skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most jobs I've had, I got by cold applying to a website. In a few cases recruiters reached out to me by email/LinkedIn (this is also fairly unreliable). The approach you're describing is definitely higher yield and you absolutely should cultivate and use a network, but all is not lost without a referral.

In answer to the overall question, I think most places leave a job posting up for a few days/week at least just as standard practice. Within that window I don't think it matters.
> Software is good enough

I beg to differ. Software won’t be good enough until a normal person just tells it what to do and it does what the human asked. 95% of people are completely unable to use software beyond checking email or watching YouTube or playing a game. That’s not “good”. “Good” would be to tell iMovie “make this look more like The Matrix”, or telling Expedia “book a full trip to Shanghai, with non-stop flights and hotels near such and such”. You get the idea. Let me do more, free me up so I could stop wasting time on bullshit. That’d be “good”. What we have now is mostly laughable.
You need some sort of relativity to explain the Michelson–Morley result.
For the amount of money involved, and all joking aside, you can have my first and last name. You can name a horrible flesh eating disease after me. It doesn't matter.

I get the feeling the family doesn't care while they lounge around on their stacks of cash?
Nation states will always win against a corporation. They are authorized to use force, both physical and economical. They also control access to their market.
I only checked a few before determining that all were easy to find if you looked at the report. With that said I think your list is close to correct but there is more than one incorrect.

You have to use the supplemental appendix from the paper [0] to figure it out. There are 23 samples, some of which come from the different treatment plants in the same city so that there are 10 cities represented.

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2405937

The West Texas city (4 samples) is undoubtedly El Paso.

One of the North Texas cities is Wichita Falls.

I believe the other North Texas city is Lubbock.

There are four East Texas cities.

There is one Central Texas city. Three samples were taken and based on reported population served at the sample sites the city will either be Austin or San Antonio.

There are two South Texas cities.

So my list is

Wichita Falls - North Texas
Lubbock - North Texas

Both have excellent exposure to agricultural operations and lie along migratory bird flight paths.

El Paso - West Texas

This is the only city in West Texas large enough to have a wastewater treatment operation to serve the reported population numbers and it is also in an area with excellent exposure to agricultural operations.

Austin/San Antonio - Central Texas

This is a toss-up between these two since it could be either based on the population size reported for the wastewater treatment site and it is probably Austin based on designation as Central Texas city.

If San Antonio is considered a South Texas city then it will be one of the two South Texas sample locations. It makes sense for San Antonio and Austin to both be tested so it is likely that this paper places San Antonio in South Texas. I always considered it Central Texas (where I grew up) since it was just a short ride down I-35 and Laredo felt a lot more like South Texas. I'm probably wrong and it is indeed a South Texas city.

It's hard to guess the East Texas cities without digging into demographics and GIS data.

I suspect that Houston counts as East Texas though I always break things down differently since I lived there for a while. I consider it to be Rectal Texas. Just kidding, maybe.

It is likely that one of the East Texas cities sampled is Tyler since it is smack-dab in the middle of poultry country. Houston, classed as an East Texas city would be another. The other two could be suburbs of Houston or smaller towns in deep East Texas where there are a lot of cattle and chickens raised.
I just don't see the need for sites like this, given that Iconify exists: https://icon-sets.iconify.design

They probably have >90% of all the logos contained on simpleicons, along with nearly any other icon you could ever want or need.
Oh, I had that very model and it very quickly got moldy in places that I couldn’t easily clean. Absolutely wouldn’t recommend it…
But no one can or needs to use a residential proxy for automating CRM data entry.
The best book I've found on this subject is Moral Mazes.

It's from about halfway through the process you describe. If you don't have time to read the whole thing, look for the section on "milking the plant"
Retirement Ages by Country
I thought of creating something similar and I was going to use a personal fork of the Go compiler with some mods, anko (which is a really cool go binding language) or righting my own DSL. It's quite the undertaking.

