skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're straw-manning. I never proposed anything like government enforcement against misinformation.

Tyranny is the only alternative to free speech. I just don't see it ending in any other way.

> I don't think misinformation should be illegal, for the reasons you touch on: You certainly don't want government deciding the truth.

Awesome! Then we can stop making such a big deal out of misinformation and protect free speech.

> But I can at least hope you can agree that misinformation as a concept is unethical, right? People are literally dying because of misinformation.

Yes lying is unethical it's been established thousands of years ago.
> Even if lies spread far and wide they always get exposed eventually

Eventually, yes, but until it happens, bodies are piling up.

EDIT: Also, FWIW, the truth is often exposed nearly immediately, yet for some people, once they have chosen to believe the lie, they can't be convinced of the truth.
Really I thought Bezos cancelled the WP opinion piece of endorsing Trump after they met up at Blue Origin?
There are ways you can present being deaf as an advantage.

I personally think it's excessively reductive, but there are those that say, for example, that you become more attuned to your other senses when you lose your hearing, or even that area of the brain can be repurposed for other tasks. They may say, therefore, that the only reason being deaf is a disability is because the world is designed for non-deaf people. In the same way that you wouldn't consider yourself disabled for being unable to see x-rays or detect magnetic fields.
Rails UI components to build your app the easy way
Just read the (3) Erowid reports logged with xenon. Really interesting.
I've snored since I was a teenager, but didn't think much about it.

I met my wife about 11 years ago, and she said that I would do a kind of disturbing "stop breathing" thing when I slept pretty shortly after we met, and I didn't think much about it then either.

About a year ago, I decided to see a doctor and it turns out that I have sleep apnea; after a bit of finagling I managed to get a specialized oral appliance, I sleep much better. I don't snore anymore, my blood-oxygen levels stay in the green level, and my wife says my breathing during the night is pretty normal. Now I'm mad at myself for waiting so long to do anything about it.

Pretty much everything in my life got about 10-20% easier after I started getting proper sleep. I think a bit clearer, I process conversations a bit better, I'm able to focus on tasks a little easier. It didn't magically "solve" all my problems, but it did make them a lot easier to work around.
My github credentials are all stored in hardware devices.
You are quite the tyrant. Think about what you are proposing. You should be ashamed
> a movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning

Dictionary meaning of gesture.

> Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the *visual-manual modality to convey meaning*

From the introduction to the wikipedia article.

Sign language is definitely made of gestures, at least by my understood definition of the word gesture.
The presidential government system has the flaw of the citizenry ascribing blame or credit to the president for effects that they had no hand in. It impedes learning from mistakes, compared with the parliamentary system where the accountability is somewhat more direct.
Wix? Pay a few dollars a month, write what you want, nothing to maintain.
Kim Deal Is Ready to Go Solo. It Just Took 4 Decades
Why not just ask politely instead?
> "buffers" are two massive oceans, those are not going anywhere for the next million years

There are also nukes. Nobody is invading America any time soon. But losing that security space means conceding a massive chunk of our GDP and, with it, autonomy and quality of life. At the very least, the system of government that oversaw that failure would be replaced.
I agree.

@GP: It's never too late to post old stuff in HN if it's interesting. Just add (2013) to the title here. It can also be a post mortem, with the extendd story in your comment, a few maps and the explanations of the main suggested improvements.
Lately I've noticed on Reddit people blocking me the second they respond to me so that they have the last word in an e-fight*. Horrible implementation.

*yeah, 20 years on the internet and I still have that dog in me
Fishermen sometimes happen upon submarine accidents. This one dates from 2003:

On April 25, 2003 the crew of a Chinese fishing boat noticed a strange sight—a periscope drifting listlessly above the surface of the water. The fishermen notified the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) which promptly dispatched two vessels to investigate.

https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2018/06/07/in-2003-chin...

Every one of the submariners died.

There was another reported Chinese sub accident in 2023, but it's not clear how it was discovered (https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-submarine-death...).
Yeah, in some ways I like "system design" type questions, because at least it's pretty creative and more like what I do at work than writing some little algorithm with a custom data structure.

But on the other hand, it's also not a very strong signal for my years of experience working on and designing portions of systems. I've never actually done "design a system from scratch", because every system that is big and complex evolved from some smaller and less complex system.

So the kinds of questions that come up in these system design interviews are best answered in real life with "I dunno, I'd pick something simple and refactor it later if it becomes a bottleneck".

"What kind of database would you choose for this?" "Whatever we're already using in production for other things." "How would you model this data?" "As simply as possible, so that we can get it out fast and start learning things."

But these are not interesting answers in these interviews. I have usually found myself saying "well, in real life, I would advocate for simplicity and iteration, but for the purposes of this interview, I'm happy to discuss potential trade-offs in technology selection, architecture, and data modeling".

