skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> adds up to around 4-5 hours total.

> a few years ago when some companies were hiring anyone willing to do a short interview. Many younger engineers entered the workforce when that was normal and now any amount of interviewing feels unreasonable.

When I interviewed in the 90s "short interviews" were the norm.

4-5 hours are excessive. Especially if people are interviewing for 10 or more jobs. That's 40-50 hours interviewing. Even if you're single and young, that's onerous. Doubly so if you're senior with a family.

I'm not sure many other industries ask people to do tasks like this in their own time as part of the recruitment process. Certainly not one of my friends that's an engineer. He's never been asked to machine something on his lathe or milling machine. Nor one of my friends that is an architect. I can't imagine surgeons get many 'take home' tests either.
Well any network filesystem really. AFS was popular at some larger sites.
> We saw what happened to Bud Light when they ran a pride campaign - from which they're still recovering. Tractor Supply Company is currently reeling from their "woke" campaign. Both companies have right-wing majority markets and they lost significant sales and market share.

Perhaps not the central point of your message, I find the above phenomenon fascinating. I.e., a company that inexplicably alienates its principal demographic of clients through a seemingly unwise publicity campaign. I have the feeling that we're dealing with amateurish attempts to gain some points for the 'S' in ESG.
Bonus: Not being recognizable or a celebrity.
This has been going on for years. My own book got banned and there was no recourse. Are there any alternatives to KDP?
Small government implies big corporations, and somehow this eludes many.
Attak: A fighting game with deformable environment (2007)
This game was made almost 20 years ago by London team Johnny Two Shoes[0], and featured super-saiyan level of combat[1] whilst allowing players to completely destroy a city, carve canyons and underground bunkers, and plan vast vertical fall attacks.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Two_Shoes#cite_ref-JIG_...

1: https://johnnytwoshoes.fandom.com/wiki/Attak
> I had a take-home assignment to build a Dropbox competitor around 10 years ago, it was a pretty big project

I'm genuinely amused you thought (think?) it acceptable to do such work without payment. Here, any potential employer submitting such a request would be laughed at.
This is a better "lite" phone than all the current lite phones out there

It does very little, but also does all the essentials: maps, payment, music streaming, etc.
It's funny because you're right about all those examples, and it's reasonable to point to them when explaining a loss of trust in science... But most of them are actually just companies or industries manipulating the public with shitty science for marketing reasons. Kind of a bad apple spoils the batch situation.

Also I'm surprised the academic integrity crisis hasn't been mentioned yet... The cheating and plagiarism rates are orders of magnitude worse now than pre pandemic and LLMs
There was a discussion the other day about how we should explain "simple" things very obviously, because we just assume everyone knows what we know.

I didn't know about this theory and I'm glad the writer made an article about it.
You have a point, the problem is that AI might be better in some instances but in other instances for example insurance, banking, medical, in more critical cases, having an opaque system with wrong and rigid rules is worst than a nightmare. But everyone will jump on the bandwagon, not only the less problematic cases (I thing we agree that not buying a book might be considered less important than not receiving medical care) but everyone. In somes instances if AI does a worst job the consequences on human life might be terrible
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I think you’re getting some mixed advice here. While I agree with a lot of what the previous u/psyklic, has said, you need to realise that this isn’t just a blank startup from scratch. For 50% equity, you’re starting on the same level usually.

If you were both starting from scratch and equally investing time and/or money, 50% would be fair. However, this person has already pre-funded the startup, built the product, and handled the initial development and data. Given this investment, 50% equity for you doesn’t make sense.

From our experience with early-stage startups and various incubators and accelerators, 50% equity is only reasonable when starting from scratch. Since the founder has already invested in and developed part of the product, a fair range for you might be 20-30% depending on your overall value (e.g. beyond dev too, are you ex-airbnb, facebook etc that his investors will drool over or mid-senior dev).

The most critical aspect you need to evaluate is his ability as a CEO to sell and raise investment. 50% of nothing is pointless, but 25% of a successful venture is valuable. Assess his background, experience, and network in sales and fundraising. If he can drive the company forward, then 25% is a solid offer.

It’s also important to have a transparent conversation about your roles and expectations. The equity split should reflect the risks and contributions both of you are making.

P.S. The vesting terms are really generous indeed. Maybe ask him plainly why he set such terms compared to industry standards.

Goodluck!
So can we say the transistors of Clipper are ... clipping?

