skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been tinkering on crawlers to doomscroll job boards for me, along with a half-formed hybrid of a CRM and Tinder for swiping through the various results and then tracking them.

I eventually want this to be usable enough to share with others for local use, and to demo on my portfolio, but for now I'm just trying not to spend more time building the tools than I am using them (and harvesting the redirect links is already enough to solve a lot of what makes the search process miserable). In the meantime it's mostly a cluster of experiments that range from teaching myself Web scraping, to generally aiming for a leaner tech stack than my prior full-stack experiences, to specifically asking myself "how much of this can I do in pure CSS?"

While I'm not sure I want the support burden of maintaining the scraping code in public (and anyway it makes more sense imo to just enable bulk upload so you can bring your own sources), I do have a massive beast of a writeup[0] documenting a lot of what went into that, and the API code is at least presentable (see my GitHub) even if the UI is too skeletal for that as of now.

[0] https://bhmt.dev/blog/scraping (fair warning: this is 10000 words not including code samples)
Yes, I have seen this. Looks interesting.

Its certainly targeting a more enterprise audience (much like ThreadX was originally)

You have to pay to use it, price unknown other than maybe >= 5k$ per year?, and it looks like it will be prohibitively expensive (for my usecases at least) to have source access.

To me, those make it nonstarters.
Imagine having the power of GPT, Groq, Anthropic and & Co-pilot with the connectivity of Slack or Microsoft Teams all in one place to seamlessly collaborate with anyone, anywhere! We've had nearly 100k code generations! .. Oh, and we have a FREE plan. www.paird.ai
Ente Auth is awesome - I've been using it ever since Authy discontinued their desktop app: https://mrbluecoat.blogspot.com/2024/03/bah-authy-discontinu...
You're pretty lucky to be unaffected. I'm not in defense, but just off the top of my head Lockheed is doing layoffs in CT due to the loss of FARA. Raytheon is continuing their layoff death spiral and shutting down some stuff in Texas. Boeing is hemorrhaging people and money for obvious reasons.

That's just the three largest contractors.
Here is a picture of the inside: https://ibb.co/sF8RLDv I can't seem to locate a picture of the outside.

The politician owner was not a "US senator" but a "state senator", IOW not a member of the US Senate but of the state senate. So not as prestigious as you think :)
So this theme is to organize contents like a book, chapters, subchapters, etc.?
Yeah, it runs surprisingly well due to their optimizations. Sadly, you are still somewhat CPU-constrained due to the way BSP processing works (every single wall is processed, one by one, and the map is rendered a few triangles at a time)
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The creat(3) tradition lives on.
GNU Guix. It is nice to have atomic and reversible operations, it is extremely easy to extend (I have even pushed package defitions upstream, which I have never done with any other distro), it is easy to use the package manager (though unfortunately not install) without root access.
Yeah, I suspect. As the article notes, it might be related to quantum simulation limits (e.g., QISKIT can't IIRC simulate more than 32 qubits), or taken from the literature on using Grover's alg to attack S-AES, but it feels pretty arbitrary to me (though I haven't been current on quantum computing for several years now).
I could buy this argument. Had I been a junior during the agile era, I'm not sure I would have developed as fast or as far as I have.

The most agile pilled company I worked for just treated juniors & seniors as interchangeable cogs, except seniors should be able to clear more points per sprint. Active discouragement from thinking outside the scope of your ticket, keep your head down and mouth shut.
I believe the speaker, when saying that physicists have stopped asking "what is matter", means that physicists have focused themselves on questions about the rules that govern matter and energy, and not on the question of what meaning these concepts have.

If we imagine nature as a board game to which we don't know the rules, but can see some of the set of pieces set before us and observe their interactions, physics focuses on the question "what are the rules to this game?" Our speaker in this question is asking "what are these pieces made of?"

String theory, as an example, does not posit that particles are made out of strings, it posits that we can model particles mathematically with a structure that we call a "string". In this use of the word, "string" is a metaphor. What the nature of a "string" is--whether it is a coded abstraction in a computer simulation, whether the math is ground truth itself, whether this question is intractable to the human mind--is left up to philosophy.
But the worker knows exactly what the job is worth at the point of acceptance. Did you actually read the article? The issue is that the offered amount is decided algorithmically through an opaque process not that the worker doesn't know how much they will get paid for it.

A specific user can decide whether or not to take a specific delivery with full information. Following your analogy, it'd be like using some opaque algorithm to set the offer amount when hiring for a job, which is pretty much what happens today.
YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio
Paper: Inner core backtracking by seismic waveform change reversals (11 points, 21 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40679957
>It's a problem when "philosophers" opine on physics without understanding physics very well

It's also a problem when physicists make assertions of fact on consciousness and psychology without understanding consciousness or psychology very well (which no one does).
Yes, take two heat pumps in series and run one as AC and another as heat and you'll get far more than 1.5 gallons of drinking water out of arid air than this
but who's the author?
It should be highlighted that the flagship app from ente is not their 2FA but their wonderful encrypted photo app. It is a fully encrypted alternative to Google Photo.

