MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bix6 | 2025-09-25 02:30:28+00:00
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/announcing-yc-deals

And

There really is no counter-theory. “The knock on YC,” Andy Weissman, a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, told me, “is that on Demo Day their users are just YC companies, which entirely explains why they’re all growing so fast. But how great to have more than a thousand companies willing to use your product!”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...
by rayiner | 2025-09-25 02:30:39+00:00
> I sure as fuck believe that every human being can spend their hard-earned money however they see fit.

Why? Do these people not live in society next to you? Don’t you subsidize their healthcare, the education of their kids, etc?

> But, my guess is, you don't really want to regulate all of those; just the ones you disagree with.

The only one of those I wouldn’t regulate is churches, and that’s because study after study shows that people who participate in organized religion are happier and healthier, and communities with healthy churches do better in social metrics than ones that don’t. E.g. Mormons live 5-10 years longer than white Americans generally: https://www.deseret.com/2010/4/13/20375744/ucla-study-proves.... (I suspect New England Congregationalists have similarly superlative outcomes, but I don’t have the data.) Imagine how much lower our healthcare costs would be if you could take the social magic Mormons do and apply it to the whole country.

Maybe we don’t have to ban coffee. But is the alternative really for society to suffer the negative externalities of every individual choice with no power to regulate those choices?
by nerdsniper | 2025-09-25 02:30:59+00:00
I interpreted it as they were stuck on the tarmac for a long time. People were getting dehydrated and asked for water. The FA’s refused to serve drinks on the tarmac. Passengers said “fuck it this is a health issue I’ll just get it from the galley myself”. The FA’s threatened that anyone who did that would be arrested.

Passengers only options were to either deal with the dehydration or declare an actual emergency and get official medical transport off of the plane to an ER and deal with whatever bills/consequences that might generate.
by toxicdevil | 2025-09-25 02:31:04+00:00
Students have access to OPT (1y) and STEM OPT (2y) on the same visa to work after their degree. If they go for a higher degree then they can get OPT again. Grad students from US universities also get a separate quota in the H1B cap.

All of this should to a little extent alleviate some of the concerns.

The weighted system should still work since the candidate pool (from within the US) is likely mostly students on OPT. They should have comparable salaries, unless they are hired by rotten companies.
by gingerbrown | 2025-09-25 02:31:07+00:00
Tech-Talk Translator is a cool/fun communication training program designed to help tech professionals become better in meetings and presentations. I know a few people who have taken it, and they have said "Game Changer" and "they started using the tools and techniques immediately." "the coaching sessions are worth every penny." Also right now they offering entry into a live coaching cohort where you enroll in the video program and get 3 live coaching sessions. They are currently offering 20% off using the code: "TECH-TALK". PEOPLE SHOULD CHECK IT OUT.
by stonecharioteer | 2025-09-25 02:31:32+00:00
Oooh isn't this by Zed A Shaw? The dude single handedly pissed off the Ruby community with this.

He also wrote the Learn Python the Hard Way book and advocated against Python 3 for years. I learnt Python from that book and it was crazy how much vehement hate he had for Python 3.

He ultimately caved and wrote Learn Python 3 the Hard Way.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-25 02:32:30+00:00
In any major city - and I’ve been to most of the top 50 markets - at least the three major airlines fly. If you’re not at that airports hub, you will probably have a layover.

I use to live in Atlanta and I still fly in, out and through there often. That is the ultimate Delta hub. But you can still get to almost any other major city via the other airlines with layovers.

In fact, it would probably be cheaper. For instance it is cheaper for us to fly from MCO - ATL - SJO (Costa Rica) than it is for our friends to fly the same dates from ATL - SJO.

Charlotte for instance is an American hub, but you can still fly Delta from there to a hub and anywhere else you want.

Right now, while Orlando is not really a hub for any airline, Southwest has the most destinations. We still choose to fly Delta and most of the time with a layover in ATL.

Before you mention some small airport with only a few flights, yes I know, my parents live in south GA and the only comercial flights are three flights a day between there and Atlanta on Delta.
by eru | 2025-09-25 02:32:49+00:00
Google's original founders still hold the majority of votes.

