skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: MA, USA

Remote: yes, only (I have chronic insomnia, so this is a hard requirement)

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: JavaScript (some TypeScript but not
extensive), React, Vue, Node, Deno, Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, SQL

Website: bhmt.dev

Email: hey @ "

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/smmorrissey

Github: [this username]

I'm a full-stack Web dev with about 2yrs in production environments, as well as a scattering of freelance work/side projects and >5yrs prior experience running/being support desks in various capacities (including one that also involved some Scrum Master work). I'm primarily self-taught, in ways that are fueled by -- in varying parts -- a DIY habit, a distaste or depending on cloud vendors, troubleshooting dives, and an urge to automate out tasks I (or other people) don't want to do. (That last one is where I'd say my best work tends to be.) I enjoy excuses to expand on this, and have a few other areas of curiosity beyond the ones I'd actually call an expertise, ranging from DevOps to cybersecurity to ML.

Longer-term, I really want to work on open-source and/or Web infrastructure (examples of orgs that have previously caught my attention include Mozilla, GitLab, and Element), but in the immediate one I don't have strong opinions about mission fit right now, as my core focus after a particularly traumatizing previous workplace is to find someplace that operates differently.

So much so that I've been on a Web scraping rabbit hole for the last several months, building a bot to doomscroll job boards for me so that I have an escape hatch if it ever happens again. There's also a writeup[0] of this, and a few other projects on the path from initial client-side tinkering to full-on browser automation, on my website if you're interested in a 10000 word dive into the topic.

Some other recent experiments have included writing a demo track in Sonic Pi, and toying around w `osquery`[1] to finally get some tangible exposure to SQL.

[0] https://bhmt.dev/blog/scraping

[1] https://bhmt.dev/blog/osquery
At work we write a CRUD-ish B2B application, and it started its life on Windows so is a Win32 application.

We're working on transitioning to the web so perhaps in a decade we'll be entirely off Windows, but for now we and our users run Windows. Directly, or indirectly via published applications.

At home it's primarily RDP. Haven't found any viable alternative for Linux, so my main desktop stays Windows for now.
Desired Positions: Technical Project / Program / Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Full-Stack Engineer

Location: San Diego, CA

Remote or Hybrid: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Elixir (Phoenix), Ruby (on Rails),
Python (FastAPI), JavaScript,
PostgreSQL, Linux, Heroku, AWS, Jira,
Trello, MS Project, Slack etc..

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalontheline

Email: vishal@vishal.rs

Are you drowning in work / requests / complaints and need someone to create some breathing room, improve communication, help people get organized, prioritize requests, and generally improve trust and transparency?

Alternatively, are you trying to find a full-stack engineer with a product mindset?

I have experience as a technical project manager and full-stack software engineer, as well as some product, business development and operations management, mostly in startup environments.

I love to talking to executives, users, designers, and product managers. I love making sure that everyone has what they need to do their best work. I love making sure that people communicate well. I love fixing bugs and building features to make users happy, while finding time to improve systems that users never see.

Happy to help out any way I can. Please, feel free to reach out via email or Linkedin.
That's how many have been conclusively classified as Martian out of "the 72,000 meteorites [total] that have been classified". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite)

That's obviously not the actual total that have ever made it here.

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/fac...

> Scientists estimate that about 48.5 tons (44,000 kilograms) of meteoritic material falls on Earth each day.

That has been going on for billions of years. If the 277/72,000 proportion holds that's a lot of material.
I have W11 due to building a gaming PC with a modern CPU with "efficiency cores", which W10 doesn't support proper task scheduling of. From a stability and performance standpoint the OS has been fine, but every update there's a whole new enshittified UI / UX feature that I have to figure out how to turn off.
Imho the TPM 2.0 requirement killed Windows 11. There's still huge fleets of incompatible, yet still perfectly useful, PCs out there - especially in large corp environments.
Who "rests and vests" more than a VP or SVP, in other words the people making these layoff decisions? The whole upper part of the org does no useful work and vests at rates hundreds of times higher than the people being fired.
Unless you happen to have a CPU which isn't supported, like those still being made at the time when w11 was released. High end cpus too.
I’ve only ever seen Gantt charts used by waterfall assholes who talk about commitments and promises to get free overtime.