It is far from perfect but already very usable. There’s also a Linux desktop client that allows me to sync all my photos on my computer.

I really recommend them (nice team)
Discussion (613 points, yesterday, 350 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40874341
Can you please not create accounts to break HN's rules with? It will eventually get your main account banned as well.
The changes to the market are not just in the US though. Admittedly the US has ripple affects worldwide, but if you take the UK for example, the contracting market is basically non-existant now.
What's the point of having your 2FA codes synchronized across all your devices?

Isn't it in the name "TWO FACTOR"? It's supposed to be a separate device and ability to "across devices" comes as an anti-feature for me.

1) If you're not using password manager, then you're probably using same password everywhere, including your 2FA app.

2) If you're storing your 2FA codes in your password manager, then it's not really a 2nd factor. It helps against password leaks from services, not from a password manager leak.

Ability to synchronize encrypted backup is a different story.
It's also water cooled
Why is this the case? It's well known that ML models are almost always gameable if you know the weights. What right do you have to their algo?

Why not? The contractors know before directly accepting a contract it's value, they can choose to not accept it if they think they're being underpaid?

Except this is how things work at basically all companies? Compensation decisions are secret and only known at offer time, I don't think I've worked for a single company where the specific executive decision reasoning for an offer is given.
The way flag appears can be exploited to get very fast.

We can memorize the last two matches position and alternate from there, as flags may not be there when names are popping but after at most one elimination the flag must have appeared (and if you enjoy try-harding you can refresh the website until you get the two first flags and names aligned, so almost no mouse move nor memory are needed)
This reminds me of the Bob & Ray satellite. Their plan was to put a satellite into an orbit 50 feet up, and then sell advertising space on the sides of it.
I don't really understand, "paperclips" is a stand-in for anything that would make the universe have near-zero value (when tiled/converted to this substance/pattern) when evaluated as a hypothetical in a public poll. If you can't break 50% on global control via AI, no matter how you phrase the question, what chance do you have for getting democratic support to tile the universe in microscopic patterns that vaguely resemble office supplies?
I made a blackjack scalable game simulation with configurable decision matrix, bet scheme, and card counting rule configs (1 simple file).

The software isnt novel, so I did it for myself both as a personal proof of concept of my blackjack years, and as an exercise to poke corners of my cpp knowledge base, google mock and google test knowledge base.

Its a phase 0 core tech tho for a vidya Im making that I really really hope I make time for this year.

Ill follow up if I manage to get a demo available before end of summer. After my sprint in the career hustle over the last 7 years I need to do some self care and I feel this is the outlet.
Discussions

(15 points, 2 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40865218

(20 points, 17 hours ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40879417
Thank you for the kind words! "I appreciate them" would be an understatement.

And I agree entirely. Tracking the history of an abstraction will usually tell you its root, though it gets pretty muddy if that root is deep-seated!
United Oversharing on Delays
It was a manual process requiring the phone to be working, which doesn't help when you have an accident that damages the phone.
> Do the Earth's volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities? No.

I hope that a moderately dry and educational page like this would not be taken down for political satisfaction.
Discussion (43 points, 3 days ago, 15 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857236

Related Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s (308 points, 30 days ago, 203 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593674
HelloTech
Google: perfume reformulated carcinogen
Well, that certainly wasn't my intention, but in an environment of "I have a silver bullet and it'll cost you $X", I can understand the sentiment.

At the same time, I do want to show that I have confidence in my ideas. Hubris and confidence must be applied in equal parts.
Here’s how Qualcomm’s new laptop chips really stack up to Apple, Intel, and AMD
The perceived misery you describe I feel is self-inflicted. Many devs "below" me have become entirely disconnected from customer needs, instead only focusing on "interesting" dev problems.

Why do developers only work on ticket-sized portions of the actual requirements? To put it succinctly: because they are simply too dumb. They cannot wrap their heads around it. They cannot grasp it.

Do I sound frustrated? I am. It is inscrutable.

Sorry.
It's "diverted immediate-release stimulants", which usually means patients who sell their legally prescribed drugs instead of taking them. It's not immediately believable without looking at their methodology but I don't think it's all that farfetched. When I was in college the stuff was at least $5/pill with prices rising as high as $20/pill around finals. I suspect it's mostly just socioeconomic bias as it was an easy way for students to earn extra income while having their own supply. Maybe doctors are giving white males extra scrutiny when they ask for their own prescription?