> Eventually you are an organization whose purpose is to return cash to shareholders in the near term.

Amazon's history shows that public shareholders can be very patient with cash being returned to them, or the company ever showing a profit at all. Tesla used to be in the same boat.

Shareholders are very forward looking. They just don't necessarily trust 'visionary managers' not be full of bullshit. Probably rightly so.
by Our_Benefactors | 2025-09-25 02:34:11+00:00
The ol “I’m rubber you’re glue” argument.

By the way, this is total bullshit pushed by people who are upset that the loss of H1B labor will mean that they have to pay labor more.

If the offshoring was a comparable product and cheaper, they would have already done it. But guess what - everyone already knows outsourcing leads to a lower quality product!
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-25 02:36:06+00:00
>> You could learn from consent based decision making, a hallmark of sociocratic worker coops that is underrated and can be applied elsewhere.

>> Hierarchy and coercion isn't necessary for avoiding decision paralysis in organizations.

> I don’t think that is a practical framework for situations where people aren’t already very closely aligned.

Putting aside the concept of Sociocracy for the purpose of discussing engineering team leadership philosophies, one which I have observed to be very effective when working with experts is Servant Leadership[0]. From the Wiki page:

A servant leader shares power, puts the needs of the employees first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible. Instead of the people working to serve the leader, the leader exists to serve the people.

While Servant Leadership[0] might initially raise concerns resembling the problems you rightly identify with a sociocratic approach, it has the benefits of peer collaboration combined with accountability of the decisions made by leadership.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership
by more_corn | 2025-09-25 02:36:20+00:00
What! No. The company accused of operating in bad faith towards its customers operated in bad faith towards investigators who were uncovering evidence of that bad faith?

That would indicate that the bad faith wasn’t an accidental act by a few rogue employees, but rather a conscious company policy directed from the highest levels.

Too bad no penalties of consequence will stick because the whole American system of justice is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-25 02:36:43+00:00
Good point, and good question.

I like Cory Doctorow's take on this [0], that this is basically defrauding the shareholders. It used to be illegal, it probably should be illegal again.

It's also unsustainable, in that you can only do this for so long before you've bought up all the open shares and there's so few remaining that your company is no longer effectively tradeable.

I don't know where this practice leads, but I don't think it's a place we want to go to. I suspect it'll be further concentration of capital into fewer hands. To the extreme, we end up with all the large companies doing this becoming effectively private, owned by a small group of folks rich enough to keep their holdings while everyone else sells out during the buybacks. That's not good.

[0] https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/06/computer-says-huh/
by backflippinbozo | 2025-09-25 02:37:01+00:00
We built agents to test github repo quickstarts associated with arXiv papers a couple months before this paper was published, wrote about it publicly here: https://remyxai.substack.com/p/self-healing-repos

We've been pushing it farther to implement draft PRs in your target repo, published a month before this preprint: https://remyxai.substack.com/p/paperswithprs

To limit the attack surface we added PR#1929 to AG2 so we could pass API keys to the DockerCommandLineCodeExecutor but also use egress whitelisting to block the ability of an agent to reach a compromised server: https://github.com/ag2ai/ag2/pull/1929

Since then, we've been scaling this with k8s ray workers so we can run this in the cloud to build for the hundreds of papers published daily.

By running in Docker, constraining the network interface, deploying on the cloud, and ultimately keeping humans-in-the-loop through PR review, it's hard to see where the prompt-injection attack comes into play from testing the code.

Would love to get feedback from an expert on this, can you imagine an attack scenario, Simon?

I'll need to work out a check for the case where someone creates a paper with code instructing my agent to publish keys to a public HF repo for others to exfiltrate.
by andrewflnr | 2025-09-25 02:38:09+00:00
What part of this being a bad execution of the idea is confusing or contradictory? What "we want" is for the governance of our country, including but not limited to H1B reform, to not be a shambolic disaster.

