skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats! It was super interesting to read about the western express, when I did this a few years ago I did the astoria route: https://blaise.bike/

Did you look into different tires? 8 flats seems like a lot. I got exactly one running schwalbe marathon plus tires.

Overall what was your favorite part of the trip?
> The doctor's practice or hospital gets the extra $1656, from the insurer.

No, they don't.

Insurance pays out their negotiated rate of like $100 for that 15 minute appointment. (Which likely has some pre- and post-appointment work involved. My doc has clearly at least skimmed my chart prior, and I get a written note later. I'm also seen by a nurse initially.)

The rates have to be obscenely high on paper so the insurer gets their big win negotiating.

The rest just... evaporates. https://imgur.com/a/X5oLXgr
I am much less negative on Tim Cook and I’ll tell you why:

Steve Jobs was a great vision leader but something of a bad manager in other ways. Being an asshole doesn’t magically make his track record perfect, especially if we include his first stint at Apple.

He was a great leader of a growth company. He motivated and sourced talent very well in his own strange way.

Tim Cook is extremely good at the logistics of a large and mature company, and Apple doesn’t need a Steve Jobs because it doesn’t need to grow.

Apple doesn’t need to do any of the shit that you’ve criticized them for doing badly. It doesn’t need the Vision Pro or an AI product at all. It doesn’t even need to innovate anymore, ever.

Apple is now entrenched in a duopoly. It literally can’t fail. They are basically like AT&T now.

They’ll make more money reselling cloud storage and bundling a glorified cable subscription with it. They probably make more money on their stupid credit card than OpenAI will ever make.

Hell, their services division makes more revenue than Macs and iPads combined IIRC.

Perhaps Tim Cook’s only failure is not canceling the Vision Pro product and not delaying Apple Intelligence. But the consequences of those actions are minimal if any. They probably sold the iPhone 16 Pro to millions of morons who don’t even care about the AI rug pull.

With a company so large, Tim Cook’s most important job is keeping the machine running, staying on the good side of all the countries involved politically, things of that nature. And in that sense he’s done a great job.
I did the same, the opposite direction. If you are interested, there is a whole community of people that do this called Crazy Guy on a Bike.

My Trip:
https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=1&doc_id=10372&v=2E
Oh, that's right, sorry! I'm new to this, so I'll have to move to another site then. Thanks for letting me know. Do you think that by changing the title it's already correct ?
> This guy seems good, but he faces a worse landscape for finding new employment than your fictional Joe Everyman.

Maybe this is true, I don't actually know. But I'm quite skeptical that someone who worked at Google for a long time, and has work with their name on it they can point to, who can work remotely, will have a harder time finding gainful employment than a physical laborer.

I'm not trying to pile on the "screw this guy for whining" train, but I think it is important to recognize the privilege of working in tech.
On the "very-online right," there's a lot of "go woke, go broke," but there is generally not a lot of precision when it comes to actually measuring whether this is true. Certainly this has been true in some cases, but often overtly "woke" things are quite successful and popular.

The Bud Light controversy was interesting since the market for Bud Light seemed to be fairly cornered by the very people who were likely to dislike modern progressive and "woke" signaling. (ie, lower class and lower-to-middle class working class)

To the extent that the analysis from the article is correct, I wonder whether Target's market significantly skewed liberal and progressive, and potentially they have offended their constituency.

As I noted above, I am a bit skeptical that the causation is so solid as people make out. In the past few years on the right, the analysis has often been very sloppy an ideological, even if some companies have seen legitimate pushback for political signaling.
As they rot, people would replace them, so overall captured carbon will be maintained as long as our civilization alive.

My only concern is that building those houses might actually emit more carbon than they are supposed to keep. But assuming that we moved from Oil era to Nuclear and/or Renewables, that should not happen.
Researcher proposes model replacing dark energy/matter to explain universe
ISTM software engineers have been living in a privileged and elite world. They are then utterly shocked to be treated like employees are treated elsewhere.

Pretty much anywhere if you are let go, your email access and physical access are cut off immediately. Start-ups do this all the time as funding gets tight or there is a need to pivot.

I get that this sucks (and have been on the both the dishing out side of this and the receiving end of it multiple times). It is a fact of life. It would be more mature to move on rather than blog about how you feel wronged by your former employer. The next employer may see this post and reason that it is unsafe to hire this person because they feel a need to damage the company's reputation on the way out (for Google, there isn't much risk here, but for smaller companies, threats to the reputation matter).
> "Dubious” charges against Lula? — He was convicted of accepting a seaside apartment as a bribe for helping the OAS construction company get lucrative deals with state oil firm Petrobras

is it also called a bribe when someone pay for it? I think it is called lawfare

> Also Bolsonaro was termed “far right,” but Lula not called “far left?”