It'd be interesting if other demographics preferred non-immediate release stimulants like Vyvanse or less abusable ADHD drugs because they were easier to source without going black market.
Mali has decent coverage. The pixel phones use them and so do a lot of mediatek based low-mid range devices.
This is straight up an unfair characterization. It's not "slaves making nothing at all", its fair value for their labor as decided by supply and demand. The issue you're highlighting shouldn't be solved by trying to legislate the market to oblivion which always introduces side effects. Just hand everyone a UBI payment a month and be done with it.
The large majority of the work code does can probably be boiled down to a series of transformations done by a hierarchy of pure functions with a fixed number of inputs/dependencies, all of which are easily testable in isolation.

It's unconstrained side effects and dependencies, resulting in an increase in complexity, that seem to cause the major issues and have to be managed.

The real problem, of course, is the human capacity to comprehend (or not) the entirety of the system or subsystem by modeling it correctly in the brain.
>Iraq war and now even the Israel war to make parallels

Well the West could simply stop the Genocide today and prove them wrong. If they think they have the moral high ground, they could repeal the Hague Invasion act. Throw in Bush and Blair and others for war crime trial. It is absolutely marvellous to think that the West which plundered millions in the last two decades has any more decency than Putin. Not that Putin is benign, but the West collectively have more capability and have used it as far as they can.
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More like, why do they complain if alternatives exist.
The article does not explain why Russia is doing it. So please some explain it?
Is this maybe what some cognitive scientists call "pseudo-profound bullshit"? [1]

I'm open to being persuaded otherwise.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
That's fair. LOL. It did begin there.

Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants.
Ask HN: How man monorepos does Google have?
I see the benefits of a monorepo but cannot imagine the scalability issues being solvable, especially not in large companies with many projects. How serious are these claims of FAANG and other big companies to use a monorepo. Are they really putting all their eggs in one basket or do they have in reallity many "monorepos" with not just a single project in them?

I know that at Google Android is separate, but apart from that: How many repos are there really?

What about other companies that claim they went monorepo?

I am also curious about any statistics for monorepos, like size, commits per day, etc?
Is older data archived and ever removed from the active repo?
A `jshell` wrapper that inherits the classpath of the current Gradle project. Wrote it using plain Bash, and it comes in handy when working with Java projects.
Thanks, I will try this! Do you use this setup?
Discussion (826 points, 4 days ago, 335 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40843778
I would not at all be surprised if the timeline for coming up for the justifications for the delay as a significant impact on the delay
I’m curious what benchmark you’re looking at. The M1 is a very competitive iGPU that is competitive with an Nvidia 1650.

Are you looking at pure gaming performance and are you sure it’s not going through a translation layer?

To quote Anandtech (https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...)

> Overall, the M1’s GPU starts off very strong here. At both Normal and High settings it’s well ahead of any other integrated GPU, and even a discrete Radeon RX 560X. Only once we get to NVIDIA’s GTX 1650 and better does the M1 finally run out of gas.
Delinking isn't a miracle technology in that regard, you still need to put in the work to reverse-engineer the artifact.

It does allow a couple of nifty tricks, like pervasive binary patching (if the program is chunked into relocatable object files, then you're no longer constrained by the original program memory layout when patching/replacing stuff). It's also useful for decompilation projects, where you can reimplement a program one piece at a time until you no longer have binary pieces left and still create a fully working program at each step (you don't even need perfectly matching decompilation since the linker will mend stuff back together anyway).
For both the 1700 and 5800X, the i/o die uses ~12W at idle, and 20W max at load (assuming he’a doing something that keeps the i/o die at max power consumption when everything else is idle).

This leaves us with 60W-68W unaccounted for at idle. Even in the worst case for i/o power usage that’s 75% unaccounted for.

I keep talking about TDP and load power because even in the case where the cpu isn’t using lower power states correctly for whatever reason, the i/o die cannot possibly be majority of the 80W power usage.

Source for power usage of i/o die:

1700 (same i/o die as 1300x/1500x): https://www.anandtech.com/show/11658/the-amd-ryzen-3-1300x-r...

5800x: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...
Discussion (211 points, 23 hours ago, 89 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877648
Well, doing some math, energy efficient dehumidifiers look to be around 2 L/kWh for midrange RH numbers. (Which is much better than the systems in the article.) So you could get maybe 8L per day.

Probably doesn't compare very well to rain water storage. A standard blue barrel will store 250L, or about a month's worth of solar dehumidifier production. Can do some more math on roof surface area and rainfall to work out barrel requirements.

Is also not economically great - e.g. at $0.20/kWh your electricity is worth about $1.6, but in my municipality 8L of water is worth under $0.03.
I built a map based software to organize and archive places I have visited and want to visit in the world. It includes routes (hikes, driving, cycling) and various markers for different spots. I use that to plan photography projects. I now have over 10k markers all over the world.

