skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: C++, JUCE, Python, PyTorch, Github Actions, Audio, Real-Time systems, Brain-Computer Interfaces.
Résumé/CV: https://www.edcunneen.com/cv
Email:jobs@edcunneen.com

I’m Ed Cunneen, a software engineer and creative technologist with experience in machine learning, real-time systems, and music technology. Lately, I’ve been diving into brain-computer interfaces and neural network classification. Before that, I worked in the audio space as a VST developer, building processing units and crafting tools for creatives.

My biggest strength is quickly getting up to speed on new topics with minimal guidance. I’m always curious about what I don’t know yet.

If you’re looking for someone who loves building cool things and learning fast, I'd love to connect.
> You can persuade or pay people to things that you can't threaten or force them into.

Any examples? Beyond immaterial things like respect/love/etc?
This will probably be like Domino's and there will be some sheepish announcement in three years where they talk about corrective actions but Amazon still won't deliver there due to crime.
Also americans are fed horrifying food products that are outlawed in civilized countries.
LMAO, this is unironically the kind of feedback I love to see from HN
Generally the voltage is a bad signal for grid load, it varies from too much from one part of the grid to another. It makes to have a safety cut-out if it goes too far out of bounds, but if it trips the grid is likely already quite over-supplied and other problems have happened first.

The main signal that's generally used to evaluate grid load is instead the frequency: it's the same everywhere on a synchronous grid, and because of inertial generation it will increase when there's more supply than demand, and decrease when there's more demand than supply, and that's what grid operators monitor to adjust the supply to meet demand.

Though it's worth noting, there's nothing that fundamentally stops an inverter from emulating an intertial generator: solar panel inverters can smoothly output anywhere from 0 to 100% of the power available from the solar panel (the remaining energy just gets dissipated as heat inside the panel, which doesn't harm it since it's at most an increase equal to the efficiency of the panel in the first place). A grid which has enough spare capacity in solar panels could operate stably off of them alone, while there's enough margin, if enough of the inverters were doing this emulation (OK, it would be slightly more complicated, you would still need some central control of generation to keep power flows balanced in the grid)

But in general home solar inverters don't implement this, there would still need to be some standardisation on how the grid controls them, and you probably still want some battery storage anyway as they can do it much more efficiently (solar inverters doing this emulation would necessarily not be running near 100% output), and it may be cheaper and easier to mostly delegate it to them.
I disagree with that advice, FWIW -- (void *) is the cause of a lot of bugs in C programs, and much stricter type checking was often the norm for compilers like CodeWarrior on platforms like classic Mac OS, where (a) if you got something wrong you'd corrupt app memory at best and the filesystem at worst and (b) many developers were used to Pascal, which was stricter. (Moving to GCC on Mac OS X and unexpectedly getting much more lenient type checking was a big surprise.)
very true.

Also, for a lot of the areas where languages like python or ruby aren't great choices because of performance, they would also not be great choices because of the cost of maintaining untyped code, or in python's case the cost of maintaining code in a language that keeps making breaking changes in minor versions.

Script with scripting languages, build other things in other languages
I mean, they aren't lying. The part they aren't saying out poud is that by "secure" they mean for their business partners against you, the end user trying to use the device you bought in ways they would rather you not.
From Cybersyn to Social Synthesis: Designing a Revolution
I can.. see this being used to solve crime, even solving unsolved mysteries and cold cases, among other alternative applications.
> The worst example is pointers since they're used to represent both references and optional values.

using a pointer as an optional value is an anti-pattern. correct idiom is to return a tuple:

type positive struct{}

func new_positive(i int) (*positive, bool) {
if i >= 0 {
return positive{}, true
}
return nil, false
}
I think to some degree the problem is a combo of some overestimating among part of the population (driven in part by recall of actual historical crime rates, and by anti-"blue"-city news media) of how dangerous big cities are, but also a huge failure to appreciate how dangerous lots of non-big-city places in the US are. It's not entirely that big US cities are necessarily super-safe (they're largely not, if you compare to international peers) but that lots of non-big-city parts of the US are shockingly dangerous, including many parts that folks don't expect to be.

> Where I live now people truly do not lock their doors. Most garage doors in my neighborhood stay open 24/7.

