skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Numeric | Software engineer (3+ YOE) | ONSITE in San Francisco, CA | https://www.numeric.io

We're building the platform to automate accounting and tackle the underlying data issues which plague accounting and finance departments. Customers like Plaid, Brex, Wealthfront, AngelList, Mercury, and more depend on Numeric to automate their work, to collaborate, and to monitor, analyze, and share insights on their financial data. We've raised $10M to date from excellent investors like Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, and more.

We're a product-first company with technical founders and an engineering team whose past experiences include Brex, Segment, Carta, and more. This will be a fit if you're excited to understand your users and the domain, as well as to have substantial responsibility and impact. We work in person in our SF & NYC offices, and prioritize speed and ownership (both technical and product ownership). We're growing rapidly, we're well-funded, and building out our team to continue investing in ambitious product goals.

Product-oriented engineers appreciated, bonus points for startup experience and/or full-stack experience with Typescript. >=3 YOE.

Apply: Email andrew@numeric.io (mention hackernews in subject)
Have they lost any of those lawsuits?
Location: Mexico City

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rails, React, Redshift, Postgres, CSS, Tailwind

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremygeros/ or
https://jeremygeros.com

Email: jeremy453[dot]gmail[dot]com

I'm Jeremy, I am looking for senior level engineering roles. I have worked in startups for the past 16 years and with mostly Rails in that time, but I have worked with many technologies and done many jobs as apart of being in a small startup ie. server management, analytics, redshift, tech support. I am a full stack developer and can code and finish features from start to shipped to customer and manage the resulting support. Open to most techs, I learn things quickly and would work best in a team that moves fast.
I guess a lot of people would be uncomfortable with this. But I’d just tell them I don’t give a shit if people see something I didn’t expect them to see.
Congrats on launching. WebGL is really hard, I built a similar engine and it's tougher than it seems.

Your budget is only 8.33ms if you target 120hz too btw :) And realistically less because you don't get all of it.
Layman trying to wrap my head around this: the Higgs field causes other fields to stiffen by giving them a resonant frequency, with higher frequencies meaning more mass.
That approach would still leave you weak to always picking 1 or 100.
Without proof, I believe the optimal guessing strategy would perform equal (on average) for every number, to not give the opponent any standout choice (common for optimal strategies, but not always the case). If my math serves me right, that would be an average of log2(100) = 6.64 guesses for any number, which would make you lose 0.64$ on average.
If an ad actually informs me about products (which is very rare), and doesn't involve spying on me (even more rare), that could be useful.

> If ads were used as a form of subsidizing (whether partially or fully) the cost of vital services or utilities, would you tolerate them?

No, not even a little. A good ad is one that serves my needs. Advertising that only "benefits" me by subsidizing something else is just shifting the currency that I'm paying with, not reducing the price.
I rarely root for EU’s heavy handed approach to tech regulation. But in this case, I am willing to pick up Pom-poms and cheer for them as loud as I am capable of

“Go eu go. Bankrupt those bastards and jail them all. Go eu go. Give it to them hard”
If qualia itself is the actual waves themselves, then that [arguably] disproves the "Substrate Independence" view, which is that consciousness is a set of computations. You can build logic gates out of dominoes or even physical abacuses, but if qualia is made of waves no amount of "simulating it" via calculations is going to truly conjure it into existence.
Is the landfill actually 'in' the city, or in a rural area outside the city limits?

I had a similar interview years ago - something like "how many windows are there on houses in our town?". Wasn't quite that, but I asked up front if "houses" meant just physical standalone houses, or if they meant living spaces, including apartments/dorms, etc. I got clarification, gave some estimate with some reasoning, and was then told I was the only person of the 8 they'd interviewed that had asked any clarifying question at all, which apparently impressed them enough to make an offer.
I'm sure there's a systematic solution to that.