I like Nix and NixOS a lot, its really cool, but it has some really odd management issues and the language IMO is horrendous. I used NixOS for around a year and I was changing my Nixpkgs version and I got that same generic nonsense error that doesn't have any semantic meaning and I was just over it. I'm not too fond of commenting out random parts of code to figure out where something minor and obscure failed. Sometimes it tells you the module it had a problem with, or will point out an out of place comma, and other times its just like "idk bruh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "failed at builtin 'seq'" is the best I can do"

the paradigm is a million dollar idea though. I have no doubt its the future of a large portion of the future, both for programming and generic systems. I just wish it wasn't a pain to write and it had some sensible error handling.
I learned early not to fight my insomnia. I was always more tired if I tried to sleep instead of doing something else.

What works for me is reading low stakes fiction. Smutty fairy fantasy novels and things like that. They require zero real thought, and are relaxing enough to not stress my mind. Combine that with a massive bean bag chair full of latex rounds instead of regular stuffing.

Also, I've noticed a difference at my employer from your experience. The people who stay late (but also come in late) are promoted, whereas the early risers like myself are chastised for leaving early.

I'm still tired seasonally when the insomnia really flares up, but I'm not the walking dead anymore. And no psychotic breaks for a decade.
TV writer crafted her most powerful narrative yet–in the form of board game
More generally, a MAC. You don't necessarily need one based on a hash.

(Unrelated) see also the more recent https://www.latacora.com/blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right...
I absolutely did this as well, though for the most part you could hardly call them "solvers", just tools to help me more effectively check a stack of educated guesses. IIRC a lot of the problems could be bounded well enough to brute force on my TI-83+.
It's a bit of both. Generally the idea holds. The example isn't that bad either. O(100k-1M) people have dealer-fraud related problems every year in the US, usually without happy outcomes. A few ways this might happen relating to my use of the word "lemon" include:

1. Colloquial use of "lemon" differs from the legal definition. In the given example, this might include a 15yr old vehicle (far outside any normal "manufacturer's" warranty) with numerous defects both known to the dealer and lied about to the consumer. The dealer would likely lose any civil complaint, but in Texas, and most states, this doesn't count as a "lemon." You're protected, if at all, by the fact that the salesperson warranted a thing, and perhaps any actual written "warranty" (really insurance, not that it necessarily matters) the dealer might have sold you. You usually waive the warrant of merchantability, so the fact that the car is a dud isn't enough by itself for you to have any damages (all state-specific, consult a lawyer in your jurisdiction).

2. Picking on Texas, since you brought it up, if you only bring the car in 3 times for a major defect covered under the lemon law, it's not a lemon yet. If the dealer refuses to deal with you on the 3rd instance then you'll have to sue with some other justification.

3. In the vast majority of states, you don't have an automated (minus filing fees) hearing process pertaining to lemons. Even in those which do, you're much more likely to succeed with the help of an attorney. In either case, in most states, attorney's fees are not part of the damages you can claim, and when squabbling about a $5k used car it can easily cost more in attorney fees (plus incidentals like renting a car and missing work for the actual hearings -- usually not covered even in states granting damages for incidentals (including rentals and missing work in other contexts) arising from the lemon), often making it not even worth pursuing.

...

Usually, even with moderate legal protections, you don't want to enter into an agreement where you expect to have to rely on those protections. Your best-case scenario is that you waste a bunch of time and still have only as many resources as you started with. You'll usually do even worse. Why take a losing gamble?
India Backs Small Nuclear Reactors to Power Heavy Industry
True, your social security number would make more sense as the primary key.
This meme has got to go: there is little if any evidence to suggest that markets are functioning either in the specific case of housing in high COL areas in the United States or frankly most times anyone trots out the Milton Friedman trope on HN.

Markets fail, they get captured, they get distorted by accounting treatments, they generate cartels. They get technologically disrupted by new forms of cartel pricing that blow past existing regulations(e.g. TFA).