More seriously, I'd be interested to learn what failed in the quality assurance process, as NASA & its suppliers have a legendary reputation in these topics. RCA will be enlightening.
Show HN: Analyzed 1.5M insta and Twitter handles to develop username generator
I have analyzed 1.5 million instagram and twitter username handles and developed a platform to generate a perfect username for your social profile personalized to your interest, ensuring your handle reflects your unique character. Check it out and let me know what you think!
I'd wager they are using AI to ban books, so no, AI will not do a better job.
A proposal for destructive move through function arguments in C++ and C
A while ago, the paper 'The fate of empires' by John Glubb made regular appearences on this site.

https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-2F_iHS6BLtGJb2ad/TheFateofEm...

This presentation is a smaller part of that paper:

The good old science fiction basically corresponds to The Age of Intellect. Current SF corresponds to The Age of Decadence.
Same, I think there are a lot of people who measure themselves in relation to their neighbours, and if their neighbour lived in a castle and drove a horse carriage, they would feel the FOMO.

Me, I just want a house I can put solar panels on, fly a drone around, and generally treat as a large livable workhouse/playhouse. I don't want a pool. I don't want a boat. I don't want a fast car. A bike, and the ability to afford the odd plane ticket or cross-country train ticket in a comfortable class would be fine for me.
Yeah, and you definitely don't need celebrity-level money to stop working full-time and just do whatever if you really figure out what makes you happy and discard the rest.
It depends on the role. In web development, for example, there are lots of non technical things people can be good / great at that a coder might not be. Things like CSS, HTML, accessibility, semantics, things like that. Lots of JavaScript people have no idea how to leverage CSS and over engineer things or find it impossible to implement certain features or if they do, it's 1000s of lines of code when it's really just a few lines of CSS.
Can you name a couple of your favourite recent sci-fi books that have this optimism?
Would love to read something not dystopian once in a while.
First thing I thought of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4g4WBo-5fc
Not a bad looking website. I like it better than most of that responsive CSS/JS bloated nightmares out there. I wish more websites were faster loading like this one.
16-21 is a super hard age. I have no idea what affect that kind of credentialism will have, maybe it just ends up delaying the growing pains that take place. Which might not be a good thing because high school and college are more forgiving than what comes after
Hey, I run two somewhat popular music recommendation websites, the Music-Map and Gnoosic. I currently experiment with the ability to feature the music of artists, so I have put your music up on Gnoosic:

https://www.gnoosic.com/artist/freddie+veggie

And put you on the map next to some other didgeridoo artists:

https://www.music-map.com/freddie+veggie

I'm not yet sure when I will turn the signup into a public feature. Currently, I'm interested in feedback from artists. If you like, shoot me an email. The two sites have a pretty big audience, and I would like to find out how I can use it to help small artists.
Agreed. Thnks for pointing that out. I still didn't get around studying all those fallacies and how to argue logically. I should learn about one per day and find an example when the fallacy becomes a non-fallacy.

But isn't it a measurable factor? ... people get free stuff, people don't question their benefactor, people agree to rely on him, people become dependent beyond the extent of constructive codependence
Pippy has stage level approvals. As far as I know,after playing with GHA a lot, the only approval is for the entire PR.
The same credential game in the top 10 trickles down unfortunately
Neither provides a fair distribution of coins.

Admittedly, neither does Bitcoin, what with every next generation getting to mine 32x less than the previous one. But PoW with a fixed block reward would come as close as possible.
Thanks.

All good and valid questions.

1. I work mostly in Rust so I'll answer there in terms of async. This library [0] uses queues to manage workload. I run a modified version [1] which creates 1 writer and n reader connections to a WAL backed SQLite and dispatch async transactions against them. The n readers will pull work from a shared common queue.

2. Yes there is not much you can do about file IO but SQLite is still a full database engine with caching. You could use this benchmarking tool to help understand where your limits would be (you can do a run against a ramdisk then against your real storage).

3. As per #1, I keep connections open and distribute transactions across them myself. Checkpointing will only be a problem under considerable sustained write load but you should be able to simulate your load and observe the behavior. The WAL2 branch of SQLite is intended to prevent sustained load problems.

[0]: https://github.com/programatik29/tokio-rusqlite
[1]: https://github.com/seddonm1/s3ite/blob/0.5.0/src/database.rs
Yeah presumably they got a version of the "Give me $1 Billion and I'll scrap all climate regulations on day 1" offer Trump made to the Oil industry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil...
Wow, great stuff. Tell her she did a fantastic job!

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By necessity, kids these days don't even need to learn what a file is. Videos are "on youtube". Documents are stored "in ms word".

The median developer even seems to have a very shallow understanding of how a computer actually works. And why would they, if they can just glue some Lambdas together to earn a buck?

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Praise those that look a bit deeper and really want to know how a thing works, how you can create something truly original with a tool, instead of simply using it along the happy path.
But not dedicated ones
Very cute!

I did something similar with my dad when I was a kid. First basic HTML then Dreamweaver.

A couple years down the road and I’m working at a SaaS company.