I was prepared to accept this as one of the handful of semi-useful things Trump did, and I might still personally benefit, but the details quickly disabused me of the idea that it was actually good.
by henridwyer | 2025-09-25 02:38:21+00:00
Yes, I see something similar for the query "Midjourney": 4 sponsored results from Deevid, Artlist.io, Lovart, Pollo AI (see the screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/ESM3xtJ)

Finally Midjourney. Unlike in the article I have never visited Midjourney.
by eru | 2025-09-25 02:38:37+00:00
You say that like it's a bad thing.

Can you imagine a more effective way to incentivise more people to start even more disrupting platforms? Can you image a more effective way to get investors to give money to these upstarts?

It's much easier to get your rabble-rousing startup to threaten disruption (and then be bought up as a precaution), than if you had to actually battle it out in the marketplace to the bitter end.
by iamnothere | 2025-09-25 02:38:44+00:00
Given that onion sites require six hops and that the Tor team keeps watch for suspicious node behavior, and that there is no “exit node” where you can more closely observe outgoing traffic, onion connections are actually very tough to correlate. It requires a large number of compromised nodes plus cooperation with ISPs and backbone providers, as seen in the arrest of the onion site operator a few years ago. There were some good writeups at the time. You basically need to use DDoS techniques combined with targeted disconnections to narrow down the list of potential targets, even while owning many nodes. And onions have seen some DDoS hardening since this time.

Clearnet traffic via exit node is a bit different. With only three hops it might be possible to correlate targeted traffic by owning a huge number of nodes, but even then, unless you also control the server being connected (or it barely receives any traffic) then it may not give you anything actionable. (Using Tor is not a crime.) Unless you can see what is being done on the server by the unmasked user, or you can establish a pattern of behavior, or you see something like a large data transfer whose size matches a known event of interest, then all you know is someone accessed the server over Tor. And even then, owning both the entry and exit isn’t sufficient if the user is masking their traffic with decoy and/or relay traffic.
by zeroq | 2025-09-25 02:39:53+00:00
On one hand I'm super enthusiastic about your project.

This could help battle procrastination, organize your time in a long run, bill your clients more efficiently, etc. 20 years younger, hyper productive me would kill for such product.

But then I recall when I accidently suggested TimeRescue to my boss at one time, and suddenly he was skimming though everyones daily logs to see if they're spending 100% of their times in business facing apps.

When I first heard about "covid mouse mover devices" that faked activity for remote workers I thought it was a joke. Seriously.

But I'm afraid this is the dystopian future. Employers constantly looking at your screen and getting spreadsheets with your daily effort.

Overall, very disturbing product.
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-09-25 02:40:11+00:00
If anyone is curious, as I was, about the large red shapes on the map, those are the beams of the object tracking/measurement sites. They correlate with the maps at [0]. I was actually pretty blown away when I started reading that page. Apparently those stations can measure <10cm-sized debrisin orbit. What?! Amazing.

[0] https://leolabs.space/radars/
by eru | 2025-09-25 02:40:21+00:00
Just one facet of what we call 'promotion oriented programming' (or promotion oriented design).

Google's promotion guidelines used to include that if you want to get a promotion on a technical track, you have to demonstrate a mastery of complexity. Cue the unnecessary complexity in some projects meant to get the author promoted.

(They might still include that requirement. I don't know. I haven't worked at Google in nearly a decade.)
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-25 02:41:07+00:00
I think it’s more an enormous band-aid because cell networks were too afraid of the infrastructure effects of devices traveling at 500mph, perhaps especially with poor signal quality.

If it was a safety issue, wireless devices would be outright banned.

Dangerous chemicals, weapons, and such are not allowed. They can’t just be “off” in a box because accidents do happen.

Think nobody forgets to turn airplane mode on?

At this point, I’m really not sure why we keep up the ruse.

We live in a bizarro world where a small bottle of water is a bigger security threat than an RF transmitter.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-25 02:41:18+00:00
> What part of this being a bad execution of the idea is confusing or contradictory?

And even then, "bad idea" is what you get after the extreme charity of assuming the Trump administration is fundamentally lawful.

