skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Disclaimer: I've only read the abstract.)

I think the comments saying that this was already known, or obvious, are kinda missing the point.

It's always good to have some assumptions be experimentally verified, so we are all on the same page. Yes, echolocation plays a part, but (based on the abstract) this helps demonstrate that it's echolocation alone, i.e. it's not too affected when another sense is disrupted (for example smell). In other words, this checks if there's a bat-equivalent to the human "turning down the radio so you can see better" while parking a car.

For all we know, their maps could have linked to a secondary stimulus more tightly than we might have initially thought. Similar to how people might have difficulty remembering something until they do a second action, and it's the combination of these two actions (trying to remember + doing the second action) the actual trigger for remembering, instead of either action by itself. So isolating it to just echolocation is still worth verifying by itself.

The study also probably provides some specific data on conditions (of the bat, location, etc), distances, etc, to provide some upper or lower bounds on when the "exploratory actions" stop and the "memorized map" takes over, so we get an idea of approximate area size memorized (more data), stuff like that.

Imagine someone is doing a useless study like "Can humans feel pain on a body part they don't have?" with an obvious answer of "no of course not, that's BS", but going ahead anyway and discovering that phantom limbs and phantom pain are a thing (I don't know how this actually played out in history, I'm just trying to illustrate a point).

So TL;DR: the value of scientifically verifying "obvious" things is that, if things go as expected, you get specific data that can be used instead of assumptions; and if things don't go as expected, then that means the "obvious thing" wasn't so obvious after all.
Optimized solution of Kepler's equation (1972) [pdf]
> I believe Info Wars etc becoming big is pretty much a symptom rather than the problem

I believe the problem is how incredibly easy it is to both disseminate and consume utter bullshit. You're no longer that weird loner in town. You go online and can find hundreds and thousands of people who agree with you. Why would you go find people that challenge your views, when you can get those dopamine highs from people who love everything you say?

Get pushback from people in your life? Cut them out. They don't get you, and they're just hating.

The worst part? It's self-sustaining. Humans are really bad about going against a group. So much of our social behavior is around what others do, and the more we find out about others believing XYZ, we'll start to believe it ourselves. Unless they're from a different group, in which case it is anathema.

Combine those 2 things and you get these people who basically live in separate worlds. And social media/internet enables that.
> Is anyone instantly suspicious when they introduce themselves these days an "AI Developer"

I'm only suspicious if they don't simultaneously and eagerly show me their Github so that I can see what they've accomplished.
Scrum isn't inherently bad. I could do without the jargon. But if, as you put it, take it seriously, then it should work pretty well.

The reality of the big picture is you get a lot of quick-trained Scrum Masters with a process recipe facing skeptical devs. It's hard to turn that situation into a well oiled machine.
I suspect the main reason it is hard to find a job is because interest rate induced layoffs, and remote work created too much competition. Five years ago I wasn’t competing with someone thousands of miles away with a phd who used to work at a faang.

As for Ghost Jobs, I think they are skipping how many are just scams collecting data. There are many fake recruiters just posting job listings on behalf of companies they are not affiliated with.

I would also be interested how many of ghost jobs listed by actual companies are on purpose vs just lazy. It would be nice to have a whistle blower
Incidentally... I do expect inflation to fall over the next two years. The key driver of prices was fuel, which impacts everything else. And much of that has to do with sanctions against Russia, a key fossil fuel producer.

So I see it as likely that we will end those sanctions, and prices will drop. That will undoubtedly be popular.

I also strongly suspect it will be accompanied by a genocide in Ukraine. I consider it unfortunate that Americans won't give that nearly as much weight.
What's wild is that if I go to the Infowars website I can't actually tell if The Onion is controlling it yet or not. It all looks like satire already, full of absolutely ridiculous headlines.
The system is both a very narrow intellectual meritocratic system, and a "greed is our one-and-only God" late-stage capitalist system.

Kinda like a patient having two different kinds of cancer - you gotta keep distinguishing if you're trying to talk about details of the case.
So basically you're wasting the interviewees time and breaking the law by admitting that you won't hire a citizen who would do the job just as well.
This document presents a detailed description of KEPLER, an IBM 360
computer program used for the solution of Kepler’s equation for eccentric anomaly.
KEPLER employs a second-order Newton-Raphson differential correction process,
and it is faster than previously developed programs by an order of magnitude.
Anybody else have to triple check it wasn't just The Onion trolling?
> you only want someone who has already rote-memorized how to solve the particular problems you throw at them, not someone who can figure things out as the problems arise

This is literally what AI is, and why they don't want it used in the interview.
I have found that grit, curiosity, and relationship building are far more important than memorizing facts and applying formulae.

Society needs to value those attributes if we're going to solve the really hard problems.
Rage baiting?
Having openings posted looks good to venture capitalists, which is, more and more, the way to succeed in our economy.

