It worked really well for about half the people, the other half ignored it completely.

I wouldn't mind if today's office chats like Teams or Slack added a microblogging feature where you could subscribe to interesting colleagues.