It's even worse if you believe they're bunch of crooks that will use the "special exception" clause to extort/bribe companies into corrupt favors. For example, granting access to snoop without a court-order, biasing their moderation policies, silencing voices or messages the administration finds inconvenient, etc.
by egonschiele | 2025-09-25 02:41:43+00:00
Parents want to sit next to their kids Let's assume this for sake of argument that people don't want to sit next to other people's kids. So here's a situation no one wants. But parents will be the ones who have to pay. New legislation is saying that parents are the one who should pay for this. You make a fair point that making everyone pay to select the exact seat they want, would just be treating everyone the same way.

What I'm saying is, if you do it this way, you're now leaving the decision up to the parents. And some parents will choose not to pay. When that happens – because it will happen – I don't want to hear people complaining about having to sit next to other people's kids. Everyone was treated equally, a choice was given, a choice was made.

The other option is, we say as a society that here is a situation nobody wants, we all see that, so we're all going to collectively agree to set things up in the parents' favor a little bit, thus doing something nice, creating an outcome that is better for everyone, but at the cost that some parent seating gets subsidised by others on the plane.

Just laying out the options. Classic individualist thinking will say, I don't want the government to decide for me that I should subsidize. And thus some people will end up sitting next to somebody's crying 2 year old.
by 2bluesc | 2025-09-25 02:42:08+00:00
You can use the linker to preload `nss_wrapper`[0] and overwrite anything using `nss`.

Here's an example:

> cat hosts 198.51.100.33 test.tld 2001:db8::33 test.tld 198.51.100.12 test4.tld 2001:db8::12 test6.tld > LD_PRELOAD=/nix/store/sw2r0gpi9c9rsvqgvi4906yxh948ydsv-nss_wrapper-1.1.16/lib/libnss_wrapper.so NSS_WRAPPER_HOSTS=hosts getent ahosts test.tld 198.51.100.33 DGRAM test.tld 198.51.100.33 STREAM test.tld 2001:db8::33 DGRAM 2001:db8::33 STREAM > LD_PRELOAD=/nix/store/sw2r0gpi9c9rsvqgvi4906yxh948ydsv-nss_wrapper-1.1.16/lib/libnss_wrapper.so NSS_WRAPPER_HOSTS=hosts getent ahosts test4.tld 198.51.100.12 DGRAM test4.tld 198.51.100.12 STREAM test4.tld > LD_PRELOAD=/nix/store/sw2r0gpi9c9rsvqgvi4906yxh948ydsv-nss_wrapper-1.1.16/lib/libnss_wrapper.so NSS_WRAPPER_HOSTS=hosts getent ahosts test6.tld 2001:db8::12 DGRAM test6.tld 2001:db8::12 STREAM test6.tld > LD_PRELOAD=/nix/store/sw2r0gpi9c9rsvqgvi4906yxh948ydsv-nss_wrapper-1.1.16/lib/libnss_wrapper.so NSS_WRAPPER_HOSTS=hosts curl -v test.tld * Host test.tld:80 was resolved. * IPv6: 2001:db8::33 * IPv4: 198.51.100.33 * Trying [2001:db8::33]:80... * Trying 198.51.100.33:80...

[0] https://cwrap.org/nss_wrapper.html
by YZF | 2025-09-25 02:43:06+00:00
What are the odds that the older know-it-all engineer actually knows better than you? I would say they're pretty good.

That's not to say that consensus always works. But it does mean the group needs to understand the objections and make decisions the team can live with. The most toxic of engineering situations is the manager making decisions without understanding consequences and without taking responsibility for the outcomes.

Sometimes there is time pressure or difficult people but the base assumption should be that people actually want to make the right decision, being difficult generally makes your life harder. Who would be responsible for executing on the decision and who would be responsible for the outcome? What are the consequences of strong arming the team into solutions they don't agree with?
by misswaterfairy | 2025-09-25 02:44:01+00:00
This. Kagi is absolutely awesome.

I pay for Kagi so that I'm not being peddled ads or junk when I'm trying to be productive, as my ADHD-riddled brain can get easily distracted. It gets quite upsetting when I've wasted non-trivial amounts of time on those distractions that I subconsciously fall into.

I absolutely cannot use Google because of their seemingly endless attempts to distract me from what I'm searching for.

The final nail in the coffin was their actions to get rid of uBlock and other effective ad-blockers. It's a serious anti-pattern, and (I strongly argue) is effectively discrimination for those who struggle with ADHD.