But I think it's easier to study up on the "right" answers to the architecture and modeling questions, without spending a lot of time learning how to start simple and when to evolve toward complexity, etc.
I misunderstood your comment, you meant FATCA compliance.

But why would the US LLC need to open a non-US bank account?

Also, a US LLC wholly owned by a foreign company is a disregarded entity for income tax purposes. It is not considered a US fiscal resident.
interview followed by paid internship/probation. watch them work on your real system. Keep them if they're good.
Inspiring story. TL;DR: Built a legal tech for students, tried selling for a while, didnt get a lot of traction and then ultimately sold the project to someone else.

I think you did a lot of things the right way but probably went after a tough market. Students. Students are the most broke category and then comes indiehackers :). I would usually refrain from selling to these 2.

"A quick market-sizing exercise: there are ~110k law students in the US, ~25% of whom are in journals, and half of those are 2nd years. If I could penetrate even 10% of that market at $10/month, I’d be at $165k in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)"

Haha. This is a classic newbie founder mistake thinking all you need is a % of the market. We all have made it. Now you know. Market estimate should be made bottom up, not top down.

"find the connectors"

This is so key. If you are in a niche industry, finding the right connections who can open doors can be huge.

"Don't be a solo founder"

As a solo founder (even though with a small team), I couldn't agree more. I know having co-founders brings in risks of conflict etc but I am so ready to build a fresh team with cofounders who are thinking about the business 24-7 like I do. If you have a team like that and you work well together, that's a dream.

Tell us more about your next thing.
> We filter for the worst, most damaged, and most desperate people.

These are probably the best candidates, from the perspective of a manager who is concerned with stability and not rocking the boat, at the cost of results and workplace quality.
> Wrong

How? I fail to understand why if a browser, configured to not persist anything by default (without a consent) would persist anything. Save for a bug, of course.
...One nation indivisible – with liberty and justice for
all.

Justice has prevailed.

Welcome Back, Alex.
To be fair, regional burns are basically Burning Man without the techbro yuppie contingent. A lot more randos, hippies, and weirdos. More like summer camp for grownups than a place to show off on IG or whatever people use these days.

*(Caveat, haven't been to one in the last 5 or 6 years so things may have changed. As always, "it was better next year!")
> blazing fast, shall we say, to make me believe anyone even wanted to pay attention to tiny performance regressions

Important to distinguish frontend vs backend performance of course. This is about backend performance where they care about this stuff a lot because it multiplies at scale & starts costing them real money. Frontend performance has less of a direct impact on their numbers with the only data I know on that is the oft-cited Google stuff trying to claim that there's a direct correlation between lost revenue and latency (which I haven't seen anyone else bother to try to replicate & see if it holds up).
+1

Jumping into an unknown codebase (which may be a library you depend on) and being able to quickly investigate, debug, and root cause an issue is an extremely invaluable skill in my experience

Acting as if this isn’t useful in the real world won’t help. The real world is messy, documentation is often missing or unreliable, and the person/team who wrote the original code might not be around anymore.
For one thing, people often seem stupid to others not so much because they really are so, but because they don't happen to share another's specific context, views and opinions of certain things. Agreement is a terrible way to measure intelligence but so many of us do it.

Secondly, the very fact that you can't convince some people to "get it" (whatever the hell that thing may be, regardless of whether you're the one who's actually failing to get something at the same time) is evidence of their self directed reasoning. For better or worse, it's there, along with a sense of self that even the ostensibly dumbest person has, excepting maybe those with truly profound mental disabilities.

None of these things apply to LLMs, so why not drop the semantics about similarity or much less equivalence? Sel awareness is a sensation that you yourself feel every day as a conscious human being in your own right, and no evidence whatsoever indicates that any LLM has even a smidge of it.
What are the implications of a zero-emission renewable grid in part of the country and carbon-intensive grid in another? (As a hypothetical.) Can we extrapolate power prices and volatility? Transmission opportunities depending on time of day?
That's in no small part for the benefit of the US university, though, not just a personal benefit to the student. In some sense, grad students are a bit like faculty in that they are "part of" the university and contribute to its prestige and academic output in a way that undergrads don't. Not providing them with grants, and thus decreasing the success in recruiting them, would lower the prestige of the university and the accomplishments of its PI's labs.

Undergrad selectivity/quality does affect rankings too, but it doesn't probably doesn't affect faculty recruitment (except for the rare faculty that care a lot about teaching), but grad student recruitment absolutely does. Even a pathological case of a selfish PI who doesn't care about the students themselves and just cares about his own prestige/publications is going to be very interested in the quality of grad students coming in each year. Even state institutions that favor in-state heavily for undergrad generally don't do so for grad school.

