MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by staticshock | 2026-01-30 01:26:46+00:00
Instead, the approach that will continue increasing in dominance is hiring referrals and finding jobs through personal networks.

In a world that increasingly resembles The Library of Babel,

- the main way to know what's true is to tune into news sources you trust (monolithic old school media, or personality driven new-school media, social media, etc.),

- the main way to learn what to watch/listen/read is to take recommendations from people you trust, or received through channels you trust,

- the main way to hire or get hired is, increasingly, by exploiting a network of people you trust.

All of this compensates for ambient oversaturation by using the best available (and tunable!) desaturation filter: your trust network.
by jbmilgrom | 2026-01-30 01:26:50+00:00
Author here

We are building this at docflowlabs ie a self-healing system that can respond to customer feedback automatically. And youre right that not all customers know what they want or even how to express it when they do, which is why the agent loop we have facing them is way more discovery-focused than the internal one.

And we currently still have humans in the loop for everything (for now!) - e.g, the agent does not move onto implementation until the root cause has been approved
by windexh8er | 2026-01-30 01:26:52+00:00
If this were the case Waymo would already be gone. Tesla, under Musk, has missed a big opportunity. The claims of FSD "next year", by Musk for the past decade, fall on deaf ears now. While Waymo was focusing on building it Musk was multi-tasking and letting Tesla falter. RIP Tesla and what could have been. The reality is more clearly that Tesla could have been an amazing EV platform in totality. Instead they are being beaten in: driverless, PSD/FSD, and home energy production & storage. The only thing Tesla has a real lead in is still their EV power distribution footprint. I wouldn't be surprised to see that sold off in the next 5 years given their direction.
by sp1982 | 2026-01-30 01:27:34+00:00
I am tracking AI mentions in jobs - https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/ai_jobs_jan_2026/.

I see some evidence that hardware roles expect you to leverage AI tools but not sure why it'd eliminate junior roles. I expect the bar on what you can do raise at every level.

Example job mentioning AI:
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Sandisk/744000104267635-tec...

Technologist, ASIC Development Engineering – Sandisk
…CPU complex, DDR, Host, Flash, Debug, Clocks, resets, Power domains etc. Familiarity in leveraging AI tools, including GitHub Copilot, for design and development.

Entry level:
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/8390171002?gh_j...
Show HN: A website that summarises all adopted texts of EU parliament
by krzysiek | 2026-01-30 01:28:11+00:00
I live in the EU, and I was often asking myself what is actually going on in the EU institutions. I don't trust news that much, if not for other reasons then because of a strong bias towards extremes - you just can't learn what's the regular stuff an institution is working on. Then the original sources are incomprehensible for me - that's often a legal document with one sentence of like 8k words.

So I built EUforYa as some kind of an interface for what's going on in the parliament. I believe every EU citizen should have access to that. Right now I publish every adopted text. I plan to focus on the EU commission next, but even just the parliament summaries already give me a sense of what's going on in there.

As politicians often explain what's the legislation about, or what issues they see in a resolution, I fetch also all their social media posts and I translate them to English.

I think the website will be English for a while, but I plan to introduce i18n for all 24 official languages of the EU sooner or later.

I wonder especially:
- Do you find it useful?
- Do you find the style and language (focusing a lot on "young adults" - as the name slightly suggests) appealing or not?
- Are the articles interesting for you (considering that I specifically try to make sure they are not sensational)?
- What would make this service even more useful for you?
by Magmalgebra | 2026-01-30 01:28:26+00:00
> get a lot of junk applications, but frankly, it is your job to sort through them.

But this isn't their job. Their job is to hire someone who passes the hiring bar. If they can do that without ever looking at a random resume everyone at the company is happy.

An unstated thesis of the article is that several years from now people who want to accomplish that job just won't look at resumes submitted online - whatever anyone's feelings about it.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-30 01:28:50+00:00
That the Cybertruck would fail wasn't common sense. It failed because it sucked. I was supposed to be tough but it crumbled apart, and it didn't meet the European safety standards. Its design while controversial, had personality, problem is that it is the personality of Elon Musk, it was great when he was popular, but that popularity dropped sharply during the last years.