Some techniques are good but ruined utterly by the company they keep.
Reminds me of prose.sh. Turns out, there’s a lot you can do if you SSH keys as an authentication mechanism!
Young terrestrial planets should tend towards a reducing atmosphere, due to all the rocks and such oxidizing. It took ages for life on Earth to produce sufficient oxygen to switch to an oxidizing atmosphere. We have evidence that Mars did start reducing and switch at some point. That Mars became oxidizing is certainly curious, considering the reason that happened on Earth.
Again, ignoring mainframes during the 1970's.
You don't have to render to PDF, you can just have some UI that keeps re-rendering Lilypond source to your screen size and zoom level every time you zoom.

Or render each measure to a separate .png file and just <img> for each measure. It will wrap and re-flow, you just have to deal with the clefs separately.
The instructions to changing firmware on a tablet before repartitioning had me backing up and restoring IMEI and MAC address etc.
It's this dispersed ownership I'm objecting to. Ultimately it's indistinguishable from being a citizen living in a region. We have a way of representing such collectives: the government of that region. Only here, we have a law that's effectively undemocratic.
I wonder if you could get them to agree to drop that interest?
How the push to ban TikTok spurred a new Washington influence machine
There is a cannabis dispensary here offering delta-8 and -9 THC products (legal in Texas because they derive from hemp) takes credit cards. Perhaps they are too small to matter while living on borrowed time, but most/all dispensaries around here take CCs.
> What keeps Windows afloat?

Gaming, enterprise, education, healthcare, manufacturing, etc etc. PCs are everywhere. You can run 40 year old software and they’re upgradable.
There are only two subscriptions that Tesla offers: FSD and Premium Connectivity.

And since you still have the option to purchase FSD outright, I don't consider the subscription option as rent-seeking.

With Premium Connectivity, the way I see it, it's necessary to actually cover the costs associated with it. For those unaware, Premium Connectivity, you don't get any video/audio streaming services in the car, and the navigation can only use bare maps rather than satellite imagery. Note that these limitations don't apply if you instead tether to a mobile WiFi AP, such as your phone. The $10/month pays for the extra data your car uses on the mobile network, which could be a LOT of data if you watch video streaming while supercharging frequently.

Unless Tesla is getting a sweetheart unlimited data deal from some carrier, there are probably some people that actually cost Tesla money from streaming a ton of video. But someone like me, who drives only ~5 hours/month, I'm probably not using much data from the audio streaming.
I finally got the upgrade to Windows 11 and it's... fine?

I don't get all of the hate. Maybe it's because I'm late and everything has been fixed, but it's actually been my favorite version of Windows so far. It finally axed some of the vestigial UIs from Windows 8. And built-in driver support for things like controllers and bluetooth accessories have been a huge upgrade.

I'm ready to be showered in a hail of messages about ads or bloatware or changed layouts, but I found all of the defaults and settings relatively easy to change - if anything easier to find than even Windows 10.

This is a relatively tiny blip, and nearly every other hardware survey tool seems to indicate W11 adoption is chugging along briskly.
It's not a technical requirement but rather a purely marketing one. It's trivially bypassable.
Companies, free OEM licenses, and habit.

It's not a bad OS, I'm thinking more and more about moving to Linux, but Windows 11 is fine for me and has the broadest compatibility. There is nothing that doesn't work with Windows, since WSL2 it runs nearly all Linux software, and there is nothing that bothers me too much.
Ignoring mainframes during the 1970's, predating home micros.

Why don't you actually read my comments fully?
> I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat?