Likewise, having an international faculty and grad student base is typically considered an ipso facto positive thing for a university, which has a inherent role of exchange of ideas and thus also of the people that hold them. Some countries even offer grants to arguably more generous grants to foreign students (ex. the MEXT scholarship in Japan) for that reason--having quality international students is an essential part of the prestige of their unis and one that they by definition can't improve through their own students.

Re: your point about costs, even with tuition grants, the costs of grad school in the US due to double effect of the strong dollar and high cost of living is likely to be just as high as a domestic school with higher tuition but potentially free room and board, and much lower food/transit/etc costs.
The premise of the article feels slightly out of phase with the messy details of actual history. Certainly “Early Christians = COOPERATE-BOT” was no longer true after Constantine brought state power to bear in favor of the religion’s interests. But then again, the author doesn’t state what they consider “early”.
It's very mild compared to postgraduate education. Or getting a degree in general. That's years!
This is super cool. One neat idea: when I'm in offline mode, I can clone my voice, provide some context data/sources, and have my AI clone answer calls for me. It can give me a summary of conversations it had each day and allow me to follow up.
I did not know that subs can do that reversible gliding trick. That is pretty neat.
I understand how this works, but for some reason, when I read your comment, I thought of Flappy Bird.
I 100% agree with the line you quote and refute in your reply, which I've repeated below...

> when an individual suffers from moderate to severe hearing loss, they are less likely to participate in social activities. Perhaps they are embarrassed about their hearing loss. Or they may simply find it unrewarding to attend a social event when they cannot hear what is going on.

This has been my life experience since the late 60's. It's my life right now.

You replied...

> People who are born deaf/hh , or who lose their hearing early in life, if they are allowed to access and participate Deaf/HH communities and spaces, simply do not have any of these difficulties in social contexts within those communities.

As someone who's been hard of hearing for most of their life, I'm curious exactly where these "HH communities" might have been in 1969, or the 70's, or 80's, or even now in the 2020's? Beyond the occasional subreddit that is. I suppose in elementary school the teachers could have put me in special ed classes. Or made me sit in the front of the class all the time. I'm glad they didn't do either.
Need feedback on my open source library
XFrames is an open source library that is meant to facilitate cross-platform, GPU-accelerated GUI development in the browser and in native Node.js applications - no DOM, no CSS.

It runs, through native prebuilt modules, on Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi. Once I get my hands on a Mac, I'll build it for Apple silicon too.

It's early days, but early feedback would be highly appreciated.

Thanks!
I wholeheartedly disagree with this take. there's nuance obviously and takehome coding challenges can be done horribly but when done right and assessed properly, they are a wonderful tool for hiring.
The French university was re-founded in Louvain-la-Neuve, an atypical and fairly successful planned city. It has some small community character and a whimsical architecture that's more trying to be cozy rather than impressive. Recommended for architecture enthusiasts.
Why choose a state that gets heavy snowfall? Is the solar potential in all the sunny states saturated?
This blog post lists problems but offers no solutions.

Yes, complain all you want about what companies SHOULDN'T do. But then what do you feel is a better approach?

From my experience, you ask 4 software engineers what a proper interview should look like and you'll get 4 different answers.
Maybe not as strikingly bad, you ever heard Pat Boone's In A Metal Mood? [1] Someone stole my copy of that in high school... I suspect they had another thing coming.

[1] https://youtu.be/J7ktY8L6v0A?feature=shared
> probably exactly the folks they don’t want to filter out!

Maybe? non-desperate folks might waste the company's time. Usually companies can only give out one offer at a time. If the non-desperate person takes a while to accept, someone else in their pipeline may get an offer and flake.

We had a candidate agree to a start date and then cancel 2 weeks before because they decided to stay at their job.

> “I expect you to intuit what I want and I won’t tell you directly”?

They do tell you directly? "Do this hard uncomfortable task, where the task is study leetcode, completing a coding project."
If you don't follow him and use "Following" instead of "For You", you will basically never see him.

"Following" is invariably better anyway, because then you're seeing the things you want to instead of the things that the algorithm suggests.
It added friction, and that's often all that's needed to stop low-effort harassers (which are BY FAR the most numerous). Hell-bans work even better, and still do nothing that can't be seen publicly.

I guarantee you that they knew this. Everyone doing anything social knows it. It's an industry standard because it's extremely effective.
In the United States, illegal immigration is largely a humanitarian crisis. A crisis in some ways caused by the United States and their involvement in Latin America the past century.

Opposition to the incoming administration’s plan for mass deportation does not have to do anything with wanting a cheap labor pool to exploit or a lack of desire to enforce the law but potentially to avoid exasperating the humanitarian crisis. Additionally there is the huge economic costs and impacts discouraging even legal immigrants from entering the country to work as migrant farm labor and so on.