Niche buyers are fine, Ferrari makes a lot of money doing just that, and cars made for the masses are not always successful

Also, I am not a big fan of small EVs, and I live in Europe and I like small cars. Problem with small EVs is the range. Batteries are big, heavy, and expensive. It is fine in bigger, higher-end cars like what Tesla makes, but on a smaller, budget-friendly car, you have to make compromises, and consumers may demand a price too low to make good profit. So it is not guaranteed to be a market worth taking, especially if you have to compete on price against the Chinese.
by deaux | 2026-01-30 01:28:51+00:00
You're right, the results are completely as expected.

The article also doesn't mention that they don't know how the compressed index output quality. That's always a concern with this kind of compression. Skills are just another, different kind of compression. One with a much higher compression rate and presumably less likely to negatively influence quality. The cost being that it doesn't always get invoked.
by lysace | 2026-01-30 01:29:34+00:00
Prediction: In true Google fashion they will never spend enough time on this really cool tech demo to make it really useful in any way.

In 6-12 months they will announce another really cool tech demo. And so on.

They have been doing this for decades. To us this seems like the starting point of something really cool. To them it's a delivery; finally time to move on to something else.
Show HN: GLinksWWW – A student-built retro browser with a 9-slot multi-clipboard
by RioBurhan | 2026-01-30 01:29:54+00:00
Hi HN,
I'm a student developer who loves retro aesthetics and privacy. A few days ago, I shared my browser "gLinksWWW" here, but I received some valid concerns about sharing files via Google Drive.
Taking your advice to heart, I have now officially open-sourced the project and moved everything to GitHub.
Why I built this:
I wanted a browser that felt like the old days but handled modern privacy needs.
9-Slot Multi-Clipboard: My favorite feature. Copy 9 different things and paste them using Ctrl + 1~9. As a student, this saves me so much time when researching and coding.
Privacy by Default: No history, no tracking. I built it because I wanted to feel safe while browsing.
Lightweight & Retro: It's designed to be fast and has that nostalgic UI.
Since I am still learning, the code might not be perfect, but I've put a lot of heart into it. I’d be honored if you could check out the repository, and any feedback (or a Star!) would mean the world to me.
GitHub: https://github.com/rio719/gLinksWWW-browser?tab=readme-ov-fi...
Releases: https://github.com/rio719/gLinksWWW-browser/releases/tag/v1....

Thank you for helping me become a better developer!
by syphia | 2026-01-30 01:29:57+00:00
A case study of myself as an overeager math student:

I used to focus so much on finding "elegant" proofs of things, especially geometric proofs. I'd construct elaborate diagrams to find an intuitive explanation, sometimes disregarding gaps in logic.

Then I gave up, and now I appreciate the brutal pragmatism of using Euler's formula for anything trigonometry-related. It's not a very elegant method, if accounting for the large quantity of rote intermediate work produced, but it's far more effective and straightforward for dealing with messy trig problems.
by shin_lao | 2026-01-30 01:30:24+00:00
In the US, you can just get a refund if you decide not to fly (by law) or a rebooking.

Premium airlines usually offer you compensation: a meal, and a voucher for a hotel stay, depending on the cause of the delay. Very likely miles or voucher for a future flight.

If your flight is to or from EU, you are entitled to more compensation by law IIRC.
by tptacek | 2026-01-30 01:30:41+00:00
Maybe this is just the programmer in me but it really feels like the difference between an abstract syntax tree and an IR is apposite here. You're evaluating at the wrong level. But also: who's to say the bus didn't decide to blow up all by itself? The bus can be the agent, the same way the volcano is.

If you think that couldn't happen, you never rode in my 2011 Audi A6 that blew up on the Ike, and that I parked in a CPD parking lot, flames jumping out from under the hood, and walked away from like a fucking Batman villain, clicking the key fob just to hear it go "beep-boop-beep" one last time.
by parl_match | 2026-01-30 01:32:39+00:00
A vehicle can't go 10 to 15 miles per hour at the same time. If it was going 15, then it should have been going 10. Or driving further away from occluded spaces. And again, routing away from schools.