MS Excel
You have to remember a lot of those expenses are actually goosing the companies revenues side with low qual revenue. A good portion of investment dollars into OpenAI are with Microsoft credits -- which OpenAI then uses as opposed to real money.

Doesn't answer your problem issue - though the real dollar cost of investment and training is lower.
Fair enough. Tracing is a pretty heavy tool, though in a dynamic runtime you can get it automagically.
Wsl is imo more convenient then dual boot.

And since most people are used to windowsUI, going out of their way to switch to Linux while still keeping windows installed just doesn't make much sense.
Also, with wsl I can switch back and forth seamlessly, while dual boot is inherently clumsy when trying to cross the barrier.
Himars has done a lot (until they ran out) to keep this from a WWI type war. Drones are everywhere on the battlefield. this war doesn't look like WWI, it looks like a soviet war.
If pressed I’ll put this as, “once you substituted your judgement for mine this became your problem.”

I’m not going to enthusiastically absorb the consequences of bad decisions I already tried to route us around.
Many young and educated people in a relatively small number of cities until they decide to start a family and then historically they moved out. One also wonders what affect more remote/hybrid work will have. My cohort in the late 80s basically didn’t live in the city unless that’s where their job was which it wasn’t in the case of the computer industry. There’s nothing inevitable about young professionals wanting to live in cities and certainly not staying there.
Main OS.
This seems obligatory: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html
Ideal Medtech | https://idealmedtech.com | Senior Systems Engineer | Senior Software Engineer | Asheville, NC | Full-time | ONSITE preferred, FULLY REMOTE with the right skill set (USA only)

Ideal Medtech is a clinical stage medical device startup looking to control every feasible physiological parameter in the hospital -- starting with glucose. This technology has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives a year, billions of healthcare dollars, and thousands of nursing hours.

We're looking to hire a senior engineer with experience developing medical devices in the US or European Union. You'd be working directly with me, the technical founder, owning product development and documentation required for three Class II 510(k) submissions (pumps, control software, and maybe helping a strategic as needed with sensors). Some (but not all) standards you should be familiar with: 60601, 62304, FHIR

You would be working directly with a team at a contract manufacturer (CM), and would be involved in high-level technical decision making, software development, and helping the CM with documentation.

As an early hire, you'd have the option to take equity as part of your payment.

If any of the following skills describe you, feel free to send me an email (see profile):

- Medical Device Cybersecurity

- Firmware Development

- Formal Verification

- Physiological Closed-Loop Control

- Knowledge-Based Systems

- Reinforcement Learning

Please include your CV, salary expectations, timeline for hiring, and any open-source code you're proud of and would want to talk about!
There does seem to be a "Diagnose network problems" in the context menu when right-clicking on the internet connection icon.
Is there a particularly favored and useful bank or CC that doesn't obstruct online gambling?
Was kinda hoping this was some place selling made coffee, but I do realize the reach of that would be small.

But I do kinda like the idea of something as... niche as this popping up in a highly tech area and then offering the ability to buy and get your coffee without ever seeing someone.

Like you just walk into a room with a rotating door (like one you might see at a doctors office for samples) or something like that.

Feels very... introvert and would be kinda fun.
Sorry for the late reply, but if you read this, there is research that shows that prompting a LLM to take variety of perspectives on a problem (IIRC it was demonstrated with code) then finding the most common ground answer improved benchmark scores significantly. So, for example if you ask it to provide a brief review and likelihood of the answer, and repeat that process from several different perspectives, you can get some very solid data.
Show HN: web-p2p-tunnel, WebRTC+ServiceWorker HTTP tunnel to localhost
Hey HN, web-p2p-tunnel is a hobby project I built over the past month.

It enables you to expose a local web server to devices on different networks. Nothing to install on the consuming devices - just a web browser. And no server in the middle. It uses a Service Worker to intercept HTTP requests and WebRTC to tunnel requests/responses directly between consuming devices and the device running the local web server.