Capitalism sounds dope, I hope I live to see it. But the idea that supply and demand in the Econ 101 formulation is anything to do with the lot of say a person renting a flat in 2024 is silly and borders on insulting.
My absurd pet theory is that this was related to their 2017-2020 dispute with Imagination. Apple started (allegedly) violating Imagination's IP in 2017. They were, at the very least, threatened with a lawsuit, and the threats were compelling enough that they've been paying up since 2020. It could be Apple pulled out of the Khronos IP pool to prepare a lawsuit, or to have better chances of dodging one.
Yeah, I’m referring to Google Maps satellite imagery, not the super-saturated and detailed urban area coverage. I mean, check out the satellite view here [1]. It’s not perfect, but you can make out building-sized objects and cars just as well as you can in the Trump image.

[1]: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Fic93Bhf8X8CA5De6
Jordan Peterson versus Higher Ed
Thank you, this makes the frustration in the above quote more understandable. For anyone wanting to avoid the x click:

> Worth stressing this was reported to Apple before the GA was released (by multiple people, to multiple teams/orgs within Apple) so Apple 100% knew about this, and shipped macOS 15 anyways
Cloudflare already isolated X on their network so that Brazil can block just X again.
"Censoring" literal misinformation is a bad thing now?
No.

But if you want "secure by default" then neither one is acceptable.
This looks great. There have certainly been times in my life where all I had was my phone, and I needed to check on a few things. I could see having an app like this handy "just in case" (assuming secure connectivity, of course). Good luck!
Yeah, that's a better idea. Use a signal relay rated for the surge, and just have it off usually.
> The second option's cost to landlords is largely defined by accounting/tax rules

The cost is having empty properties, which require insurance, maintenance costs, property taxes, likely mortgages of their own to pay, all of which cost money and which are by far the biggest costs to letting things sit unused.

And the fact in this case is there simply isn’t all these mythical properties sitting unused; simply look at current housing and rental stats.
Has it ever not ended up being relevant? Like, I would agree that it is kind of redundant--and thereby maybe doesn't need to be said--but if there are people who actually think "maybe this time will be different", arguably the comment should be pinned to the top of the thread as a reminder?
I am getting the "Your request was flagged as potentially violating our usage policy. Please try again with a different prompt." for a custom Golang RAG workflow that has nothing to do with OpenAI. I can send the same exact prompt to GPT-4 and it will happily respond. But if I send it to GPT-o1-mini, I always get the violation warning.

What is going on?!
> It's also super simple: It's almost literally just concatenating the secret and the message you want to authenticate together, and take an ordinary hash (like SHA256) of that, the rest of it is just to deal with padding.

It's not quite as simple as that. The output of the first hash is hashed a second time (to prevent length extension attacks).
Interestingly, whenever I touch my touchpad, the worst case latency shoots up 20x, even with RT patch. What could be causing this?
And this is always on core 5.
EU as usual are still copyright maximalists as long as the rights holders are European. Can’t wait for European diplomats to approve the latest compression format!
Thoughts on the New iOS Control Centre
You do realize that the "censorship" being mentioned is of literal terrorists?

Terrorism: the use of violence to achieve political aims (if you are not yourself a recognized nation).

This is exactly what these people did in their coup attempt. I for one would rather not have another coup organized on Twitter, thank you very much.

(and before anyone brings it up - even if someone works for the PR or leadership arms of a terrorist organization, rather than actually performing the violence personally, that does not mean they stop being a terrorist)
Political censorship is unconstitutional in Brazil. These judges are after Bolsonaro and his supporters for the political speech they engaged in. Blatant political censorship.

The constitution literally contains the words:

> Any and all censorship of political and artistic nature is prohibited

It's really not that hard to understand. Any citizen can understand this. It's just that it doesn't matter what the law says. Because there's no court above them, the law becomes whatever they say it is.
Interestingly I recently had to run a script I wrote for 3.11 on an old system that has 3.6, and the only thing I had to remove were a few type hints (which of course don't affect function). Seems pretty backwards compatible to me.
The entire album New Skin for the Old Ceremony is worth a listen. It contains many of his “hits” and is approachable for a modern audience.
There's an argument to be made that lying to the public is not political speech.