If that's the problem, maybe require a $10 submission fee on each writing (or enough to pay for a basic sanity on writing quality). You can even optionally refund it for cases of obvious merit.
It is the type of thing nobody thinks about though. Sure it is easy to figure out where I live (though odds are good you will get a previous address), but most people never attempt to do that and so don't realize how easy it is. It seems like if you know where I live you just have gone through a lot of effort. I have no doubt someone could break into my house and install hidden cameras without leaving a trace, but it would be a lot of effort, and it seems like the hardest part is finding my house.
SSD relatively recently were not so big (compare to HDD with comparable price) and space is an issue on not so new desktops. I don't want to upgrade a notebook only because someone thinks that disk space is not an issue.

But of course this much more of an issue for embedded platforms like routers with OpenWRT.
?? I use Firefox on my Mac, and I use Safari on my iPhone. My point was just that Firefox does integrate with Apple's passkeys.
I've always suspected the powerful macro facilities in Lisp are why it's never been very common - the ability to do proper macros means all the very smart programmers create code that has to be read like a maths paper. It's too bespoke to the problem domain and too tempting to make it short rather than understandable.

I like Rust (tho I have not yet programmed in it) but I think if people get too into macro generated code, there is a risk there to its uptake.

It's hard for smart programmers to really believe this, but the old "if you write your code as cleverly as possible, you will not be able to debug it" is a useful warning.
You can have at-least-once-or-fail though. Just send a message and require an ack. If the ack doesn’t come after a timeout, try n more times, then report an error, crash, or whatever.
TLDR:

NaNoWriMo is now sponsored by an AI company, and markets AI writing assistance tools, so they published a blog post to defend this apparent contradiction with their primary goal (i.e., humans writing a novel in 1 month from start to finish).

Their nonsensical arguments have resulted in multiple board members leaving, along with blowblack from disabled and poor writers who are insulted that NaNoWriMo justified their marketing of AI tools with the claim that disabled writers and poor need AI to write well.
> the oldest languages on the planet, as spoken by the oldest people

Begging your pardon, this is a nonsensical thing to say. One people are not older than another, and nor are their languages.

As it happens, the Khoisan show greater genetic divergence from the rest of the human race, indicating that as a population they have been relatively more isolated, for longer. This does not in any sense imply that they are in some way basal, such that it would be intelligible to call them older than other branches of the family tree.

This same objection applies to characterizing their languages in that way, we have no way of knowing if their languages are less or more prone to mutation than any other. We have rather less to work with, in fact, as the absence of literacy in their societies until modern times leaves us with no evidence at all. But it would be astonishing if their languages had no drift to them, and even "less drift" is a major and unsupportable claim, and these are the only ways in which it would be intelligible to say that those languages are older than another.
Tesla | Various Roles | Palo Alto | ONSITE | https://www.tesla.com/careers Tesla is hiring for software positions across a variety of disciplines. If you're interested in helping us transition to sustainable energy production/storage/consumption, we'd love to hear from you! Please apply online at https://www.tesla.com/careers and send us a email highlighting some exceptional things you've done in the past so we can pull your resume from the stack. You can reach us at vmanalo at tesla. Make sure to reference the url for the job(s) you've applied to!

Full-time
https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/job/software-validation... (High Voltage systems, test development, C, Python) Location: Palo Alto, CA

https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/job/software-integratio... (embedded software, powertrain systems, systems design and test) Location: Palo Alto, CA

https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/job/embedded-system-sof... (embedded, C, power electronics) Location: Palo Alto, CA

https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/job/steering-systems-in... (firmware, integration, steering) Location: Palo Alto, CA
>It seems convincing if you don’t just how many email and street address pairs are effectively public

I don't think it's that convincing even if you're unaware of that fact because if someone tries to "sextort" you, if they've indeed owned you, why wouldn't they just send you a piece of that footage? I'd assume anything else is by default a bluff even if I knew nothing about tech
Do you have any pages on your website that go into more detail about what you do? I may be interested in the senior position, but all I can see is a placeholder.
What's So Big about Small Language Models?
Sanctuary Computer/ XXIX | NYC OR REMOTE, VISA | Director of Project Management

At Sanctuary Computer and XXIX we’re building a different type of design technology shop – one that prioritizes close collaboration between the client and the craftsperson. Our projects range from design-forward websites, to robust web apps, to native mobile development. We’re building a radically different kind of organization that values autonomy, growth, transparency, and shared responsibility.