This has secondary effects of teaching people that having open positions is good just for the sake of it. They don't stop to analyze why they think that.

While the workers might be busy there are managers or HR people who want to appear busy, and job postings is a thing they can do. It also feels good to see a bunch of applicants and feel like you're in a position of power while sorting through them--and of some actual work comes along you can just ignore the applicants.

In short, there's no reason not to post a ghost job.
How is the Onion supposed to top the actual cabinet appointments, for example?
So when interviewing, perhaps I should skip more places that say citizenship required on the req, to avoid wasting my time?
At the last startup I worked at, our CTO was on a visa.

To satisfy the "no one in the US can fill the CTO role", they took out an advertisement in a San Francisco newspaper classifieds so they had evidence that they attempted to find a US citizen / permanent resident CTO.

Obviously there were no applicants.
I agree with your assessment

Yes, LLMs are bad at this. A similar example: SAT solvers can't solve the pigeonhole problem without getting into a loop

It is an exceptional case that requires "metathinking" maybe, rather than a showstopper issue

(can't seem to be able to write the grammar name, the original comment from the discussion had it)
>> make a one-time-run charity auction collectible for the Sandy Hook families

They've got $1.5billion. Probably don't need the gold as well. There might be equally valid causes with less funds.
> The big difference is being able to download games / installers locally and expect them to work without having to first sign in to an account.

This is exactly why I use GOG and not Steam.
They probably don't want to be in the business of selling unregulated, scammy, and potentially dangerous goods. They might destroy the merch. Who knows.
Is this a new phenomenon?

My dad told me, that when he was in the office in the 1980s and 1990s, his manager would always keep a job opening active. The manager's goal was to be able to be opportunistic and snap up someone awesome when they came though.
Vacuum Laser welding is very much a thing already. Years back the old president wanted my team to build one from an old Wentgate e-beam chamber. Shipper destroyed the chamber in transit and my boss got into a silly fight with the vendor and shipper which killed the project. We then got a quote from EVO Beam who builds electron beam welders and other e-beam machines who does dual process, laser and EB in the same machine. Wound up buying another EB machine instead.

The challenge of welding in a vacuum is the molten weld pool emits metal weld vapor which impinges on surfaces in a linear trajectory from the pool. Think PVD, physical vapor deposition. So your beam delivery optics get a nice coating of whatever you are welding. I had some fun ideas for mitigating this in our design but never put it to test.
> It shouldn't be legal. But it is.

How is that legal? If you think the local applicant can do the job, you legally can’t hire the H-1B over them, right?
Oh, good catch, thank you! But I remember an example with some other tricky C expression/type declarator where the number of actual dereferences differed from the amount of asterisks in the code.

> Using the notation you did, that would be:

Well, it'd be

func x() ^[5] ^func() char; ...

because it's a function declaration, after all, not a variable.
In the US, the truth is a strong and approved defense against defamation. If you are for some reason terrified of defamation lawsuits in the one nation with the highest bar required to prove defamation, you can avoid any possible loss by simply not lying.
The proposed solution is bad, the file will be restored by the package manager at some point. Always prefix your override files with '99-' or 'zz-', this would have prevented the problem.
Analysis of algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election
Calling Sandy Hook a hoax and harrassing grieving parents is not "the right to be wrong".
It’s simply absurd that people who have traded their perfectly-functional Kindles for a discount in the Colorsoft now are left without a Kindle at all.

Amazon knows that many Colorsoft devices have screen issues. I don’t see why it couldn’t make things easier for the customers that regret the purchase and would like to switch to another Kindle model.
It really depends on the position of the prospective employee.

An unemployed person who needs a job should theoretically spend their workday hours on recruitment efforts. The prevalence of fake jobs might affect which roles they apply for but not the total number of applications.

However for employed individuals seeking a promotion it can have a big impact. Is it worth spending many hours of your leisure time applying/interviewing for a job that pays 10% more, if the job has even a small likelihood of being fake? Probably not.
Again, you're simply blaming the wrong people because it's easy and intellectually lazy.

New housing isn't being built not because we don't have the workforce. That is not the limiting factor on new housing.

New housing isn't being built because local governments DO NOT APPROVE new housing. They purposefully limit it, because the residents do not want their investments to go down in value. They go so far as to put laws in place to prevent affordable housing being built altogether. In many cities, you can't even put more than 1 unit on a lot and you need a special approval process to build apartments. Duplexes, triplexes, townhomes, dingbats - these are straight up illegal to build in a most areas.
IANAL, but I'd also imagine there's a difference between clear satire and something being presented as the truth. Additionally, The Onion generally goes after public figures while Infowars, in this case, was targeting private individuals. Not sure how either of these have bearing in the legal sense, but could be important factors.