Is lula exalting Stalin and trying to install a proletariat dictatorship?
Related paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/adbed1
> The camera shows night in the Wild West.

> A masked man creeps through the shadows of a sleeping town.

> He looks both ways, then

... walks into a casino, realizes there's a flaw in how they shuffle and deal cards, and then makes a shit ton of money exploiting this weakness.

After losing a shit ton of money because they didn't plan for someone to play the game in an unexpected way, the owners of the casino demanded the money back.

"Did you steal our money?", they ask?

"ABSOLUTELY NOT," he replies, "I didn't get any non-public information, I didn't manipulate the deck, and you have yet to point to a single hand that was not played entirely within the stated rules of the game. You're just mad because I noticed that you fucked up and bet accordingly."
It's almost like we need some sort of "process" to determine these things. With all "due" care we can reduce the chance of innocent people being hurt. We could call it "The process we perform with due care to not hurt innocent people." I feel like someone should have invented something like this by now.
Yes, we call that state "heat death". Note that the second law is actually that entropy never decreases; it's allowed to stay constant for certain interactions (for instance I'm pretty sure an elastic collision preserves entropy).
AI won't replace software engineers
His post isn't for you.

It was written on his personal blog, announcing to the community of people who look up to him (and yes, there's a community) why he won't be in the places they expect.

Adam was a UX Engineer who saw a job that needed doing, but didn't exist, so he willed it into existence. He found a way to use his talents to literally make the world a better place. (I don't care if you think there are more important jobs - the truth is that the internet mediates most of our societal interactions, and he was making it better for everyone.)

He was doing a kickass job at it too. He should be hurt and angry to have that rug unceremoniously pulled out from under him.

He doesn't need to pay lip service to starving kids in $REMOTE_AND_DESTITUTE_PLACE or self-flagellatingly privilege check. His blog isn't here for your entertainment, and he doesn't need your approval.

There aren't many companies that have such a symbiotic relationship with the web platform to be willing to fund people to make the web a better place. For a while, Google was the foremost place that did.

Adam is immensely talented and a wonderful person on top of it. Hopefully a great opportunity will snatch him up quickly. But there aren't many places to do the work he was doing. He deserves to be mad to see the job he worked so hard to build swept away by some antisocial business school bullshit. And as the people who will miss out when he's not there to make the web a better place, we do too.
I generally don’t really care about what programming language I’m using

To me algorithms and solving problems in the abstract sense are the actual interesting part of the job

If discussing language/framework choices is the most interesting part of the job, it means I have a boring job/project/domain
Author was in the middle of prepping for the NYC marathon, so they were in decent shape physically.

My fat ass would have given up before I even reached the Bay Bridge.

That reminds me: the author did not mention how they crossed the Bay Bridge. There is no cycling path from SF to EB AFAICT.
People here get u on their high horse about investment minimums and the like. Sure, they get real excited about some startup and they may turn out to even be right. I also know people who do angel and seed investing who are beating the bushes for capital or are just holding tight. Startup investing isn’t some magic money tree reserved for the well off. Heck, I’m pretty selective about even purchases of even individual public companies.
Wal-Mart is down too, but Target is down more. All of this information is easily accessible of course: https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae3...
I don't think you can reduce tearing with fine muscular control. The physics of cutting are weird; cutting at an angle is different, the chipbreaker plays a huge role, vibration ("chatter") has to be kept under control, and the best way to avoid tearing is usually scraping - where the cutting edge has a completely different geometry from a plane iron.

The trend in western planes has been to use speed, the weight and rigidity of iron to cut through wood before it has time to flex, whereas you see those Japanese planes cutting slowly - but again, traditional Japanese wood is softer and less knotty or wavy than the oak or walnut or exotics that are a staple of traditional western woodworking. Look at the Australian woodworking scene for ex., their native wood species are challenging.
Yeah, it has been a reckoning. I’ve never seen liberal boomers and gen x-ers get so organized. I’ve only known the opposite in my lifetime. It’s been great to see and I’m here for it. Keep this up and you’ll turn the hosts of The View into leaders of an armed militia.
Show HN: LiftmyCV – AI Job Search Agent and Auto-Apply Tool
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In early 2024, my small marketing team started losing clients due to the rise of AI tools. So I began searching for a job myself and was reminded how frustrating and inefficient the process is – surfing dozens of job platforms, filling out endless forms, and receiving very few responses.

I started using ChatGPT to speed up the process and realized it could be automated. That’s how LiftmyCV was born.

I built a simple prototype, launched it to a small group of early users, and quickly got confirmation that the idea resonated – people found it helpful and were actually willing to pay. During early testing, I personally received several interview invites in just one week using the product.