Previously this was a mess with multiple kml files and lots of dupes. Now it lives in MongoDB and has a clean interface using mapbox and vue. Probably spent 150+ hours on that, and do use it for all trip planning (photography and normal travels).

Its public but I never announced it anywhere. So only my wife and I use it, but it could be quite useful to others, I guess…

I also have some scripts for automating my tax reports. That saved me hours and only took a few to build.
Problems surrounding computing education do compound these frustrations, and I sympathize.

Having worked for larger organizations (whatever FAANG calls itself these days, I can't keep track), as well as academia and independent education, I've seen both halves of the "production line" for newcomers to computing.

Something has to change in how we bring individuals into our field. I have some ideas based on my experiences, but you're not in the wrong for feeling frustrated about this. It is the state of things, and many companies are not equipped to handle it, because it's unexplored territory.
Currently, any password from more than 6 months ago, names of all my acquaintances, photos of all my paystubs over the last 6yrs (thank you Equifax and dishonest HR platforms), .... Astounding amounts of misconduct are normalized. They're just not widely known yet.
Wow. That obviously is shocking to me ...
Discussion (38 points, 13 hours ago, 86 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40880077
Alright, fair enough. I'm curious about the space, and you've elucidated some things. Sorry for seeming like a know-it-all from a single source.

Is the job "fun"? (For someone's definition of "fun", when it comes to work, of course... A big payday may be "fun", entertaining clients may be "fun")
How to Shorten Scientific Manuscripts
As somebody from Northern Ireland, I'm really interested in the fact that NI had the biggest drop in traffic as opposed to England/Scotland/Wales after 4PM.

Is this just on that one day or is this normal for NI after this time? Also what is the impliciation being made here?
The NSA and their ilk would not have waited for AES to be broken. They would move to ban these things in response to theoretical albeit confident assessment of the risk.
Looks somehow similar to Minix.

I like the idea of people tinkering with os stuff.
Related ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly (669 points, 4 years ago, 449 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23979608
SKUF Network Boot System
chicken and egg arguments.. good points and not untrue, but look elsewhere in this topic and see extensive anti-trust behavior, questionable license practices, deceptive public statements and deceptive handling of binary blobs. Very much like Intel - excellent tech in certain places, very mob-like business behavior in other places.

"What are you talking about? AMD/Intel runs torch just fine!" refers indirectly to the value of having competition in markets, not jump on the (well-funded,slick) monopoly bandwagon.
So many, it's why I got into the field I suppose.

Like everyone else, I have a hacker news client, which is "universal" (in the Apple sense), and is made around how I use the site. I might even release this one, one day.
Show HN: I made an AI-powered recipe generator based on fridge ingredients
Moving backward in the rotating reference frame of the Earth. In other words, it's rotating slightly more slowly than the Earth as a whole.
Spinal fluid might cause migraine pain
I think that assumes that most games are targeting higher end graphics and are held back.

The majority of played mobile games would be the same as they are today imho even if you could achieve 4090 performance in that power envelope.
DuckDB Community Extensions
Running clinical trials is expensive, I imagine.

The article says they've only done testing in animals so far.
Nothing feels (in my personal life don't @ me) as much of an attack on my neurodivergence as the nonsense that is getting medication for my ADHD. I have to go to a doctors appointment to get a prescriprion, I have to call to get that prescription filled, I can't fill the prescription early so I don't run out, I have to go to the pharmacy to pick it up. All so we can pretend that college kids wont be able to obtain a substance that is arguably safer than caffeine. (They sell Tylenol over the counter and you can kill yourself with that even easier don't @ me).

If you don't know, all of the steps listed above are what my medication helps me accomplish. Its like they designed a wheelchair store with a full flight of stairs in order to get in.
> The testing/quick package is frozen and is not accepting new features.

Indeed. And respect to software that knows when it is complete, but is there some relevance to this here?

> Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30385195

While the distinction between fuzzing and PBT is, er, fuzzy, what is unquestionable is that PBT is not meant to be coverage driven. It is a means to document behaviour for other developers in a way that is, in some cases, more descriptive than providing a fixed set of examples or other "traditional" ways of providing such documentation. Seeking coverage and "interesting" cases, rather than providing documentation, is decidedly the role of fuzzing.
Do any of the many TOTP options have the ability to organize, or put codes into vaults? One you have more than a couple of dozen saved, it starts to get tedious.
>"Is the style guide they use for internal projects the same as this style guide that they have published externally?"

Consider that the style guide that AirBnB uses for internal projects is not the same as the style guide they publish externally, and you can sympathize with why the distinction matters :P.