Of course, in a politicized legal context, these points may not matter since legal action could simply be an endurance trial.
Is that really AI engineering or Software engineering with AI?

If a model goes sideways how do you fix that? Could you find and fix flaws in the base model?
I'm looking for the more Ragga heavy melodic dirty sounding jungle a la Krinjah's Return or Hold Yuh remix. Any new people on that sound?
Are you suggesting that companies are committing FRAUD ?
There has been a number of these on HN. Other features too. The first one I remember seeing was MagicMirror (not e-ink) ages ago.
NRL Engineers Ready Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites
They did? GOG has a great catalog of games that run under Linux.
Here’s Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, but real news]
Haven't you seen the DOGE department yet?
I doubt that the SH families will receive the kind of money they could have had if they accepted Jones' original offer. Their lawyers made it clear they were in it not for their clients' interest but for their own political agenda.
I've been watching the evolution of the web since 1995, and I remember when css got popular in the late 90s thinking that it didn't match real-world use cases. Somehow design-by-committee took us from drawing our sites with tables in the browser's WYSIWYG editor, to not being able to center text no matter how much frontend experience we have.

Css jumped the shark and today I'd vote to scrap it entirely, which I know is a strong and controversial statement. But I grew up with Microsoft Word and Aldus PageMaker, and desktop publishing was arguably better in the 1980s than it is today. Because everyone could use it to get real work done at their family-owned small businesses, long before we had the web or tech support. Why are we writing today's interfaces in what amounts to assembly language?

Anyway, I just discovered how float is really supposed to work with shape-outside. Here's an example that can be seen by clicking the Run code snippet button:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/33953666

Notice how this tiny bit of markup flows like a magazine article. Browsers should have been able to do this from day one. But they were written by unix and PC people, not human interface experts like, say, Bill Atkinson. Just look at how many years it took outline fonts to work using strokes and shadows, so early websites couldn't even place text over images without looking like Myspace.

I think that css could benefit from knowing about the dimensions of container elements, sort of like with calc() and @media queries (although @media arguably shouldn't exist, because mobile shouldn't be its own thing either). And we should have more powerful typesetting metaphors than justify. Edit: that would adjust font size automatically to fit within a container element.

IMHO the original sin of css was that it tried to give everyone a cookie cutter media-agnostic layout tool, when we'd probably be better off with the more intuitive auto flow of Qt, dropping down to a constraint matrix like Apple's Auto Layout when needed.

Disclaimer: I'm a backend developer, and watching how much frontend effort is required to accomplish so little boggles my mind.
Pulse Physiology Engine
Infowars itself confirms it: https://www.infowars.com/posts/watch-live-last-infowars-tran...
I wonder how cheating problem could be solved?

A cheap multi camera system + software, that can be quickly installed at candidates location to watch interviewing candidate. This can be sent by employer before interviews. its cheap enough that it can be thrown away.

traditional way - A company that provides interviewing centers across major cities for software interview, the location will have cameras that will make sure candidates are not cheating.
This is amazing! At some point someone will have to invent a standard for prompt templating
Underrated reference
I can’t tell if this is satire or actual comic book villain behavior. I guess not really villain behavior, but certainly gaming a clearly broken system
I run interviewing at a well known company, this isnt true
I think the problem is that American politics has become so polarized, that humor anywhere is more likely to be partisan political and written directly in reaction to that week’s events. The development has been observed for late-night television, and it’s not a new thing with The Onion either: already over a decade ago, friends who had grown up on classic 1990s Onion were bemoaning this shift. Sure, The Onion had used political figures in jokes before (“Congress Debates Rush”, “Clinton Declares Self President For Life”) but those politicians could have stood for anything; there was very little reference to specific policies or controversies.
You are a customer who bought then advertising space to keep it blank.
I gave up applying for jobs many years ago. Mostly because I am bad at the interview process. I maintain a good personal network and have a good reputation, so I can always find work.
Show HN: Remy – AI-Curated Video Playlists on Any Topic
Hey HN, we recently launched Remy, an AI agent designed to take the pain out of video search, and wanted to give the HN community a technical deep dive on how it works under the hood.

The Problem:
There’s a ton of valuable content on the internet, but finding the “best parts” of long videos is frustratingly inefficient. Current video search methods haven’t evolved much since the early days of YouTube and aren’t designed for today’s massive volume and variety of information. Instead, we’re left scrubbing through long videos or, worse, missing valuable content entirely due to decision paralysis. Remy’s goal is to offer a smarter way to surface exactly what you’re looking for, in a fraction of the time.

The Solution:
In less than a minute, Remy delivers custom playlists that isolate the best video moments from across the internet. It finds, clips, and organises segments to get you exactly what you need — without the endless search and skip game.

