skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are good cover letters and then there are cover letters that are a waste of time. From what I can tell, this tool generates mostly the latter. It's basically just reformatting the resume and job description, producing an inferior version of both.

A good cover letter

- reveals some of the personality of the applicant (I once had a software engineer describe themselves as caring and thoughtful -- that was a nice touch to complement their resume which lists technical achievements)

- gives the recruiting team a sense of passions, priorities, and style of cooperation (again, beyond the technical which is on the resume)

- lets the organisation know a little about the reason for switching jobs.

Of course, it says nothing about whether the applicant is any good at the job, but it can give a sense of whether this person is someone the team would enjoy hanging out and working with every day. I haven't verified it empirically, but I believe cover letters have been signalful for me in the past.
Yep, I'm not sure why they aren't advertised. Feel free to email me (see profile) if you are interested in backend engineering or eng. manager roles and I will route you.

Skillset wise for software people we are looking for senior devs, ideally with experience in Python or .NET. Stack is AWS, Postgres, Kafka, Airflow, Databricks.

For management roles we are looking for someone to help build the team, eg. hiring, laying skillset puzzles etc. I'm not sure if they are open to hiring management roles outside Stockholm.
$20 a month isn't that bad for Googles alternative.
I've heard Microsoft are pushing a $40 a week access to the same tool. I imagine it will be token limited though.
Reimagining cities in a few simple questions
claiming the mac pro is their "flagship" SKU is nonsense, the author is thinking of the macbook lol
Every time i read these comments I am glad that Evan (creator of Vue and Vite) decided to be independent of Tech Companies
I think it's funny that casual hobbyists can easily outproduce Microsoft's supposedly world class engineering organization. It's not even a question in anyone's mind either. You guys know you're going to beat them (or already have), everyone here takes it as a given, even the engineers at MSFT probably know it.

Even if they try to stop you guys, they probably won't be able to pull it off unless they can manage it in court
Seriously, I think the answer to this isn't about intensity of feeling (although 100% is never healthy for anything, ever).

It's about channelling the GAS into principles, tightening them up, and agreeing on what matters. Then putting that energy into being flexible about everything else.
How do we see color?
Saving it from extinction for an eternity of torture and slaughter, nice.
Sure, but I am allowed to feel for a bloody shrimp if I want to. Call me a hippy.
It's propaganda either way because it's funded by public money (PR is funded by private money).
I'd love something like that but with some low power screen (e-paper? One of those super low power memory LCDs) and running 2 weeks off charge.

Just so it can be constantly on and display status while not requiring tethering.
Working smarter and for better companies also got me working harder. I simply work harder when I'm working for a company I care about, on a job I care about, when I feel appreciated and have the freedom to contribute in a way that works for me.

If you make me care less about the job and worry more about money, that's not going to help my productivity. If you want passionate and productive workers, you've got to give them something to be passionate about, but you also have to make sure they don't have to worry about money. If they're thinking about how they'll make rent or how they're going to pay for some unavoidable expenses, they're not thinking about how to solve an interesting problem for you.
This is a shallow take, no matter which way you look at it. "Guns don't kill people."
Their website says they're distributed across US, so I would assume it's US remote only. Bit of a pity
Curious if there's any guide on making it less distracting while watching it on TV? The hacks here are only for web browsers.
Somewhere there should be an article "How to spend time in a pleasant conversation with Google Assistant instead of reading dumb asrtehnica articles".
Otherwise, the balance will be disturbed.
Not a Muslim but eating insects isn’t considered haram and some are halal even.
Really depends on how you’re defining context, since to me there’s concepts like memory chains/ladders, which simply fit sequential memories into a visualization — then there are applications contexts, which actually mirror reality of future use.

Great example of this is topic of memory sports [1], which do use techniques that work, but are likely less useful for actual remembering real world complex information.

[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_sport
They already have an enterprise tier for people who want to build commercial stuff on top of Twitter, and they already monetize their datasets and have done for years. How do you expect to sign up students/new developers if they have to pay before they figure out how to use the API?
From the article:

> Some months later a person took the stage at FIDO’s Authenticate conference and annouced “a passkey is a resident key”. Because of the scale and size of the platform, this definition has now stuck. This definition has become so invasive that even FIDO now use it as their definition.

> Part of the reason this definition is hyped is because it works with an upcoming browser feature that allows autocomplete of a username and webauthn credential if the key is resident. You don’t have to type your username.

> This now means that we have webauthn libraries pushing for residentkey as a requirement for all registrations, and many people will follow this advice without seeing the problem.