Beware.
True, but at $500k, being frugal means living a $250k standard of living, which is still way more than most people have.

I guess it comes down to what you see as negative impacts. I'd never been further than maybe 1500 miles from home until my mid teens, so I don't feel like my kids miss out by not having the kind of globetrotter holidays that people on $500k can do. If I had that kind of money, I'd rather save it and escape the grind ten or twenty years earlier. But I guess if your $500k peers are all going to Dubai and Singapore with their families you might feel differently.

Same with cars, clothes and so on. I'm not talking about barebones ramen living, more trying to take an objective view on the relationship between spend and quality of life, and outside of a few of the most expensive cities, there's a pretty sweet spot well below the 500k mark.
> Except the nature of fallacies is that they look real on that same linguistic level, so those features aren't distinctive for that purpose

Well that's actually good news. With a large enough labelled dataset of actually-sound and fallacious text with similar grammatical features you should be able to train a discriminator to distinguish between them using some other metric. Good luck with getting that data set though.
> ... the problem is that AI might be better in some instances ...

It's not good for anything. Every time you spot how useless it is for a specific task, the AI fans say you are using it wrong and for the wrong purpose, and please give it more data and time to get better. It's garbage and the VC money is running out. It'll become a forgotten acronym soon.
SED (In)Security: Hardware-based Full Disk Encryption (In)Security
Brett Deveraux, in his Fremen Mirage series, looks at the trope of "hard times produce strong men" and how decadence leads to decline: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...

His result is that this is not true. The trope is also related to historically untenable ideas such as the "noble savage" or, if you take it too far, fascism's quest to bring back "real men".
> Or do you actually believe the “Milwaukee Tool Store” selling $50 impact wrenches is official

I guess not, does not seems like official store. I buy tools from aliexpress sometimes. Most are good. It is hard to get specialised stuff in EU.

People do buy real Milwaukee tools in China.

> Aliexpress has less oversight than Amazon. Why would the QC on Aliexpress be better?

This is the point! Value added by Amazon (oversight) has negative value. It gives false sense of security. It gass light people! People may think "it is like wallmart" and put fuse from amazon into their car or house!

> But the trusted brands are still there, Amazon still carries tons of brand name product

That is not the point! Amazon logistics is contaminated with fake sellers, unchecked returns etc... Their usability is bad, you change color and store changes to some Chinese seller!

You can not trust stuff bought from amazon. Maybe trick with checking serial numbers works for now, but it may stop anytime!

This stuff started way back in 2013, with fake climbing carabiners!
That sucks. My advice as a content creator is to never put too much weight into one platform. When you write books, try KDP, try traditional publishers, try selling direct on a website. When you make videos, use YouTube but also try making a course on Udemy and do direct tutoring. Sign up for Substack and Patreon. Spread it out, fight it when you can, and move on when you can't. Some people have had this sort of thing happen with their YouTube also.
"Did you know that a cat can fall from a 32 story building and survive!"

I love how this ends on an exclamation mark and not a question mark. Obvious in hindsight.
This article is just way too long.
Show HN: Modelsmith – Yet another LLM entity extractor
I made a thing!!! Yes I know I should not be that excited but it feels great to release something.

I have been busy building a RevOps partner in thought chat bot that uses an agentic framework to get different types of information to our users. (Gotta love the new word salad we have today ;D )

As part of this work we needed to do entity extraction from text and get Python types or Pydantic models back. We are using Google's Vertax AI and nothing out there existed for it at the time. So I took inspiration from other Python packages and built Modelsmith.

Over time it has evolved to now support Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, and Open AI APIs.

It is designed to be simple to use and also simple to understand the code base.

Hopefully it is of use to someone else out there.

(PS be gentle in the comments Hacker News ;) Feedback is always appreciated)
I was really drawn in and thinking deeply about this, until I got to the end:

The content analysis of each film and TV show was generated with the ChatGPT 4o large language model. [..] So the content analysis for each film and TV show – as well as the short explanation of its answer – are based on ChatGPT 4o’s responses.

I immediately discounted everything I'd just read. I cannot imagine doing this work manually, but I also cannot imagine believing that these effects are real based on ChatGPT's determination.

Maybe that's just indicative of my current "AI" cynicism, but it was remarkable to me how immediately my opinion changed.
A lot of IRC channels have sporadic activity at best. Most regulars just have their IRC client open and in a lot of channels all day. When conversation happens they'll join in.
How much in terms of millions in today’s dollars? For how many years does it last? Family? I’m in my mid 30s and I’m wondering if I can escape.
He probably tried to say that taking care of toddlers is a bigger positive impact on society than writing some crappy code that will be discarded a year later.