How it works:

Remy is powered by a stack of LLMs (and some non-LLM magic) designed for fast, focused video search and transcript processing. Here’s the pipeline:

1. Request Analysis
When you send a message, the system decides whether to provide an immediate response, search the web, or start assembling video clips. If video is the best option, Remy generates a playlist outline with concise titles and detailed descriptions tailored to your query. For temporal queries, Remy automatically adjusts context to absolute dates (e.g., “tomorrow’s NBA games” → “November 15th NBA Games”).

2. Content Retrieval
Using a ‘wide net’ approach, Remy generates a large set of targeted queries and searches the web for videos that could match your needs.

3. Multi-Step Filtration & Processing
Each video goes through:

- Transcript Pull: Extracts YouTube transcripts.

- Non-LLM Filter: Filters out low-quality or AI-generated content based on YouTube stats, creator channels, release date, and other parameters.

- Punctuation Restoration (BERT): Restores punctuation for better LLM comprehension.

- Clipping: Uses an LLM to locate and clip the most relevant segments of the transcript based on your request.

- Evaluation: Uses an LLM to score clips on relevance, completeness, and interest level. Only the best make it to the final playlist.

4. Reordering & Overview
A final LLM gets fed the top 16 clips for each topic, filters them down to the best 4 (at most), and arranges them for maximum uniqueness. Each section gets a brief overview, with added context pulled and cited from the web to give you additional context.

The result? A playlist tailored to your exact query, delivered in under a minute, without unnecessary noise.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback. If there’s something you’re curious to try or any edge cases that it's not handling, let us know. And if you come across any bad clips, please use the report button to flag them! Thanks
I've encountered this before with absurdly high job requirements paired with a low-moderate commensurate salary. While on call with an HR rep for a listing I had loosely met, I deduced from their responses it was done so the company could claim their talent needs aren't being met domestically, and thus would file for more H-1B or H-2B work authorization permits. This is rife with its own issues of non-transparency and offshoring, where I likely encountered it in the later stages[0] and was being paid lip service to the process without the intent of hiring.

[0] https://flag.dol.gov/programs/H-2B
Is AI Progress Hitting a Wall? No
Online Safety and the "Great Decentralization" –Unpacking Federated Social Media
I bet they sell fewer fraudulent merchandise than Bezos too
The most demoscene inspired game ever? Is there another? It's beautiful.
It is. Best case scenario H1Bs allow companies to avoid training citizens. Worst case (and most common) H1Bs are more exploitable labor compared to citizens.

H1Bs etc just suppress citizens wages and increase profits of capital holders. There’s a very very tiny % that actually aren’t replaceable domestically.
Both left and right are assemblages of compromises flying in loose formation.
I will literally leave a store if this is playing.

But also, the fact that you are damn near guaranteed to run into this song _yearly_ qualifies it to be way higher up than any other song on a "worst song" list (even if it weren't already at #1).
> If I disclose a security issue to you, it doesn't matter if you're a multinational trillion dollar corporation or a hobbyist in Nebraska, the onus is on you to fix it. Not the security researcher. Their job is done once it's disclosed.

On the other hand, if I'm a hobbyist, I have 0 obligations to do or fix anything I've made open source. Patches are welcome ofcourse.
Not likely. The new government is not interested in harming the interests of the big employers.
I guess this is about the domain name infowars.com which belongs to a bankrupt company.

Alex Jones is such a big name and has other channels (x.com, Joe Rogan etc.) that he can easily build a similar site/business under a new domain name.

Perhaps The Onion should ask - who gets most promotion of this?
Once is enough.
What if you don't need cups because you don't print anything?

Just sudo apt remove cups right?

No, because cups is a dependency of the entire graphical subsystem, just removing cups also removes everything from the Nautilus file manager to Firefox to ubuntu-desktop itself.
I opened Babylon Bee and all I saw was mockery of already marginalized people. I guess that's funny if you hate them.
It looks like another process certain software engineers want to program and facilitate. I hope it is and stays optional.
I'd prefer they make it the default to not install it. I don't need to print from Linux. I don't print from Windows nor MacOS much either. Less than once a year. But I particularly don't print from Linux. I suspect that true for most people. cups shouldn't be a default install IMO
I would also like to know
The threats were made by Jones followers rather than Jones personally.
> Seems like the requirement of proving "there are or aren’t any residents or citizens that can fill the job" is going to be near impossible for the government to enforce

Correct. It's pure theatre.
Just like how the last Trump government fixed it?
btw. you should write date of message on each message, on top of current date
Most of the time you just need to break up the view into smaller pieces. Eventually you realize you have a syntax error ;)
Lambs Born in April
FYI, the personal projects might be a detriment rather than a help as it may come across as "this person will have split priorities or might leave to pursue individual interests"

For better or worse, I might not showcase those that much.