Relevant analysis: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/framing-disinf...
For a desktop user, what's the downside to using a realtime kernel vs the standard one?
You’re misunderstanding who’s the “fascist” here. It’s not Musk. We get it, you don’t like his tweets or success, but he’s right in this case.
Thank you, Andy! This is Jeff, CEO and Chief Architect of EloqData. It's a great honor for us to have THE Andy Pavlo join the discussion on our first HN submission.

If I remember correctly, NuoDB uses a shared cache with a cache coherence protocol, whereas EloqKV uses a shared nothing (partitioned) cache. The former is a local read but needs to broadcast each write to all nodes. The latter has no broadcast for writes but may be a remote read. The tradeoff is evident and we are actively exploring opportunities to strike a balance, e.g., for frequently-read, rarely-write data items, use the shared cache mode.

We appreciate you pointing us to the CIDR paper. I had the pleasure of working with Phil for some time and fondly remember many discussions with Phil on various topics many years ago. To address your question, yes, we've been trying to solve the research challenges presented in the CIDR paper. The devil is in the details. We've developed numerous new algorithms and invested significant engineering effort into the design and implementation of our products. The benefits are as follows:

- Optimality: We believe we have an overall design that optimizes synchronous disk writes and network round-trips. For instance, when the design is reduced to a single node, its performance matches or exceeds that of single-node servers. As you might expect, a lot of innovation has gone into making distributed transactions as efficient as non-distributed ones, comparable to those in MySQL or PostgreSQL.

- Modularity: Our architecture allows us to easily replace the Parser/Compute layer and Storage/Persistence layer with the best existing solutions. This means we can create new databases by leveraging existing parsers and compute engines from current database implementations to achieve API-compatibility, as well as leveraging existing high-performance KV stores for the persistence layer. This allows us to avoid reinventing the wheels and to take advantage of decades of innovations in the database community.

- Scalability: The entire system operates without a single synchronization point—not even a global sequencer. We drew many inspirations from the Hekaton and your TicToc paper. All four types of resources (CPU, Memory, Storage, Logging) can be scaled independently, as we mentioned earlier. More importantly, they can scale dynamically to accommodate workload changes without service disruptions.

We look forward to sharing more technical details as we move out of stealth mode. I hope to continue this conversation with you in person in the near future.
Remember kids, free speech means that everyone is contractually obligated to algorithmically broadcast everything you say, even if it is literal terrorism, to as many people as possible. Failure to do this is literally 1984.

(/s)
Tuning TensorRT-LLM for Optimal Serving
What should be shocking business is right in front of our noses: Other reports say investors in Musk's aquisition of Twitter are on the hook for billions of dollars.

How do they (and other investors in X) stand by while Musk sacrifices large markets for personal political battles? It's not just Brazil - look at how he gives up advertising revenue in order to promote far-right hate speech on X.

More broadly, if a corporation invests in DEI or ESG, which are relatively cheap, there's an uproar that it's not appropriate for businesses. If Musk (or others) lose large amounts for partisan political battles, it's accepted. In part I'm just saying the obvious: the uproars about DEI and ESG is has nothing to do with business or profits, and is really about reactionary politics. On the other hand, it's still shocking that investors give sacrifice this much money for Musk's and other people's partisan 'cause'.

Perhaps they feel they have much wealth to gain from the 'cause', which arguably is about big business and wealth seizing political power (see the Lewis Powell memo and, for example: https://the.levernews.com/master-plan/ ).
> you do realize that the "censorship" being mentioned is of literal terrorists?

I don't follow this very closely, but I wonder: if the Brazilian state or justice system consider them terrorists, what is getting in the way of bringing them to justice?
What is the story? URL to read? (Search resulted in another CEO's $70K salary thing.)

