skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could probably write a browser extension that catches clicks on goo.gl/ URLs and queries a web backend for the original URL (a backend that needs to be filled with the original short-to-full URL mapping , and so preserve the ugliness.

And since we're all obsessed about money, one could put a 5 second ad before doing the actual redirect, and offer a pro subscription for redirects for many bucks a month...
> I know the EU was trying to get closer to Belarus and vice-versa before "you know what"

"you know what" after 2020-2021 protests and continuing systematic torture of political prisoners are the big reasons not to go there
You're incorrect. Inflation numbers do account for substitution effects (ie. People buying a cheaper replacement good). Something no one buys that goes up in price 100x has no substantial effect on inflation, while food that everyone buys going up 10% goes straight into it. Depends on the agency doing the stats and calculations, but it's probably in the ballpark.

Adjusted, people have more purchasing power today, even if they are spending relatively more on housing.

High house prices suck, and definitely are a big problem, arguably self-bflicted in most places by increasingly onerous regulations (zoning, building quality, minimum sizes, and so on). Certainly there are some benefits to that, but all comes at the cost of increased house prices.

The other thing is labour has become relatively very expensive compared to most goods today, and houses embed a huge labour cost component - so their price (along with other labour-intensive sectors like, well, education and healthcare), have gone up much more than eg. Food, which can be produced largely with capital investment (tractors and so on)
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I imagine your friend is genuine. During undergrad/before 2014 I attended a summer school (https://www.jass.school) in St. Peterburg. I found the city to be welcoming, almost European in ambiance, with friendly university students. It never felt too foreign or unsafe. In my experience, St. Peterburg is as distinct from how I imagine Moscow as San Francisco is from Dallas, Texas.

(edit: I have no idea how it’d feel nowadays, and won’t visit Russia atm either.)
I don’t see how Musk could do anything but support republicans for this one particular election. The Biden administration seems to be personally going after Musk. If the executive of a country attacks you, then you support the other guy in the next election.

I have been a loyal democrat for most of my life, but when I saw President Biden giving a speech and he mentioned Musk and flat out said we should investigate this guy, I can’t express how disappointed I was.
> but the chance of you having a very bad time in Bishkek

Could you tell us more? Is the issue just that outsider's problems will be ignored so you have a higher chance of getting stuck, mugged, etc.? Or some other more specific issues?
Yes! RF is fun for hackers. Go get licensed. 73 de KQ4RLZ.
Another issue is that encryption is not allowed on amateur radio, so most internet applications are a no-go.
I think youre 100% right. Taking it further, it's legacy education because there are no effective gatekeepers to information anymore. You can learn anything you want now for free. If the goal is to learn how to do something you want to do, universities aren't worth the expense. They gatekeep credentials now, not education. I personally do not think that status quo can continue for very long.

I've talked to my oldest son, but it seems the younger generation already has figured out that the path leads nowhere. I didn't even have to explain it to him, he already knows. I think that, for those that want to take a beaten path, youre absolutely right, they need to take a year or two off and live in the world a little bit first.
> Because Americans are so good at distinguishing Slavic languages by ear in a noisy room?

There is a simpler explanation: Russian is probably the only Slavic language most Americans know about.
This would appear to be a lie.
flaccid label?
I was in Bishkek last year and I don't see the risk; what concerns would you have aside from food poisoning?

Dushanbe I agree with you, but simply because I found Tajikistan rather boring and desolate but in an unimpressive way.
I'd give it a balance if you ever wanted to try it again

- 2 calls with recruiting and whatever technical screen you want.

- Take home that is paid X amount

- follow up take home review to verify they did it

- offer.

Big issue I have with take homes is that they love to be the first step, not the middle one. you can probably weed out a lot of candidates and pay only the ones you seriously consider with this approach.

Also solves a lot of spec work issues in other industries.
The "Lost" Steve Jobs Time Capsule (2012)
I don't think basic analytics is objectionable for a government org web service. I'd hope they'd be tracking "Do people use this? What kind of devices do people consume this site on? Is the page even loading properly for most people?"

This is analytics data.

Or maybe you'd call that "mass surveillance".
Or when you encounter (another) corner case that requires a top down rewrite of your code. If you start to question your sanity or the meaning of life, you're probably on the right track.
I feel like this is a pretty common opinion among HN comments, and yet the vast majority of interviews follow the known-bad pattern instead.

Are HN commenters simply too rare to make a dent in the larger hiring landscape, or are they not walking the talk?
Can I swap place with one of them?
To really improve humanity more is needed in ethics and morality
Are undetectable levels really impossible to transmit?
Ask HN: How do you fairly split donations among an open source team?
Imagine you have an open source project that got a major sponsor. What's the best way to fairly distribute this money among the team? Should it be based on contribution levels, time spent, or something else? What models have worked well for you?
A browser for a competing format to the WWW. The WWW is now a 35 year old alternative to print magazines and print shopping catalogs.
Context for others: Neve Campbell is Canadian!
A few weeks ago I heard the following exchange.