As the Director of Project Management, you’ll be responsible for supporting a team of highly autonomous, communicative craftspeople as they learn to navigate client relationships and Project Management. You’ll collaborate closely with our Creative Director and Technical Director, who will be responsible for the creative and technical work quality being produced by our teams.

Based on the responsibilities of this role, we think the right candidate will be a decade or so into their career and will have the following experience or skills:

Must have:

- At least 5 years of experience managing end-to-end (design and development) projects in a Project Manager capacity
- Experience managing projects in a client services environment (i.e., a consultancy, agency, or studio) in a client-facing role
- Experience managing web design, web app, and/or native mobile projects with budgets exceeding $200k
- Experience coaching others in project management (e.g., PM manager, course instructor)
- Experience leading resourcing and staffing decisions for teams of 10+ people
- Located between Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8) and Central European Time (UTC+2)

If this sounds like you, check out the full job posting with detailed information on the role, the studio, and the compensation program:

https://garden3d.notion.site/Director-of-Project-Management-...
Imagining an `installation` in my space, using both my MT-80S and a display. Can I even reason about this, the timing? I'm not smart here, just interested

https://www.matrixsynth.com/2014/07/roland-mt-80s-midi-playe...
Synergy core (aka synergy 1) just had Wayland support merged this week. “Next year” has finally come to pass
The missing guide to the H100 GPU market
Meta, Apple, Google, Amazon, ByteDance, Microsoft non-compliance with the DMA
Sunlight is produced through nuclear reactions in the sun's core. Once a photon of light is born, it takes between 10,000 and 170,000 years to reach the surface and escape into space.
Maybe lucky, but haven’t had trouble with Linux and sleep for about 15 years. Dell and Framework.
> if you perform a character edit format instruction in EBCDIC mode with the leading zero specifier and the numeric value is too great to fit into the allocated field, after the instruction completes, what is the state of the program status word overflow field?

"Is the computer operating on American electricity, or European?"
Every time I see an article with a criminal getting sentenced or a local administrator gets accused of wrongdoing I look up whether they had a PPP loan and 9/10 they do. Its a pretty fun game, if a little depressing: https://www.pandemicoversight.gov/ppp-simple-search-landing
Difference b/w partnering with OpenAI/Anthropic vs. an application layer company
Say a company (eg Delta Air Lines) wants to use genAI for their customer service. OpenAI/Anthropic (and maybe Gemini too) can help with this and partner directly with Delta and call them a customer. But there are also specific companies (i.e., application layer companies) that use OpenAI's and/or Anthropic's LLM to build a product that uses genAI for customer service. Examples are Decagon, Sierra, Cresta, MavenAGI, etc.
The same applies for other use cases beyond customer service too: legal tech, enterprise search, etc.
Why would Delta partner with an application layer company vs. the LLM themselves?
> You don't seem to see a lot of things.

I don't recall mentioning anything else. What your basis for making this claim?

> Tipping reduces the tip receiver to a prostitute.

At the end of the day, a prostitute is also a service provider engaged in a fee-for-service transaction. Scrape away the emotion-laden woo-woo here, and I don't see that there's anything much of a substantive argument -- it seems completely proper for a portion of a service provider's compensation to come directly from the party who the service is being provided to, regardless of whether there's some other middleman in the transaction.