Yeah, I know some makers already tried (or are still trying) to build something similar – and yes, there are tons of competitors. But I genuinely think I can do it better. Here's how:

- Quality over quantity: I saw one guy post about applying to 1,000 jobs in a week… but what actually matters is the quality of each application. So I’m focusing on polishing GPT autofill responses and server logic to make each one more contextual and human. A big upgrade to the AI agent is dropping this week – hope you’ll like it :)

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- 942 signups
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Tech stack:
- Webapp: Java + Spring Boot + TypeScript + React JS + Effector + OpenAI API
- Chrome Extension/AI Agent: JavaScript
- Marketing website/landing pages: Wordpress/PHP

Core features available in the MVP:
- Supports 7 job search websites & ATS platforms
- Job search on autopilot
- Non-Stop AI Auto-Apply (automatically switches between job boards)
- GPT-4o-powered auto-fill for job applications
- Auto-apply history and stats
- Premium support & open to feature requests
- Try before you buy - a free plan with 3 CV submissions

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1. Visit www.liftmycv.com and create your free account
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3. Complete your profile and upload your CV (ensure your profile is as detailed as possible for better results)
4. Activate the AI Auto-Apply feature and let LiftmyCV handle job applications for you

Challenges I faced:
- Fine-tuning the AI auto-fill logic has been tricky (and it’s still a work in progress).
- GPT-generated responses required constant tweaks to avoid awkward or irrelevant form fills.
- Humanizing the AI output is essential to bypass ATS systems and make applications feel real.
Socketcluster: Highly scalable pub/sub and RPC SDK
This post counts as another one of the 1.56 billion.

It wasn't because Costco embraced DEI as much as Target actively dropping it as quickly as possible after Inauguration Day. They didn't even wait for a challenge. To me that means they were happy to drop it as quickly as they could. Which means it was all for show in the first place.

I've also seen a few half-assed attempts to go viral and bring customers back, which only makes me want to spend more elsewhere.
Once drugs lose patent protection, it's difficult for them to gain approval for new indications, because drug approval procedures are extremely expensive and there's no patent holder left for whom it would make economic sense to spend all that money.

So in cases like valproate for migraine, those drugs usually stay off-label long term. That makes them unattractive for doctors to prescribe, since they assume more liability if something goes wrong, and insurance companies are less likely to cover the drugs.

The way information about off-label uses gets communicated is basically the same way as elsewhere in science: through scientific papers, conferences, textbooks, and the like. A doctor who discovers that their migraine patient does well on valproate might publish this as a case report. If there are many such reports, someone might do a randomized trial. Once there are many randomized trials, meta-analyses can be performed, and eventually, the information will end up in textbooks and medical school curricula.

It takes a certain amount of agency for a doctor to stay up to date on the latest research; while medical boards tend to have certification requirements for CME (continuing medical education), these are usually quite lax, and a truly lazy doctor can probably just live their years without really learning anything new.

At the same time, reading all new research that comes out is basically impossible, and even just trying to do this would risk always following the latest fads that later evidence might show to, in fact, be harmful. Every doctor needs to find their own middle ground here, and you as a patient must find a doctor that suits your own preferences.
Whenever I face this, in my own analysis or others, I apply the "let's find out" tactic. Instead of doing nothing I'll propose that we do X which I surmise as an option that a) is non-destructive and reversible, b) has a chance of working out. [You can add your own criteria, e.g. fast/easy, simple, etc] At the very least we'll learn something. When someone else is stalling, I'll phrase it something like "Unless someone has specific reasons against investigating X, I propose we prototype it and see where it goes." If still unsure, prototype Y. After that you usually realize there's not much point prototyping yet another an simply choose one and see how far it can go.
Can a powerful model become a fantastic autocomplete for dolphins ? Sure. Someday soon that's very likely to happen. But that alone would tell us almost nothing of what dolphin dialogue means.

To understand their language we need shared experiences, shared emotions, common internal worlds. Observation of dolphin-dolphin interaction would help but to a limited degree.

It would help if the dolphins are also interested in teaching us. Dolphins or we could say to the other '... that is how we pronounce sea-cucumber'. Shared nouns would be the easiest.

The next level, a far harder level, would be to reach the stage where we can say 'the emotion that you are feeling now, that we call "anger"'.

We will no quite have the right word for "anxiety that I feel when my baby's blood flow doesn't sound right in Doppler".

Teaching or learning 'ennui' and 'schadenfreude' would be a whole lot harder.

This begs a question can one fully feel and understand an emotion we do not have a word for ? Perhaps Wittgenstein has an answer.

Postscript: I seem to have triggered quite a few of you and that has me surprised. I thought this would be neither controversial nor unpopular. It's ironic in a way. If we can't understand each other, understanding dolphin "speech" would be a tough hill to climb.
We can talk when there is a proper study that isn't sponsored by a bicycle maintenance company, I'd be curious to see how they found the "participants"

> ARN reports a relationship with Cycle Inspect Pty Ltd. that includes: equity or stocks. ARN has patent ##PCT/AU2022/051284 pending to Cycle Inspect Services Pty Ltd

> By that logic we should get rid of a lot of existing regulation.