This post[0] really opened my eyes to the scale of the plan Trump et al has and the kinds of impacts it could have.

[0]: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-deportation-army
I agree they're not an ideal target but I've been surprised to hear indie projects that succeed with students as customers.

Mitchell Hashimoto created a service that students at UW could use to find out when registration slots were open for high-demand classes and made $160k/yr from it.[0]

Aaron Francis sold a study guide for an accounting class at Texas A&M[1] and made a lot from it, though I can't find a public source on it.

[0] https://youtu.be/vMzToDQPgH4?feature=shared&t=1720

[1] https://acct229.com/
> There is no burden of proof required to assert a hypothesis. This is how none of truth nor science nor security operate.

In the scientific world, a hypothesis that has no evidence is treated with skepticism.

In the rest of the world, it gets treated as fact, even as evidence against the claim pours in.
1B Nested Loop Iterations
in my experience linkedin is basically useless, outside of allowing HR to validate you exist and have enough connections at companies you used to work at to prove you were there. but even those can be gamed.
No. In general I prefer not to fiddle with preferences. If a site/app/OS has a decent set of defaults, I'll just use that. Attempts to optimize it are rarely significant improvements, and usually just lead to bike-shedding (spending more time arguing about the color than actually building).
Like Elon being conditioned by his own social media website.
So, let me get this clear, after PyPA enshittifying the package expérience for more than a decade, and now mess has been clean by uv, the security FUD (and let not be naive here, the power struggle) move onto enshittifying PyPI and make Python user miserable for a decade more ?
If a fishing net or line was strong enough to stop a sub, then no sane commercial fisherman would ever pay the extra $$$$$ for it, to get that that level of overkill. Plus, the "nuclear-strength" net or line would weigh a LOT more, and fishing involved plenty of hauling your stuff out of the water & other handling.
It absolutely does, and with the recent uptick in recreational nitrous use we have clear examples of what it does to people. This is just one of the handful of cases of nitrous overuse leading to long term mobility loss

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67355097
Yes. It takes literally seconds, and is a single command on basically every platform.

If you're afraid of that - are you realistically going to be running a cli interactive find and replace?

If you want to package up an EXE for your specific system and host it somewhere - the license is MIT, go right ahead...
Also want to point out that the jq cli, brew install jq on mac will also process json by typing "cat yourfile.json | jq .” or interactively with "jq . <<< '{"key": "value”}’”

Just wanted to point this out, because often I don’t want to put my private json data into some rando website.
Previously thrice yesterday, two with discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42145919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42139019
I still have mine.

Unfortunately not seen a use in years now.

Did you use PS2GL, or the low level one with what is now kind similar to what devs are exposed to on Metal, Vulkan, DX12?
Probably just a coincidence that the recent investment in Bluesky came via a friend of Eric Adams[0] and absolutely not at all any kind of backhanding going on.

[0] Brock Pierce, crypto lunatic.
You call it haskish but it's something I've done in the pasty and find useful.

I don't find debuggers all that useful, because I often find I'm spending more time thinking about how to use the debugger rather than how to fix the bug; since debugging is hard I want tools that I don't have to think about at all, as they distract me from thinking about the bug.

Maybe that's because I don't have enough experience with a particular tool. If I used a debugger more often it would come naturally to me. But I find most of my bugs are simple enough that that doesn't happen, because I write modular code and TDD.
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Folks on this forum mostly won't remember but about 20 years ago the in-vogue way of interviewing software engineers was to ask "puzzle questions" (e.g. "I have 100 ball bearings and two are a different weight than the rest....") and "lateral thinking" questions ("why are manhole covers round?") because that's what they did at Microsoft and everyone copied Microsoft.

I'm told this is still the common style of interview for mechanical engineers, which says something about what it's like to work in that industry too.
Overbuilding & batteries in snowy areas is cheaper than an HVDC line from a sunny area. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/the-future-of-...
you do realize all of the worlds most valuable companies are either built on/for internet or heavily leverage it
That's what companies already do.

Are you suggesting that any coding interviews and challenges are simply removed from the existing processes? That just means you end up with more candidates to choose from, which doesn't sound helpful at all if your goal is to end up with better hires as the comment above was suggesting.
Why not both? I don't think solar panels are scarce, no need to hold back investment up there.
If you don't own the domain your content is served from, you have nothing. With control of the domain there will always be some way to redirect or migrate, but without that, you'll always be at the mercy of the domain owner. I don't know if there were any alternate proposals, but it is a shame of internet history web and email weren't focused on domain ownership first, with different subdomains proxied/routed to other services.