> The problem is that security keys with their finite storage and lack of credential management will fill up rapidly.
No. You have clearly an infinite battery on your phone, money on your account, guaranteed world-wide service, absence of thieves, monkeys and gravity. And travels. And trains, toilets, ... hammers? Nothing can go wrong with your phone, right?
That's brilliant. Someone would absolutely make bank with that
Who uses these things productively as daily driver in 2023? No judgement, just curious.
If you are in the US, here is a Food and Drug Administration Food Defect Levels Handbook that gives the standard for contamination.

From the handbook:

> Chocolate and Chocolate Liquor

> Insect filth

> (AOAC 965.38)

> Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined

> OR

> Any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments

> Macaroni and Noodle Products

> Insect filth

> (AOAC 969.41)

> Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

Source: https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packagin...
make it about beauty and fashion to attract females... (skincare routines, beauty advice... ) integrate it into an ecom or recom platform

AI aided shopping "experience"
www.M93.org

Project Description: M93 is a personal dashboard that's equal parts habit tracker, progress tracker and life logger. Conceptually, it takes the UI concept of a Github-style contribution graph, adds interactivity to it and makes it the centerpiece of the dashboard.

What do you want to be tested:

1. I want to test if its valuable. Will you use these features? What would you use it for?
1a. What other features would you want from it?
2. What do you think of the UI? Is it intuitive? Easy to use? Which part is confusing?
3. Did the landing page make sense? What didn't make sense?
4. Did the signup tour do an adequate job of explaining how to use the app?

Thanks in advance
If police in every single country is intrinsically corrupted, what are you suggesting instead? If we have no role model anywhere I presume a simple reform is not enough, since it would be futile.
The genocides are, why a country splitting to release a ethnic group, is something to celebrate. Less chance of that to happen. Pakistan/India seperation comes to mind. Its better to seperate halfway peacefully, then stay together and then get the great murdering during some more despotic moments in history. Can still form something like the european union, to not be bullied by the great bullies.

Its of course, orthogonal to multi culturalism as a ideology, but all the melting pots without a constant economic flame, imploded into civil war (libannon, jugoslavia) or turned into brutal centralist empires (russia, etc.).
I think you're strawmanning a little.

I'm in no way advocating for burning coal/oil/gas. I'm advocating for reduction.

If we were looking for an alternative, how is total (incl build/destruction) CO2 impact of wind/solar/etc compared to nuclear energy?
Lack of integrity in general is not news, but it is valuable to know about specific examples. Not least because it undermines Facebook’s PR fluff.
https://github.com/davvid/garden

Project Description: Garden is a git multi-repo powertool. Garden lets you define custom workflows over arbitrary collections of git trees.

If you find yourself running bespoke commands across a smattering of git repositories then Garden can be a big improvement over a big pile o' scripts and repos.

What do you want to be tested: Test the documented feature-set and new-user onboarding experience. Give feedback on its usefulness as a development/testing aid.

Contact Info: Open an issue on the project page
https://analogfeed.com/

Project description: Social media app for film photographers.

What do you want to be tested: Sign up, post photos with metadata about film type and equipment used. Follow other users and comment on posts.

Contact: deneb150@gmail.com
The leaked content is said to relate to the Nintendo Switch and could include information on its inner workings, source code for games, and graphics files.
There are others - not you - who will justify their own actions thusly: the technology existed, its better that the good guys (me - of course) should use it before the bad guys do.

In the space between both equivocations (yours and the other guy's), lies the potential for moral abuse.
Reference: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld...
I would think the big issue here is that they still make a ton of money off of you by selling your data.
Any Software as Service is deeply flawed because it is pretty much guaranteed to extract as much data from the consumer as possible. In this case, it is quite a bit worse, because it's likely close to your entire content or body of work that they will take.
So unless it becomes something that runs locally and has no networking component to it whatsoever, it's not going to be worth spending money on for many people or companies.
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You or your neighbour probably have some cheap chinese device that puts out high frequency noice on the power line.

Either you get rid of that device or you buy something like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+grounded+extention+cab...
What's the Actual Purpose of Thinning Chocolate?
Sure, agreed!
Note taking with SRS may be greater than the sum of the parts.
Out of curiosity: if humans have trouble coming up with anything non-trivial, like regexes, why should something that has been trained on the output of humans do much better?

To me it feels like if 90% of $TASK content out there would be bad and people would struggle with it, then the AI-genrated $TASK output would be similarly flawed, be it regarding a programming language or something else.

As a silly example, consider how much bad legacy PHP code is out there and what the answers to some PHP questions could become because of that.

But it's still possible to get answers to simplistic problems reasonably fast, or at least get workable examples to then test and iterate upon, which can easily save some time.
Remains to be seen if those people haven't been "transformed" too much during their FAANG stay. You can't build a successful startup while expecting to have Google's infrastructure and best-work practices from the very beginning.
This "kid level" argument fooled even Albert Einstein, Roosevelt, and many others. into developing atomic bomb.
"If we don't build it Nazis will"

Using it was achieved by different kid level argument "It will prevent even more death and suffering"
increase prices to lower demand
> no person or company with integrity exists?