Yes, some software is important to the world and makes it a much better place. Vast majority of the code does not make such impact though. And then there's plenty of code that makes the world a worse place (insert your favourite evil company here).
Love it! Well done Naya, the information on the page is excellent!

By any chance was this made on a tablet? I see it mentions “tablet… make a website”. Perhaps if children grow up having accessing to tablets over computers, making websites on them won’t seem as foreign compared to a computer.
The 2025 model year Porsche Taycans can do 320 kW peak charge rate:

https://www.caranddriver.com/porsche/taycan

https://youtu.be/0ZrEhUl5syE?t=2088
> A dog that my aunt has uses a button to tell her if she's hungry or tired.

I‘m intrigued! We also have two dogs and the more I know them, the more I‘m fascinated by their ability to tell us exactly what they feel. I didn’t know they can learn to use buttons to do this.
she's done an amazing job! More motivation to teach my 6.5 year old something about HTML
> Also with higher interest rates, organizations with millions and billions of cash sitting idle can park their money in safe government-backed interest accounts to grow their balances risk-free instead of taking on risk assets seeking outsized returns.

Are interest rates alone really the right metric here?

I remember from basic econ classes that "interest rate 1%, inflation 0%, result happiness; interest 10%, inflation 20%, result misery".

Of course, interest rates and inflation are not independent, but I think the argument still holds?
that's exactly how! self-interest. being lazy is always up there as an option. some people button-mash that shit the minute they wake up. and not all of them are poor, unhappy, unhealthy. it's usually only when other people feel the need to remind them that they can press pause and the check the list of available commands to which they usually answer something like: "no shit, sherlock", that they suddenly feel inadequate and stressed.
I never know what to reply to those "name a bad thing about you" questions. Being honest seems like a terrible idea, but then what would an acceptable "bad thing" be to lie about? Do I say the cliche of "I work too hard" that nobody believes?
"Toimii kuin junan vessa"

A Finnish saying "Works like a train toilet" meaning something that works with utter reliability.

This is because old Finnish trains simply had a flap in the toilet to dump the shit out onto the tracks. However, if it broke, it would invariably break in the open position, meaning it still worked.
This is what I felt when I saw the image at the end of the piece.
Bridge maintenance is sorely needed across the whole country.

Anyway, the reason this stuff doesn't get enough funding is because the process of sorting out public spending priorities is called politics. Everybody has their own idea about what needs money and how much money should be thrown around. There's no objectively correct way to sort it all out, no means by which we can weigh the relative merits of increased library funding against retrofitting single family homes against earthquakes except by asking people which they prefer. And different people have different tolerance for risk, somebody who decided to tolerate the risk of a major earthquake sometime in the next X years because they'd rather fund some other project isn't necessarily wrong. It's not a matter of simply educating people about the risk (and FWIW, the average person in Seattle is definitely aware that the region is geologically risky.)
Just wanted to chime in here and say that I, too, got banned from KDP, but in a rather sinister way. They initially locked me out of my account totally, only for access to be reinstated after an email to them. I thought, phew, that was lucky! Little did I know I was still banned…

What I hadn’t realised until releasing my next novel was that whilst I was free to publish work to the platform—and free to run and pay for ads—I wasn’t actually able to collect my royalties! It took me a while to realise this as there’s quite a lag between sales and payout. I was livid. After many emails I’m still not able to collect unpaid royalties on the new novel.
It's obvious that you can't solve hallucinations by curating the dataset when you think about arithmetic.

It's trivial to create a corpus of True Maths Facts and verify that they're correct. But an LLM (as they're currently structured) will never generalise to new mathematical problems with 100% success rate because they do not fundamentally work like that.
OTR uses obsolete insecure crypto unfortunately.

https://dustri.org/b/time-to-sunset-otr.html
> Rather than helping individuals survive, it evolved to help us broadcast our experienced ideas and feelings into the wider world. And this might benefit the survival and wellbeing of the wider species.

Not another "survival of the species" confusion. Social cohesion helps the survival of the individual genes. If anything, our society is actually rather precarious for species-level survival due to its self-destructive nature. Genes are not selected based on species-level survival.
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Do you think the US has small government now, that's created these big corporations?
Love it! The background is awesome! The 90s / early 2000s vibes this gives! Looks straight out of geocities and I love it. Great work Naya!
You've erased a lot of nuance there between two very different situations.
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why switch to amd and not just switch to X? :D
Very nice! And I actually learned something about cats. Never knew they can see a little bit behind them ;-)
Darwinism was revolutionary for its time but we are kind of moving beyond it already.
Apparently only if they're anti-trans activists writing in political magazines sponsored by right-wing multimillionaire Conservative party donors who support Brexit and Climate Change denial.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/j...
I mean, if they plagiarized the paper it's only right to thank the people who helped the original version, no?