To use: install the web-p2p-tunnel CLI program which receives requests, reverse proxies them, and tunnels responses. See the README for details. The website is deployed using Github Pages at https://tunnel.andrewt.io/. Additionally, a signaling server is deployed at https://signal.andrewt.io/.

I've tested on a number of OSs and browsers and with simple static web sites and more complicated apps. A lot of it just works, but there are kinks and edge cases and almost certainly bugs. Let me know :) Currently, there are no TURN servers configured, so connections may fail under certain network conditions.

Motivation: I built some media features using WebRTC at my last job. It's a bit of a pain to use, but it's a powerful technology. On the media side of things, however, P2P quickly turns into more of a client-server situation w/ something like an SFU for common use cases. From my understanding, WebTransport might become the better technology for this use case. This got me thinking about use cases that would specifically benefit from the P2P aspect of WebRTC, which led me here. I was inspired in part by this project: https://github.com/rtctunnel/rtctunnel.

Excited to share the project - I think it could be a useful dev tool. Feedback appreciated!
meeeeee :3
Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for multimodal LLMs
There's dozens of us. Check out the laserdisc forever group on Facebook.
I have no opinion on this specific case, but I had visibility into a lot of research at both MIT and Stanford. A lot of data is made up.

In a few cases, this is simply fabricated, but in most cases, the techniques used don't raise to the level of data fabrication. There is a lot one can do in data analysis, interpretation, experimental design, etc. designed to lead to a specific result. MIT, at least, will not treat this as malpractice, even though the ultimate results are nonsense, and often lead to actual human harm when they drive real-world actions.

It pisses me off.
They broke that streak at the turn of the century. 95 was bad, 98 was good, 2000 was good, XP was good, and then Vista was bad.
Kind of disappointed that there is no option for commands like “ls” or “whoami”. I think it would be a nice addition, especially if this inspires other people to launch similar pages for other types of products.
The calendar view does exist, but it is collapsed by default. If you expand it, it looks very similar to the Win10 calendar.
> But here? There's no one to buy off to relax the constraint. It's held in perpetuity by the dead hand of the past.

I'd agree that there no one specific with whom you could re-negotiate the condition, but that doesn't mean there is "no one". It means that the negotiation must involve everybody who has made decisions based on the presence of the covenant, and who would be negatively impacted by it.

As others have mentioned, there are procedures in place that could strike down a covenant. It isn't the "dead hand of the past" that is being protected. It's the current homes of the living.
Show HN: Runtask – A Go-Based, Cross-Platform Task Runner
Hi HN!

With my projects I often end up in a situation struggling with a bunch of bash, batch and script files to help me automate certain tasks. Each with their own limitations. Bash files don’t work on Windows, batch files aren’t compatible with Unix, and they tend to get messy quickly. Even when using Go for some of my automations, I still end up needing batch and bash files for certain commands.

So, I decided to write my own solution. My requirements:

- Easy to install

- Minimal dependencies

- Simple script creation

- No need for compilation

- Run on all my platforms

- Support a modern programming language

Here's what I came up with:

https://github.com/bartdeboer/runtask

A task runner that uses Yaegi to run Taskfile scripts written in Go.
Reminds me of my friend’s zine-via-telnet:
https://anewsession.com/
Can I assume AI are continuing their training as they interact with people when deployed? Are ChatGPT, Claude, learning from my interactions with them? I do, BTW, correct them when they unknowingly (I assume) steer me wrong.

One wonders, if that's the case, how quickly an AI might improve if it has something close to Google's search site throughput. I mean fielding several billion queries a day, for a year — that would be some pretty stellar training right there I would think.
Strongly agree, but you should still be able to feeling like you are growing (maybe not in a management sense) without revenue growth. It can also be a limitation of your team (either not being stronger than you as an engineer which pushes growth) or just the team size being sufficiently small where you are mostly on your own.
Microsoft heavily divested from their OS business a while ago. Only the tiniest fraction of their income comes from selling end-user license keys.