… probably not in the most powerful x percent.
I'm doing design for the team at Kadoa [0] which uses AI API to extract unsctuctured data from whatever sources you throw at it, and prepare it for further automated processing. Seems like a valid use case.

https://www.kadoa.com/
alfatoxin is a also a (much bigger) issue for peanut butter

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9489356/#:~:tex...).
They did, but the explosion of very specific businesses is almost entirely down to Google and Facebook changing the cost structure for these businesses by providing global advertising reach for companies that are small but have products that can be purchased anywhere.
Your analogy is 100% on point, I guess?
Without browser extensions, you can use Newsboat to subscribe to channels and then play videos with MPV.
I have found that by adding simple etymologies I can improve my recall of Latin names for plants. The etymology connects an otherwise totally new word to existing word-concepts.
I just use NewPipe on android. Gives me almost everything I want and no ads (only thing it doesn't is YouTube live broadcasts)
How does that work? Naively I'd expect big reservoirs to decrease evaporation rate, as the surface-to-volume ratio is lower due to the cube-square law.
If you just want to solve fundamental build issues (rather than say, uploading artefacts etc), I open a PR, make the silly small edits/experiments using the in-browser file editor, then it runs the CI each time. If I ever get it working, I then squash all the crappy debug I did to get there. Miles from ideal but a slight improvement.
Streaming Wars: How Netflix wants to prevent account sharing – gHacks Tech News
I've tried it. It's truly incredible what it can produce, but it often produces the wrong thing. Furthermore, it cannot do logical inferences, and it cannot do mathematics.

In short, the code it produces has to be reviewed by programmers who know what they're doing. Sometimes that speeds things up to have it produce the code and we review it, but sometimes it slows things down and it's easier to just write it yourself.

I see ChatGPT as an extremely powerful tool that can boost a programmer's productivity, but despite its incredible capability it cannot be trusted in ways that we can trust human programmers.
The C juggernaut illustrated (2012)
This is wrong on so many levels. Just adding regenerative braking and using a larger, more efficient steam turbine pays for the extra embodied CO2 in an EV in about 200 charges (out of 5000 or so an LFP battery lasts). After that the EV is producing under half the emissions even running on pure coal burnt in a subcritical plant delivered over an inefficient third world grid.

As of 7 months ago 13% of annual world electricity generation over the preceding year was wind and solar (and this goes up several percent a year), a little under 10% is nuclear and 15% is hydro. Along with minor renewable resources like landfill gas (distinct from wood biomass which should not be included) fossil fuels are under 60%.

Anyone in Brazil or Norway or one of many othernplaces has about two orders of magnitude less marginal emissions.

The amount of sunlight that hits a car over an average december day in Ireland could move it further than 80% of people drive. It's not yet possible to gather most of it, but in 80% of the world >90% of grid powered charging by covering one of the places the car parks on the regular with PV and buffering a day's power in a battery 10% the size of the car's.
Nonsense? Ukraine applied for NATO membership in 2008. NATO didn't turn them down. It was pretty evident back then that this was going to lead to a conflict.
Do I understand why Ukraine wants to join the EU and NATO? Yes, of course! Money&security!
This war was obviously a huge mistake. He's turned Ukrainians who were sympathetic towards Russia against him because they too don't want war on their doorstep.
In my experience the view of the police is pretty positive here in the UK.
I really don't understand this. Like, Facebook and Google don't have teams sitting down examining each user to assess what ads they like.

They just shove vast amounts of data into towers of ML models and a prediction comes out. They use that prediction to rank ads.

In this scenario, how was your privacy violated?

This isn't a troll, I'm genuinely interested in your answer.
Show HN: Realtime Weather Data for InfluxDB
Hi HN! I made a tiny app to write real-time weather data into an InfluxDB database. Initially, I made it to test out InfluxDB deployments at work but figured it could be useful to other people too.

The app gives you

- temperature and CO2 data from 10 houses around the world

- generated by a combination of real inputs from a weather API + my own simulation

If you have an InfluxDB lying around, please give it a go!
Weird, isn't it. Apparently it's growing significantly (it'll be interesting to see what they say on their earnings calls).
While there's definitely cultural problems in the US that could lead to more bad departments, the US is a highly decentralized country with a lot of control at the local levels. I think this tends to lead to a lot more corruption at local levels (in some places much more than others), and accordingly more bad departments.
After some reflection I came to a conclusion that I rarely (if ever) watched anything of value on YouTube, and so the best method to make YouTube less distracting in my case was adding:

0.0.0.0 youtube.com
0.0.0.0 www.youtube.com
0.0.0.0 youtu.be
0.0.0.0 www.youtu.be
0.0.0.0 youtube-nocookie.com
0.0.0.0 www.youtube-nocookie.com
0.0.0.0 ads.youtube.com

to /etc/hosts
Focus on other things while everyone else is jumping on the AI train.
Ah, wheel out the old misapplied thought experiment to limit the bazillion-variables-worth of the complexity of human experience down to a couple of integers and contrive an analysis to present as if it were useful.
2023 is "The Year of the Voice" for Home Assistant, so you'll at least be able to directly add prompts and sentences that it'll understand and respond to, instead of relying on Google's/Amazon's/Apple's dumb "AI".