You're trying to project your own prejudices onto others here, but I doubt the people who are happy to make higher income via tips than they otherwise would are going to agree with you.
Pregnancy after Tubal Sterilization in the United States, 2002 to 2015
What do working Americans fear more than death? Retirement
“Happy” here is hard to quantify - it’s a market. I’ve been to many of these conventions (DragonCon and NYCC for 15+ years) and while people certainly complain about the autograph & ticket prices, the lines snake around the block. The hotels are full. People brag and post on social about every celebrity interaction. I’ve made lifelong friends at these conventions and while I don’t personally stand in line for the latest Marvel stars, many of my friends do. It feels like a healthy market for parasocial relationships in which harm and deception are minimal. You know exactly what you’re getting for $80 and a few hours in line to see whoever is playing Spider-Man this year.
This is not a practice you want to normalize.
Terminator Zero Just Borrowed an Idea from the Saga's Worst Movie
It's lazy but they only need it to work on a few people via shotgun approach of spam.
Although upon further thinking, you could then sprinkle in some binomial searches to abuse the uniformity. So the -0.64$ is merely a lower bound.
Yubikey Security Advisory YSA-2024-03 Infineon Ecdsa Private Key Recovery
That was Dell iDRAC boards had a bug, where while they asked for a password, they would accept ANY password.

IPMI is like typical IoT, a rarely updated full system with often questionable code quality.

Private VLANs and separate interfaces on dedicated ports is not out of line.

Often shared interfaces with vlan isolation depends on the IPMI honoring that isolation.

By Private VLANs I am talking about RFC 5517 style, a switch level feature where IPMI cannot reach other IPMI interfaces.
An actual bank account.

1. Get a +86 phone number at any China Mobile. You only need your passport and some initial (e.g. 100RMB) cash

2. I opened a bona fide ICBC account at one of the ICBC branches in Shanghai with that +86 phone number, passport with 10-year tourist L visa, 100RMB initial deposit cash, and using my hotel address.

Note that not all branch tellers know HOW to open an account with a foreign passport. Go to one of the larger branches, not the hole-in-the-wall ones. If one branch refuses you the account on grounds of a tourist visa, try another branch. It's not illegal, just not every worker knows the rules. Their electronic system is most definitely able to handle it. I was able to open the account at the 2nd branch I hit up.

They did not ask for proof of address, proof of work, or residence permit. I just told them I frequently visit China for business and may relocate in the future for work (true at the time, I was there frequently for my startup), and the dude was cool with that.

I was able to link that ICBC account to AliPay and WeChat and use everything normally, including flight, train, and hotel bookings. Access to day-to-day mobile payments was the main reason I created the account.

This was 2016, by the way, I don't know if anything has changed, but my account still works fine.

Caveats:

- Your +86 phone number will not work outside China and you cannot enable global roaming until you have had the number for 6+ months according to what I was told. So before you leave China, switch it to the cheapest phone plan and load the account with prepaid cash so that the phone number doesn't expire and disappear. If it disappears, your bank account's electronic UI may also become inaccessible (due to the stupid SMS verification) until you go back in-person to the branch and show them your ID and get it re-linked to a new phone number.

- After your passport expires, all bank transactions including WeChat/AliPay transactions will also fail. You will need to go in-person to a branch with your new passport to get that updated.
So you're saying you think the lives of people who are not "functioning members of society" are not meaningful? I guess I need to ask you to define your terms then, because I disagree based on what I'd define "meaningful" and "functioning member of society" to mean in this context.
I think the article can be summed up by this gem:

"All this is ultimately encouraging conspiracy theories, which could undermine trust in democratic institutions. There have been humorous calls to storm Area 51. And after the storming of the Capitol in 2021, this now looks like an increasingly dangerous possibility."

Ah yes, "storming the Capitol"
Why not? Sends a strong message; and also forces employees to think about what they are doing instead of passing the buck.