Canadian: Is this frequency in use?

...Silence...

Canadian: Cqcqcqcqcq...

MM: THIS FREQUENCY IS RESERVED FOR MARITIME MOBILE EMERGENCY TRAFFIC!

Me: What is the nature of the emergency? Can I be of assistance?

MM: no emergency, just you know, in case there's an emergency please stay off

A cultured Canadian: kindly fuck off.

MM: hey now you can't swear on the radio FCCs gonna jumpya...

Canadian: proceeds to make several contacts over the protests of MM lid calling out FCC profanity regulation numbers.
I only see one paper linked on the channel, which is a substandard paper in a low impact journal. Beyond that, his website documenting his independent research also includes sections on the occult and psychic phenomena. What did I miss?
No, because resume fraud is very rare in sports. What is expected from an athlete is very clear. If they can't run x metres in y seconds then they are out. This is not so clear cut in software development, so yes, I don't blame management when they accidentally hire an incompetent, fraud developer.

Obviously it is a different story when management hires good developers but can't maintain a good workplace culture, apply unnecessary time pressure, don't pay them enough etc.
Tesla's California car registrations fall for third straight quarter
Eh, during the dot-com crash days I knew two people personally that left tech and became farmers. One started a big kale farm off highway 1, and was still doing it last I checked. He was a lot happier.

I learned how to skydive and rock climb while I waited to finally land something.

Downturns, techies have often turned to random different things.

Office Space had the dudes end up doing construction for a reason.

If you can afford to wait 2-3 years, then do. I already laid out what I did to get by.

Otherwise, work your network, or try to start your own thing, or any number of different things. Anything I tell you here is going to get noticed and will have a lot of competition. The harder (and often more likely to work) choices are ones you’ll need to find yourself.

Personally, I’ve been this close to starting HVAC and pest control companies, but have something outside the country I’m pursuing instead.

I’m not your mom.
It's like China, respect the local politics and it's an amazing place to travel.

Much safer than let's say France.
it's probably fairly safe until you are arrested and accused of being a spy in hope of bargaining for some sanction lifting deal with you country
thanks - is there a way to determine/monitor if excessive swapping is taking place?
This sucks. Anyone have good alternatives?
one is a table the other pretends to be a table. There has to be a lot wrong for the table to forget what it is. try disabling style.

css also gets complicated much faster than html. I like to offload complexity to less complicated areas.

a practical example: i look at each row and set rowspan for duplicate values. a series of rows might have week 22 as their first cell and multiple with monday as their second.
SoftBank Group Buys British AI Chip Company Graphcore
SolarWinds Defeats Part of SEC's Fraud Case over Hack
Seems crazy that you’d build a town so close to the mine (or a smelter so close to a town). It’s not as if Australia is short on space for building things!

Perhaps it should be a condition of operating a lucrative mining site that you build/subsidise worker’s accommodation at a reasonable enough distance to be free from contamination.
He first stated that he would "no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" in an essay in 2009, his ideology is pretty old hat now.

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
Yes, it's a shame that laptop manufacturers fail to account for the critical need of sending Morse code.
> avoiding sunk-cost thinking

The past is in the past. The half a billion matters insofar as it's given us our current playing hand. The right mentality is some combination of looking forward (we have many options, some of which were bought for half a billion, but even those might be worthless), backward looking (half a billion is probably worth having a retro over; was the outcome regrettable? If so, how can we do less of that?), and keeping non-obvious systemic effects in mind while doing both of those things (e.g., if you never finish a project, it doesn't matter if you were always working toward the "right" thing, and with that sort of thing in mind your bias toward cancelling projects should perhaps be weaker than the immediate facts might indicate).

Imagine you'd invested half a billion in Theranos. You really would have pennies on the dollar in return, and completely scrapping it (or otherwise selling it for parts) could be a logical move. The sunk cost fallacy comes in when you decide that because you've already invested you need to continue in that direction.

Your point about it being hard to wrap your head around scrapping it entirely is a little subtle. We very well might have bought something worthwhile for that half a billion. In that case though, you still want to look at the resources you _currently_ have available or expect to have in the future, not the fact that you lost a half billion (except insofar as you can use that as a learning experience to not fuck up so much in the future).
I’m sure there’s more to the story, but half a billion dollars seems like a staggeringly expensive price tag for one piece of a moon mission. What does all that money go to? What’s the ROI?

We’ve been sending rovers to other planets for decades, so I assume there’s a good base of knowledge to build on. This isn’t basic research level, it seems like it should be a lot closer to production work. Satellites go up nearly every day, so I’d guess the space-spec supply chain is healthy.