No, we should go door to door and check what people have in their pantry, probably even scan their credit card purchases, enforce daily calories quotas, &c.
I simply go to Openverse and type "abstract", until I find what I want: https://openverse.org/search?q=abstract
I clicked on the link and saw the article was by Dr. Emily Conover, a name that I recognized as an excellent science writer. Then I looked at the top of the article... _Science News_, which I consider an excellent source for keeping up with science. Strongly recommend both.
Yes and practically it's a slippery slope .. marginalizing the weak, via government powers.

May not be needed to say: in an authoritarian society, compliance paradoxically breeds more authoritarianism.

(From AI, and I agree with) The idea of the impact of compliance in authoritarian societies is .., Active Compliance > Passive Compliance > and finally, Pre-Compliance.

- Bonus: discussion of the assertion that those in upperclass authoritarian societies DO comply with, and aren't affected by authoritarian policies ( Note this is for INDIVIDUALS not corporations, I speculate it works the same however ) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paradox-voluntary-compliance-...

So, watch as Us here on Hacker News start to encourage Active compliance, move to Passive, and then encourage Pre-Compliance!

Then, BINGO! "You're an authoritarian enabler!"
> Less controversially, when you write C, you write for a virtual machine described by the C spec, not your actual hardware.

Isn't this true for most higher level languages as well? C++ for instance builds on top of C and many languages call into and out of C based libraries. Go might be slightly different as it is interacting with slightly less C code (especially if you avoid CGO).
Do you maybe think using 'rape' in such a casual way takes away anything from actual rape victims?
All-female crew, including singer Katy Perry, blast off on Blue Origin rocket
There are plenty of things out there that don’t use OpenAPI. In fact most things aren’t.

Even if the universe was all OpenAPI, you’d still need a lower level protocol to define exactly how the LLM reaches out of the box and makes the OpenAPI call in the first place. That is what MCP does. It’s the protocol for calling tools.

It’s not perfect but it’s a start.
How can you have elements of different types? I don't understand how you would know which type a given node was in?
As far as classism goes, this person is closer to a tradesman than they are to a billionaire or the executive class. People really have no sense of scale here and they just end up promoting infighting. It’s not just plumbers/electricians/Amazon warehouse workers and everyone else.
This is probably naive and looking forward to a correction; isn't sending your info to Claude's API (or really any "AI API") is a violation of your safeguarded privacy data?
I'd say ssh is here to stay far more than NFS.
This is surprisingly popular among programmers
Target has 30 million customers per WEEK so this is truly mathematically significant and believable.
Projected Lifetime Cancer Risks From Current Computed Tomography Imaging
Many of those languages do not have pointers - which are fundamental to how modern instruction sets work.
Have there been court cases where developers have been held liable for faults in FOSS code despite the language of the licenses?
bro just quoted a chatbot
The problem here is that those crypto contracts aren't designed to be security. They are intended to be contracts.

It's like opening a bank account, and the contract says "You can only access your own money in the vault. Everything you can access is yours to use as you see fit." On your first visit the manager brings you into a vault with hundreds of cash-laden tables. He shows you to an empty table, and says "Here's your table. Enjoy!".

Are you allowed to take money from the other tables? Clearly the contract says you can, but surely that can't be what they intended? Is it theft to "break their security" by walking over to another table, or is it just a hidden perk of the contract you signed?
Don't forget Salvini's party, that stole at least 49M between 2008 and 2010. Nothing bad happened: they just have to return them, 600k per year, for 70 years. It's calculated that the final real value of the returned money will be less than 20M. Absolute scandal.
this is a bad comment for this subject. NFLX options are on a publicly traded stock. the terms are also different than a startup stock option. you've really just introduced confusion into this subject, judging from all the child comments.

in my experience, most startups do offer you a sliding scale of cash vs equity, just not 90% as NFLX does. they may not advertise it or be upfront about it, but i've never personally experienced a startup that wouldn't trade one for the other.
C++ better represents the machine?
I think you may have missed the point of the original comment - presumably those archaic instruments and interfaces would show a much higher value of experience over cognitive ability. The fact that this isn’t the case for computer tasks overall suggests that interfaces on average are pretty good (or there is some other factor they failed to include - maybe they are all similarly bad which means everyone comes in with more than zero experience, etc.). Full disclosure I didn’t read the article.
for me it just burns a bunch of CPU and is difficult to scroll
You can pass cookies or Chrome user data into ArchiveBox, but you do risk account suspensions if your account gets flagged for scraping.
High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5M unknown space objects