I hope that Kagi can one day effectively filter out GenAI slop websites that look like legitimate content, but I can understand the significant technical challenges in such a feature.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-25 02:44:15+00:00
I believe what you describe is what I have learned to be known as Servant Leadership[0]. I could be totally wrong in my interpretation of your experience and admittingly may be projecting a leadership approach I quite fancy.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

EDIT:

Removed unnecessary qualification in the last sentence.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership
by iamnothere | 2025-09-25 02:44:27+00:00
Ah, I misunderstood. In any case, onion traffic is not flagged as such, so nobody but the last hop would even know that onion traffic is being passed. Allowing the last node to kill the whole circuit seems like it would cause routing problems and/or contribute towards deanonymization, as would flagging onion traffic at every step of the journey.
by eru | 2025-09-25 02:45:28+00:00
> Some theorists point out the obvious hack: take away the hot potato. Slow the game down. Make shares harder to flip, make earnings less frequent. If you could only trade stock once a year, you'd actually care what the company looks like in a year. If they only reported results annually, you'd be forced to think in years, not quarters.

Google's original founders still hold the majority of voting rights.

Making trading less efficient wouldn't change anything here.

> It's a tradeoff: you can have maximum liquidity and hyper-efficient capital markets, but then you get short-term brain damage. Or you can slow the game down, but then you're basically asking people to trust managers more and accept worse capital efficiency.

No, your proposal wouldn't work at all.

A big problem is actually that most managers in most companies mostly work for themselves. It's called a 'principal/agent problem'.

Exactly as you say 'execs get more room to bullshit.'

Btw, there's private equity funds with very long capital lock-ups. Their effects on companies typically aren't loved by the people who voice similar concerns to yours.
by retrac | 2025-09-25 02:46:17+00:00
I have often thought about the timing of HIV's emergence.

Retroviruses were discovered only a few years before the first AIDS cases. The molecular amplification technologies that form the basis of HIV testing were only developed in the 1970s. The first antivirals that worked against HIV had been developed to treat other retroviruses, just a few years before, too.

If it had emerged in the early 20th century, there would have been no tests for it and no treatments for it. It would have been impossible to control. (We don't do a very good job of it even with all the tools we have now.)
by eru | 2025-09-25 02:48:10+00:00
Buybacks and dividends are financially equivalent. They give money from the company to shareholders. The incentives are exactly the same for all parties involved, too.

Their only material difference is in taxes. Yes, I am in favour of putting dividends and buy backs on the same tax footing, just in the name of simplicity. And while you are at it, also put dividends and interest payments on the same tax footing.

At the moment, many jurisdictions advantage interest payments, thus encourage financing companies with debt instead of equity. And then they awkwardly pair it with other rules that try to tell companies (especially financial companies like banks) not to use so much debt, not to be so levered.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-25 02:48:10+00:00
Things have changed.

Google is doing what Apple does and implementing Gatekeeper-like signature checks to ensure only apps by Google-approved developers can run on Android.

Microsoft does something similar with Windows Defender: you need to buy a developer certificate that can be revoked at any time if you want to distribute your app and have users be able to run it.

We're at a point where we need permission from trillion dollar companies to run the apps we want on the hardware we own.
by mcbridematt | 2025-09-25 02:48:30+00:00
I have a similar Windows Arm64 machine (Lenovo "IdeaPad 5 Slim"), RDP into it works OK.

There is one issue I ran into that I haven't on my (self-built) Windows desktops: when Windows Hello (fingerprint lock) is enabled, and neither machine is on a Windows domain, the RDP client will just refuse to authenticate.

I had to use a trick to "cache" the password on the "server" end first, see https://superuser.com/questions/1715525/how-to-login-windows...
by thwarted | 2025-09-25 02:48:40+00:00
I wonder how much this can end up contributing to the Kleenex-ification of a brand or a term. You search for firefox and random other browsers come up. Now browsers in general are associated with the firefox term. Of course, when it comes down to it, there isn't much difference between browsers anyway, the UI is different but they all need to work with the same websites, and people have been using specific application names in place of the type of data/work ("Excel file" being used to refer to a CSV).