Hopefully the OSS speech to text will be good, since then it'll work as good as you program it to. Not relying on "the cloud" for voice assistance would be awesome.
One of the selling problems is that it can be hard to bring coworkers up to speed on it. Management don't like that kind of thing.

What management like very much is that using F# attracts better talent, but they no can believe.
Google Is Likely Testing Its Own ChatGPT-Style AI
The crimes that he was convicted of have wide sentencing guidelines. 10 years to life and 20 years to life.

If you're convicted of a crime that carries, say, 1 to 3 years in prison then the judge could not sentence you to anything more than that. So even if you had some weird murder for hire chats on your computer - you would still get 3 years max.

Mitigating and aggravating factors don't have to be proven beyond reasonable doubt.

So the moral of the story is - if you do something illegal - don't commit violent acts as part of it. Judges really don't like that.
They need the ad money to run the website and the better analytics to know how to improve it. It’s not a mystery.
Just have to hope OpenAI isn't having a capacity issue when you get asked a question haha but a pretty good idea overall.
Update: The NHS is actually imploding. It's a mixture of lack of money, lack of foreign (EU) workers, a wave of early retirement because of Covid and a huge increase in sick leave also mainly because of Covid.

https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-crisis-how-did-we-get-here-an...

Waiting an hour and a half for an ambulance when you have a stroke or heart attack is the sort of thing that has long term consequences for your recovery, even if you don't die of it immediately.
Teams is notoriously bad software, so you can just say "Sorry, my Teams cut out again. Could you repeat that?" And everyone would believe you.
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Jerry said "what's the deal with airline peanuts?"[0] and the chat went wild.

(also can't believe they renamed Jerry as Larry and not George)

[0] https://clips.twitch.tv/PoisedTangibleAdminKippa-t2tZJCejx10...
that's amazing! this could be called something like a ... pyramid pattern? what do you think?
https://gorace.run

Requirements: Testers will need to be runners (at least some times) and have a Strava account.

Project Description: Challenge friends/family/colleagues for who will run X kilometers first. Integrates with Strava to track the progress and keep the leaderboard for the challenge up-to-date.

Contact Info: contact@gorace.run
I have thermostatic valves here which costed me something like 80€.

It's not as fancy as the Grohe. It looks like a classic two knobs system except the right one controls temperature with gradation in degrees while the left one controls flow.

Better temperature control doesn't have to cost an arm.
Wafer Scale Transfer of 2D Materials, Graphene
As a person who lived in both I can tell you in communism it's far worse, at least as far as personal integrity is concerned. In capitalism, maximum I can lose for speaking up is my job. In communism, as in all authoritarian/totalitarian regimes, it was - and still is - normal for people to lose their freedom or even life.

So as much as I hate corporate bullshit, their power grab, lobbying politicians etc., I would still prefer to live in a "capitalist" rather than a "communist" country.
What's the [Berke]?
> What is the belief in the existence of an afterlife called?

Answer: ancestor worship.

Then the explanation talks about the other three options, but does not reference afterlife.

I wonder what went wrong?
self hosting feels like an afterthought. That's a red flag, it means they actually don't have any open source users or ecosystem.
The Future of Picture-in-Picture
There's surely at least some that you don't know of because their developer made the decision to not release.
MrBeast: Why has YouTuber faced criticism for blind surgery video?
> non - Western countries dont teach Western (or German) history

In general they do because history is human history, not just some country's history, and it would pretty appalling to gloss over genocides of that magnitude.
newtown really used to be super cool. Like everything Sydney though - its much much more gentrified - and has just turned into restaurants and bars for yuppies. 10-15 years ago - the whole inner=west was rife with awesome gigs, international electronic acts, lots of pubs were doubling as places to host electronic - but NIMBYism really got the better of Sydney.

Hard to get a coffee at night in the city even :(
Another GDPR-compliant analytics alternative to Google Analytics
I love all these new analytics tools popping up. It's pretty great for those of us who want or need to be more privacy-focused with our customers. I'm expecting a proliferation of easier to use, modern marketing analytics alternatives to Amplitude and Heap any day now.