Do post-mortem documents get published on programs like this? I really can’t understand it.
or Evan Gershkovich. St Pete was a wonderful city to visit before the 2014 invasion, now I think it's too risky
I was talking about commercial activity. Flouting the rules on that would be a bad idea. We need to change the rules, not flout them.

The core idea "individual accountability and exclusionary property rights are complementary mechanisms for sharing spectrum" is probably eternal, but HAM mindshare is sill stuck in the days when building kit and studying for a license was worth it to access the glorious nerd forum in the Earth's Ionosphere, and the internet flat out replaced that. HAM could reinvent itself as an on-ramp for ambitious young'uns with big ideas to challenge stodgy incumbent telecom if it wanted to, but right now it's coasting on the social groups that were formed back when its value proposition made sense and it will stay on a downward trajectory until it fixes this.

Telecom and its problems are bigger than ever. This is HAM's key back into the land of value-prop-positive activities. If you plug a broadband antenna into a spectrum analyzer and wave it around, you see that almost all of the action is crammed into the lightly-licensed "trash containment" bands. That's interesting. We probably have the fixed vs flexible allocation wrong. Does 10% of the traffic need 90% of the spectrum? Probably not, now that technology has advanced past fixed-band dumb endpoints. We need to slowly unwind that. 6G was a good start, but the ISM rules mean that we are going to get slightly faster wifi, not some wild and wacky mesh network thing that tries to offer "internet sans video" for $5/mo or whatever.
>They are changing laws so if you’re undetectable you don’t have to disclose your HIV status to your partner(s) .. but you could transmit it if you stop taking anti virals

If you stop taking your medicine, you stop being undetectable, you start being able to transmit it, and you start having a legal responsibility to tell potential partners about it.
These are often described as vodkas in practice, even if they technically aren't. Applies to other eastern Europe products too. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B3dka_%C5%BBo%C5%82%C4%85... is fruit/herb based, but is commonly known as vodka and even was labelled as such.
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If I wasn't in bed on my phone I would disagree at length and in great detail with this.

Have you met any 7 year olds? Have you taught any beginners to do computer stuff?
> You seriously don't think anything has changed in the GOP in 20 years?

Lots has changed-but about this topic? I don’t see evidence much has changed about this one. It remains, then as now, an idea some people in the GOP support, but they are still struggling to get everyone else on board.

> And you're not arguing in bad faith?

The HN guidelines say “Assume good faith”. [0] I don’t think your suggesting I’m “arguing in bad faith” is complying with that guideline.

> He already tried appointing the AccuWeather CEO for the job last time, who mostly wanted to privatize the NWS.

We don’t know why he nominated Myers. It isn’t necessarily because he personally supports this particular policy agenda. It could simply because some advisor talked the guy up to him. That advisor might have supported the agenda in question, but might have sold the candidate to Trump on other grounds.

And the fact that the Senate never called a confirmation vote on him implies that GOP Senators weren’t happy with the nomination behind the scenes. Which is evidence against your narrative that the GOP is 100% behind this agenda.

Furthermore, even if Myers had been confirmed, the NOAA Administrator doesn’t have the power to defund or abolish or privatize his own agency - only Congress can do that. So even if they’d won the battle to install Myers, it might not have actually done much to advance that policy agenda.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The regulations were designed by the car manufacturers.
For me synology works well. I purchased nice and somehow cheap reolink cameras and cut internet access for them.
We can spend $300M dollars to grade-separate one intersection between a road and a train.
> I still don't get how Java records can be used for anything like a DTO

In Clojure, we often deserialize a result set from a database to a vector of maps. These maps have different keys depending on what exactly your query was selecting. In Java, one often "projects" results to some DTO. This is one scenario where records offer identical functionality while avoiding boilerplate.

Regarding "place-oriented programming", records are immutable, so that is one technical advantage they have over handwriting a DTO. And from my short experience using web frameworks like Quarkus, it seems that a lot of the "design patterns" I see in documentation exist to help design easy-to-test programs rather than unfettered mutation.

Additionally, I have found records useful for describing the payload of endpoints that accept map-like data. Without records, I would be writing POJOs with public fields anyway.

Overall, Java records behave like TypeScript interfaces with awkward syntax. I have found them ideal for expressing type-safe, map-like data with minimal boilerplate.
I guess most people reading this already knew that the term 'tracking pixel' has evolved beyond its original meaning, and is now commonly understood to include all sorts of tracking code.