Even if you don't use their OS, you probably give them money in gaming or indirectly through their enterprise clients.
Nice, would you guys consider open sourcing the adaptor portion of the product so others can contribute?
I subscribe to this thought. HN has really made a turn that anything Elon does is bad even when he has managed to pull off some unbelievable feats. He isn't binary in his accomplishments as most people are fairly complex.

It's a sad state of affairs - though I imagine its mostly cross-over of younger generations blending in their polarizing reddit politics over here. It is a dilutive process unfortunately.
How incredibly cool to see young people that are interested and capable of building things! I have a couple of rhetorical questions.

How do you expect a language model to see through propaganda and other large-scale misinformation by power/money with a megaphone?

How do you expect a computer program that can't reliably determine what letter a word starts with to determine objective truth?

I appreciate that you have a passion for the subject, but this tool is fundamentally unable to do what you wish it to do. If your goal is to make money -- keep going forward. Big promises built on lies have made many tech billionaires. If your goal is to combat misinformation you'd be better served by doing it in a different way than relying on a machine.

If you're building this at sixteen you have no limits. Don't take this as discouragement towards building things -- take it as a warning against cybernetic totalism. Make the world a better place not through technology that tells humans how to be or how things are; make the world a better place by building technology that adapts itself it human needs. Maybe even build technology that needs humans more than the humans need the technology.
zero interest rate startups are still in fashion I see.
For me it was an overall improvement over Windows 10. Every new release of every software has some drawbacks, but I got over getting upset about those little details. I just try to find new solutions, if old ones stop working.
> Microsoft let some designers who only use Mac OS do the design

I was wondering why Win11 ripped off that central icon taskbar thing from MacOS instead of keeping their iconic and proven layout. That explains everything.
Chicago: Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin
Location: Mexico City

Remote:Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:Node.js, Typescript, Nest.js, Postgres, AWS, MongoDb, Python, Vuejs

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-cruz-y-vera/

Email: andrscyv@gmail.com

5+yoe
Was it ever on the rails? Influencers are just ad folks who found even the limited ethics of the big ad companies too constraining, right?
A layoff generally means "business is slow, so we don't need you anymore" (its not you, its us), where firing for cause generally means "you're not performing up to minimum standards" (its not us, its you). In most places in the US, a layoff comes with state unemployment benefits, where as being fired does not.

Most importantly, a layoff leaves other people with the feeling "that could have happened to me, I'd better start looking for new opportunities", where as a firing for cause generally allows one to think "that person was such a slacker, how did it take so long"...
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Remote: Yes. Flexible on time zones.
Willing to relocate: No (occasional travel fine)
Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node/React/Angular, HTML/CSS, Google Cloud (GCP), C/C++, Bash (and shell scripting in general), Go/Golang
Résumé/CV: Available on request
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-westhafer-91449b181
GitHub: https://github.com/bradwesthafer
Email: brad.westhafer at protonmail dot com

I'm a language agnostic software engineer who has spent the last year and a half doing full-stack web development with Google Maps APIs and the 3 years before that doing C systems programming on a compiler/database at a startup. I'm also a Google Cloud certified Associate Cloud Engineer. I'm always looking to broaden my skillset and learn new technologies.

Open to either full time or freelance/consulting work.
> what keeps Windows afloat?

The fact that it's the only OS you can get preinstalled on an inexpensive computer from a reputable brand is why 90% of its users use it. People willing to spend $1k+ for a laptop mostly buy Apple.

(ChromeOS is a minor exception to this, but its usage is negligible [1], probably because it's so limited by design.)

[1] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop...
It's more like having stoner friends and doing things with them has convinced me just how important it is that they aren't the ones driving.

In fact, I'd say the same of anyone even people on traditional drugs.