The simple fact is that it hit a child and even though it wasn't a serious issue due to their safety policies, there's still room for improvement in these technologies.

And since it's a robot, and not a human, you can actually make changes and have them stick. For example, routing away from schools during certain hours.
by lmm | 2026-01-30 01:32:40+00:00
> I think the humans in London at least do not adjust their behaviour for the perceived risk!

The evidence is that they do though. E.g. the Exhibition Road remodelling (removing curbs/signs/etc.) has been a great success and effectively reduced vehicle speeds, e.g. https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/sites/default/files/media/documents/...
by dmix | 2026-01-30 01:32:54+00:00
In Canada there was a big court case in 2016 over the civil right of "right to a speedy trial" where the courts said it had to be within 18 months for charges in provincial courts, which is where most crime ends up. During COVID there was a giant backlog of trials created and a criminal lawyer I know told me half of her clients in recent years got their cases stayed (thrown out) because of this backlog. This apparently happened all over the country and included tons people who were charged for violent crimes.

https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/16057/i...
by kittikitti | 2026-01-30 01:33:27+00:00
In my last job search, I sent out a few dozen resumes utilizing snail mail. It was from a job board that searched for job descriptions that only accepted applications through physical mail. There were some big tech companies I was able to apply to. Ultimately, I didn't get a role from snail mail but it was an interesting process. I would probably expose myself if I detailed the specific service I used, but you can lookup online tools where you upload a PDF and they print it out and send it to an address for like $1 each (more for certified, priority, etc.) and I confirmed it worked. I even had companies mail me back rejection letters, so that was a first.
by yongjik | 2026-01-30 01:34:13+00:00
The whole point of the article is that there's no such thing like "functionally passive" and people will invariably twist themselves into knots if they actually try to give it a, let's say, functional definition.

You could simply say "You must be clear who did what" and it would be as good an advice as any, but people have to shove in "passive" into the advice, which serves no purpose and just makes things more confusing.
by cobolcomesback | 2026-01-30 01:35:52+00:00
I travel for work often (used to do it every week but now it’s once-ish a month), and fly business every now and then. I don’t think I’ve ever met any fellow work flyers who wanted the flying experience to be more focused on the “business aspect”. The lounge is for relaxing, and the comfortable seat on the plane is so I can sleep and not be a zombie when I land. I’ll work when I get to the destination, not while traveling.
by 5o1ecist | 2026-01-30 01:35:53+00:00
Holy effing shit you are literally talking about me right now! LOL I've spent all day improving a LoRA further and further exactly because I need her skin and hair to look a lot more real than is generally available, for exactly your stated reason! :D

Edit: I've registered just for your comment! Ahaahahaha, cheers! :D
by thfuran | 2026-01-30 01:36:31+00:00
As I understand it, they’re only legally required to offer it in the US if the delay is caused by mechanical, staffing, or other issues in their control, but not if e.g. outgoing fights flights are grounded due to weather. They do tend to give lodging at least if you’re stuck at a layover even for weather though. But they also usually try to get out of their obligation to pay for bumping people off over booked flights by reverse auctioning with company credit.
by eslaught | 2026-01-30 01:37:05+00:00
Not the same industry but at least one literary agent does this: if you physically print and mail your book proposal, they will respond with a short but polite, physical rejection letter if they reject you.

But I think it's a generational thing. The younger agents I know of just shut down all their submissions when they get overwhelmed, or they start requiring everyone to physically meet them at a conference first.
by crabmusket | 2026-01-30 01:37:28+00:00
What's not clear to me is how aggregate preferences about entertainment media should affect my choice of entertainment media. TFA is worded to suggest that because "nobody" reads fiction, it should be dismissed when considering what to read.