I did not, but now I know :)

(And although serverless doesn't mean 'no server', we know what the word means and it doesn't cause confusion.)
It would be slighly more useful to have something that uses the microphone to detect when you physicially tap the laptop e.g. with your finger, it could be used to keep typing even with your laptop screen down, imagine a spy movie where the baddies close your laptop and put a gun against your head and you have to put your hands in the air, but you use your knee under the table to tap type "shred -vzn 0 /dev/xxx", poof, all data gone.
You don't need to remove the post (and generally, posts don't get removed other than in exceptional circumstances). Moderators will probably take out the 'Show HN' prefix but either way, people mispost stuff all the time, it mostly works out fine and isn't a big deal.
One of the great things about open source small models such as llama3 is that you can fine-tune them with your own data and run them on your own hardware. I am so excited to see these models continue to improve and am uninterested in this new model from "Open"AI, which is presumably increasingly feeling the heat of competition from all sides.
How does a decentralized prize-giving fellowship in any way resemble a dedicated research facility like Bell Labs or Xerox PARC?
Anything will phone home eventually if connected to internet. Home cameras should not be connected to internet regardless if they use wifi or wire.
Analyzing the Parallels Between Trump and Kennedy Assassination Attempts
As a member of a marginalized minority group myself, I'd like to think that the answer to this question would be obvious..
OpenCV and the Wild Kingdom
I walked in psychedellics a bit fucked, though id been doing the work to get better. I was simply at an impasse with no way forward. For me, psychedellics shook things up in a way that allowed for a level of introspection and wrangling of the self the allowed for meaningful change. For example, i went from hopeless alcoholic with little to no positive outlook in life to having a healthy relationship with alcohol (and other substances) meaning general abstainence but socially acceptable levels of partaking where appropriate.

This is of course not everyones story, many i know who took similar substances ended up in much worse positions.Some had even been doing the work to get better also. For the time being I think theres an element of luck, but i hope we figure out how to remove the luck component and make it a science.

The way I'd explain it Is that whatever loss function the mind uses to optimize the personality was stuck in a poor local optima and psychedellics knocked that marble right loose. There was a time i was a bit 'lost' in it all but i was able to get back on track in a reasonable timeframe and through the change in perspectove and way of thinking kept improving well past were id gotten to prior to that.

Despite what positive things i have to say about it, i wouldnt recommend it, unless it truly is your last option. i spent years with psychologists and paychiatrists prior to that. Ive seen many go down the path of the illicit and not get better but much much worse, and more that went down professional help based pathways who got better more consistently, and got worse far more rarely.
Insurers Warn Standardizing Cyber Policies Could Limit Future Coverage
>If you smash the hell out of a take-home project you won't need to do any more interviews. Companies that rely on take-homes usually are the same ones that don't make you go through Leetcode/trivia gauntlets.

First job me believed that. Current job me has done 2 take homes that only lead to ghosts. then 1 more that lead to failing a leetcode style interview. Never again.

and I have plenty of personal projects outside of work, I don't need more pet projects like the one comment up stream.
In my former life, I used to maintain a script that can be given two sets of objects files, one compiled with optimization, and one without, and the script will effectively do a binary search by choosing which object files you link and run the executable to determine success/fail. Each iteration is quick, since linking step is usually fast. This was useful when troubleshooting a big binary, since optimized build back then was often quite slow for a large executable.
Actually, here are the full details:

- "The Declaratory Ruling limits the use of AI-generated voices in robocalls, but it does not impose a total ban, as some headlines have suggested. Instead, it clarifies that callers who choose to employ AI-generated voices must comply with existing TCPA regulations."

- "The TCPA does not ban robocalls to residential phone lines (i.e., home landlines), even without consent from the called party as long as (1) the calls are not made for a commercial purpose..."

Sources:

1.) https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-17A1.pdf (official FCC declatory ruling)

2.) https://www.elias.law/newsroom/client-alerts/the-fcc-did-not...

3.) https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3a809d28-60f5...

TLDR:
AI phone calls are fine as long as you are not selling something.

The FCC ruling primarily impacts companies that employ telemarketing. Mitra is just a connective layer between you and other people.

We do not vouch for businesses to use Mitra to sell goods or services to others unless they have express written consent from those they reach out to.
What do they "govern"? They distribute junk for advertisers. That's the majority of their existence. Can you imagine their carbon footprint? Driving to almost every US address 6 days a week to leave junk mail that 99% of goes straight to the trash. But I'm supposed to drive an EV or take the bus???
> gate keeping the spectrum through repeater systems that you need to pay to be a member of or else you might get a stern finger wagging.

Is this enforced by the HAMs? I didn't think it'd be possible to claim ownership of a slice of the amateur spectrum. Is it just a public shaming?
Also, from the practical side you don't want to accidentally find the leftover mines.
Are there any government sites that are doing this right?
Oh God. Another "protect women" at all cost BS article.

These use tragic single incident examples to legitimize laws that are then used to prosecute men in divorce.

Google "Silver Bullet Divorce Strategy"

Go kick rocks NYTimes.
https://mangadex.org/manga/dd8a907a-3850-4f95-ba03-ba201a839...