This is also not like some stupid patent dispute or DMA compliance argument. These employees are directly responsible for stockpiling personal identities of millions of people for the express purposes of making the surveillance efforts of their government easier. That's a very political action, which is directly aggressive against a country's citizens, and they should feel that.
You both call the same tomato ripe. But if you were to switch eyes maybe you would be shocked that what the other person called a ripe tomato was actually your green
some of your blue are actually azure to me
That depends on the exact type of forest. The PNW is very wet so fire don’t clear the underbrush but in the South West, that growth only has a few decades to build up before its burned away.
> don’t really appreciate how beautiful it really is.

Pretty broad statement to make about a country of 300+ million people.

Especially in a thread of people appreciating it.
https://archive.is/P7LIu
Donald Trump Interview – Lex Fridman Podcast #442 [video]
Can't the government already do the same using images from identity cards, passports, etc.? Is the problem mainly because it's a private company doing it? I genuinely want to better understand this issue.
That's a very plausible theory
I don't think you have to put your random offset all in the first guess either. Maybe you could random offset +/- 7 on the first guess, +/- 3 or 4 on the next, something like that.
African or European. Everyone knows that.
The Bitcoin sextortion scammers get told that they are in possession of copyrighted content from my OnlyFans* and a DMCA cease-and-desist warning.

Checkmate, con artists.

(* no this does not exist)
I am immensely curious to know about the finances & accounting of these businesses. None of the examples made sense to me about how they have enough to keep the lights on. Please someone eli5 me.

May be American things are too different to me to imagine correctly.
They would have needed to start their business in 2019 to execute this particular fraud in 2021. If you have a time machine, I can suggest of a few other, more profitable ways to make money.
To Sell Is Human (book)

When you convince your kids to brush their teeth, that is manipulation. How many times have you used deception with them to get them to do something?

Ads can be for public benefit, like the anti-smoking and drunk driving ads
If Crowdstrike is an example, then that's not true. Instead, success is not gated by rule quality, and you can get to global scale without a signal as to whether your rules are actually good or effective. And then someone publishes a new template and boom, Delta grounds their planes for days.
It’s part of the shambolic world of Unix and C. But “worse is better!”

A good language spec is laid out in a way that reads from front to back with minimized circularity. See Common Lisp, Java, Python, etc.

As a kid in high school checking out Unix manuals and implementing many Unix tools in

https://subethasoftware.com/2022/09/27/exploring-1984-os-9-o...

I struggled with K&R because of the circularity of the book, which was really an anomaly built into C, the culture of C, or both because C++ books still read this way. C had so many half-baked things, such as an otherwise clean parser that required access to the symbol table. And of course a general fast and looseness which lead to the buffer overflow problem.

There were other languages which failed to solve the systems programming problem like PL/I and Ada, not to mention ISO Pascal which could have tried but didn’t. (Turbo Pascal proved it could have been done.)

People took until 1990 or so to be able to write good language specs consistently, so we can forgive Unix but boy is it awful if you look closely at it. On the other hand, IBM never did make a universal OS for the “universal” 360, yet Unix proved to be adaptable for almost everything.
alternatively putting the color in a white box should provide enough context
I would argue a web designer might not even need 30fps.
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 202
A seemingly nonsense statement as a headline, a limited preview that doesn't address the nonsense statement, and "sign in to read".

Using the archive link provided in these comments shows that the rest is just "the MacBook Air is just too good why would you buy the Pro" as if that's a problem. The MacBook Air is the right computer for a lot more people than the MacBook Pro and that's been the case for years. There's no there there, as they say.
This is why successful organizations shadow interviews.
Depending on where you live you could get into trouble. It might be legal (in some countries it is now) to take nude pictures of yourself and share them with adults, but it is still immoral to some people. Your community can make life difficult.

Note that it isn't just your current community. Something you did 40 years ago can haunt you. If there is any possibility you will run for political office. Community morals change over time, what was once normal can become illegal (sexual harassment rules have changed a lot since 1970)