Is this like Pepsi’s Million Dollar logo redesign?
> Thriving companies like Arc and Linear build an entire aesthetic ecosystem that invites users and advocates to be part of their version of the world.

Afaik Arc still has no revenue and no clear path to a business model, so I’m not sure I’d call it a “thriving company.” I like and use their browser but I fully expect it to die once the money runs out, because people won’t pay for a better looking browser.
It is. What you think is truth today can easily be considered misinformation tomorrow.
I think it's possible do to it all on raspberry pico. Having pico doing low level driving and javascript in browser taking high level, feeding pico and providing UI. That would be close to perfect solution
The size being the same was not because of design reuse, but because that's the size limits imposed by the Space Shuttle payload bay. (1) Many of the contractors were the same, but that's because they won a competitive bidding process with a CCD design against a different set of contractors vidicon tube technology. Now, their experience with CCD's did come from the KH-11 process, but their bid did have competition.

1: Speculation but reasonably informed: in 1970 when the USAF was asked to set the size of the payload bay (in exchange for USAF political support on a program that had just survived by one vote, their parameters became the design guidelines for the STS) they basically went with their latest design at the time, the KH-10 Manned Orbiting Laboratory, which had already been canceled but was the latest thing anyone had. If the people at NRO who provided the specs had known how the future was going to go, they would have probably wanted a shorter but wider payload bay, so you could put bigger main mirrors into space. But, and this is total speculation, in 1970 when they are committing to this the KH-11 is far enough in the future that they don't have a good understanding of what it should be like. The KH-11 was designed to be carried into space by the STS, but the STS was delayed so its first flights were on unmanned rockets, and then after Challenger the NRO tried to get all of their satellites off the STS and go fully unmanned. A couple of satellites were far enough along that they were committed to the Shuttle after Return to Flight, but no more were committed after that point.
A fascist who is incredibly productive in the free market. That's a first!
"ripoff" is a very vague term and not equivalent to copying specific creature designs. I can call lots of AAA games ripoffs. I'm not specifically saying PalWorld isn't a ripoff here, what people call ripoff is pretty subjective, I'm saying the designs are fine. (Though the gameplay is very different from pokemon.)
The CLI is only displaying a "check" command but I did figure out that there is a "run" command as well.

go install github.com/formancehq/numscript@latest

go: downloading github.com/formancehq/numscript v0.0.8
go: downloading github.com/antlr4-go/antlr/v4 v4.13.1
go: downloading github.com/sourcegraph/jsonrpc2 v0.2.0
go: downloading golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20240707233637-46b078467d37

numscript -h

Numscript cli

Usage:
numscript [command]

Available Commands:
check Check a numscript file
help Help about any command

Flags:
-h, --help help for numscript
-v, --version version for numscript

Use "numscript [command] --help" for more information about a command.
This is a wild take. Would you mind expanding a bit on the oppressive, locked down ecosystem that’s choking the free expression of Linux users?
I'm 80% finished moving all of my servers from NixOS to Debian. I used NixOS for 3 years (even wrote some custom flakes) before finally giving up (for the final year I was just too scared to touch it, and then said "I shouldn't be scared of my OS"). I should know what "derivation" means, but I can't for the life of me remember...
The first one I downloaded (RTÉ colour) is an invalid SVG file.

Incidentally, what is the third icon on the home page, /e/? There's a name impossible to google.
I know in the post-truth era everyone can pretend their bubble is fact, but come on. Some things actually are misinformation.
I really want them to get it together with OpenCL 3 and especially Vulkan interop but I’m not really holding out hope for it.
Their version of January 6 took place after ours, so they're still going through early stages of the process. At least 86 have been convicted and sent to prison so far, likely low-level stooges since the higher-ups take longer.
Putting "literal" in front of a word does not clarify the definition of that word.
Marcus says generative AI like ChatGPT poses immediate dangers