I'm perfectly willing to accept that most people prefer Netflix to Umberto Eco. However, I don't. And that is one reason I reject the analysis in the article.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-30 01:37:51+00:00
It came up for me and accepted a photo, but it has just been stuck in the "Don't go anywhere, it's almost ready" state for 10+ minutes.

No idea how long it is supposed to take. They can pull a 3D world out of thin air but they apparently can't vibe-code a progress bar...

Edit: Now it's saying "We'll notify you when it's ready, and you'll have 30 seconds to enter your world." Lame-o.
Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-30 01:38:15+00:00
So I'm trying to submit a resume to Apple, but to do so, I need an AppleId. Okay. I try to sign up for one and discover my phone number has been used by someone else. I dropped into the local Apple Store (who supposedly have the ability to reset or create AppleIds) but, spoiler alert, after two hours they couldn't figure out why my phone number won't work.

Does anyone know if there's a way to create an AppleId w/o a phone number? Apple's public docs say it's impossible.

Maybe there's an email alias I can use to submit my resume instead of buying an iProduct?

I guess I could get a dirt cheap sim for my (non-apple) phone and use it for a day, just to sign up for a new AppleId. But somehow this seems... wrong. It also seems unreasonable for a company to force me to buy an $1000 device just for the privilege of submitting my resume.

[edit: Forgot to mention, I own precisely zero iProducts.]
by luses | 2026-01-30 01:38:57+00:00
you're exactly right. the fixation on human vs AV error rates completely misses the point. even if we achieve 'perfect' AVs, mixing heavy machinery with children guarantees conflict. physics dictate cars can't stop instantly. the only solution is removing cars, not better drivers.

most commenters here are ignoring the structural incentives. the long term threat of waymo isn't safety, its the enclosure of public infrastructure. these companies are building a permission structure to lobby personal vehicles and public transit off the road.

transportation demand is inelastic. if we allow a transition where mobility is captured by private platforms, the consumer loses all leverage. the endgame is the american healthcare model: capture the market, kill alternatives, and extract max rent because the user has no choice. we need dense urban cores and mass transit, not a dependency on rent seeking oligopolies
by wrqvrwvq | 2026-01-30 01:40:13+00:00
For completeness, the transitive active might be "The terrorist blew up the bus".
In the intransitive case you can infer the reflexive case (agent acting upon itself), "The bus blew itself up". Some languages have a formal "middle voice" for reflexion.

English lacks a formal middle and there is a good deal of established literature on verbal aspects where the subject is not really the agent called "ergative".

There is utility in comparing "the bus exploded", perhaps unclear as to the agent, but language is not an agent game. It's trying to convey information, which is clear enough in these cases.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-30 01:41:12+00:00
> In the case of TFA the intervention is part of habitat management -- preserving the species in the face of human encroachment, or even just in the face of encroachment that occurred even if no further encroachment is allowed. That seems to me like a reasonable justification for the pain caused in that case,

Agree. Similar story about elephants, who can wreck havoc on an ecosystem. Culling them is a good practice.
by boogrpants | 2026-01-30 01:41:26+00:00
> I think they excel at outputting echoes of their training data that best fit (rhyme with, contextually) the prompt they were given.

Just like people who get degrees in economics or engineering and engage in such role-play for decades. They're often pretty bad at anything they are not trained on.

Coincidentally, if you put a single American English speaker on a team of native German language speakers you will notice information transference falls apart.

Very normal physical reality things occurring in two substrates, two mediums. As if there is a shared limitation called the rest of the universe attempting to erode our efforts via entropy.

LLM is a distribution of human generated data sets. Since humans have the same incompleteness problems in society this affords enough statistical wiggle room for LLMs to make shit up; humans do it! Look in their data!

We're massively underestimating realities indifference to human existence.

There is no doing any better until we effectively break physics, by that I really mean come upon a game changing discovery that informs us we had physics all wrong to begin with.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-30 01:42:10+00:00
Is it? I genuinely don’t know, this is the first thing I’ve heard about a national shutdown and the source link doesn’t point me towards any more information. Is this a nonprofit thing or does it have broader currency? Has it been in the works for a while and I just didn’t hear about it? If I tell my boss I’m going on strike tomorrow morning, will I be one of many or one of one?
by rmunn | 2026-01-30 01:42:14+00:00
For negligence that results in the death of a human being, many legal systems make a distinction between negligent homicide and criminally negligent homicide. Where the line is drawn depends on a judgment call, but in general you're found criminally negligent if your actions are completely unreasonable.

A good example might be this. In one case, a driver's brakes fail and he hits and kills a pedestrian crossing the street. It is found that he had not done proper maintenance on his brakes, and the failure was preventable. He's found liable in a civil case, because his negligence led to someone's death, but he's not found guilty of a crime, so he won't go to prison. A different driver was speeding, driving at highway speeds through a residential neighborhood. He turns a corner and can't stop in time to avoid hitting a pedestrian. He is found criminally negligent and goes to prison, because his actions were reckless and beyond what any reasonable person would do.

The first case was ordinary negligence: still bad because it killed someone, but not so obviously stupid that the person should be in prison for it. The second case is criminal negligence, or in some legal systems it might be called "reckless disregard for human life". He didn't intend to kill anyone, but his actions were so blatantly stupid that he should go to prison for causing the pedestrian's death.
by mmh0000 | 2026-01-30 01:42:37+00:00
Posted "January 29, 2026"

Seriously... If y'all want a general strike, we need:

* 2 weeks' notice to plan
* Conditions for when the strike ends

Assuming this even got enough traction to catch on, one 3-day weekend isn't going to do anything.

This almost feels like "corporate manipulation": Let the slaves "have a day" to cool off and feel like they've accomplished something, then get 'em back in the mines!
by russellbeattie | 2026-01-30 01:43:02+00:00
Huh! I had no idea about those services. I just checked my S21 Ultra and yep, they were there. It took like 20 seconds to force stop and disable them, though I'm sure they'll be re-enabled during the next update.

Honestly, I'm not sure I care enough to worry about it. If I've never noticed in the past 5 years, then they weren't adding much "bloat".

When I think of that sort of useless software, I imagine all the OEM crap that Windows laptops come with that usually cause instability and hog resources.
by aanet | 2026-01-30 01:43:22+00:00
> In your opinion as an AV safety expert, has Waymo already demonstrated a far higher standard of driving than human drivers in collision avoidance scenarios?

That's a difficult question to answer, and the devil really is in the details, as you may have guessed. What I can say that Waymo is, by far, the most prolific publisher of research on AV safety on public roads. (yes, those are my qualifiers...)

Here's their main stash [1] but notably, three papers talk about comparison of Waymo's rider-only (i.e. no safety driver) performance vis-a-vis human driver, at 7.1 million miles [2], 25 million miles [3], 56 million miles [4]. Waymo has also been a big contributor to various AV safety standards as one would expect (FWIW, I was also a contributor to 3 of the standards... the process is sausage-making at its finest, tbh).

I haven't read thru all their papers, but some notable ones talk about the difficulty of comparing AV vs human drivers [5], and various research on characterising uncertainty / risk of collision, comparing AVs to non-impaired, eyes-on human driver [6]

As one may expect, at least one of the challenges is that human-driven collisions are almost always very _lagging indicators_ of safety (i.e. collision happened: lost property, lost limbs, lost lives, etc.)

So, net-net, Waymo still has a VERY LONG WAY to go (obviously) to demonstrate better than human driving behavior, but they are showing that their AVs are better-than-humans on certain high-risk (potential) collisions.

As somebody remarked, the last 1% takes 90% of time/effort. That's where we are...

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[1] https://waymo.com/safety/research

[2] https://waymo.com/research/comparison-of-waymo-rider-only-cr...

[3] https://waymo.com/research/do-autonomous-vehicles-outperform...

[4] https://waymo.com/research/comparison-of-waymo-rider-only-cr...

[5] https://waymo.com/research/comparative-safety-performance-of...

[6] https://waymo.com/blog/2022/09/benchmarking-av-safety/

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