Rich suburban and small towns—and I mean where the whole area's kinda rich, not just a few neighborhoods—are in fact the sort of safe that lots of people incorrectly assume all suburbs and small towns are. I know how it is, I (now) live in one of those too, so Manhattan is in-fact more dangerous than where I am (these days). :-)

Like, my kid's neurologist lives just up our street and there's a country club every half mile, it seems like. Yeah, this particular place is quite safe. Go figure, if there's vanishingly little poverty around there's also very little violent crime. But lots of US suburbs, rural towns, small suburban towns, and smaller cities are really, really poor and there doesn't (any more? Maybe ever?) seem to be some kind of aw-shucks folksiness of attitude that effectively counters the effects of that—they're just as crime-ridden and dangerous as you'd expect, from the poverty stats.
Location: Portland OR
Remote: Remote / Hybrid
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Technologies: Typescript/Javascript, React, Java, Python, Playwright/Cypress, CI/CD
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Email:Sarlacc83 at gmail

I'm an experienced full stack engineer (almost 9 YOE) with a preference to front end. I'm happy either as an IC or a lead (and would also be interested in stepping into management at some point). I love mentoring and I want to help drive a company forward with great software decisions that meet customer needs.
I've been writing JavaScript since I was about your son's age and am now one of the editors of the JavaScript specification. His code is much much better than mine was at his age!

I have one piece of feedback for him about the code itself, in case he's interested (of course the important part is the game, not the code, but I'm more qualified to give feedback on the JS): put `"use strict"` at the top of every <script>.
Some people are more guilty than others. This CEO may have committed more murders than that of kings of past centuries.
UK police forces withdraw from X platform amid content concerns
Im always confused by the use of "quietly" in headlines like this. They publicly stated they where going to stop posting on X and then multiple stories come out about it. That's the opposite of "quietly".
I was talking about the power to enact healthcare policy change. I have the power to kick a dog, but that is tangential to the objective of interest.

My point is that healthcare reform is obstructed by the fact that everyday American citizens want very different things and cant agree.
It probably varies by environment, all I know is that it works 98% perfectly for me.
Envision | Applied AI Engineer | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Full-time | VISA
https://www.LetsEnvision.com

At Envision, we build AI technology that gives blind and low vision individuals independence through mobile apps, smart glasses, and Ally - our real-time visual assistant. Our solutions enable users to navigate daily tasks across platforms and languages, from text recognition to form completion. Our technology directly impacts millions of users who rely on it for daily independence.

Tech: Python, Neural Networks, (V)LMs, Transformer Architectures, FastAPI, LangGraph

Requirements:

3+ years shipping Python-based products in production

Strong fundamentals in neural networks and transformer architectures

Demonstrated experience building with and deploying (V)LMs

Bonus:
Backend development (FastAPI),
agentic systems experience,
AI-assisted development workflows(an expert Cursor/Windsurf/Whatever AI-assisted IDE user)

What we offer:

Competitive salary + stock options
Visa sponsorship (Dutch highly skilled migrant)
Flexible hybrid work (3 days minimum at Rotterdam office)
High autonomy
Opportunity to make a real impact with AI.

Contact: kk@letsenvision.com
In most b-school group projects, the work is fairly easy enough such that the headache of kicking someone is out is probably greater than just doing the work amongst the remaining members.
> Companies like Github and Steam are too shit to add a few AAAA records

Yeah, it's... it's not that. Github has talked about it being difficult because their whole stack expects v4 and IIRC is doing some sort of IP reputation/rate-limiting system. I don't know specifically about Steam but I'd be shocked if they aren't even more invested in reputation systems that are built around v4 addresses. Now to be clear, I agree that both of them should do the engineering work to support IPv6 (dual-stack and single), but claiming it's just a matter of adding AAAA records is wrong.
Another comment here proposed several guesses. The internet is filling up with slop everywhere and even if a given post isn't directly a scam or advertisement it could be someone simply practicing or trying to make an account look real so it can be later sold or used for profit.
> it often turns out they are running Android

Or KaiOS.
> Violent resistance or tacit acceptance of monstrous cruelty

Granted I haven’t read the book you mentioned, but I’m always surprised at the tacit acceptance of this false dichotomy which is presented over and over in Christian writings, in order to justify choosing violent resistance. A third option, which is actually compatible with Jesus’ command to not resist evil, is to love your enemy, and their victims simultaneously, by redirecting the evil upon yourself, as Christ did and taught himself, while teaching them the truth. You will definitely die, but you might have a chance at following Christ.
This made me think I'd somehow not saved my MS password because it wouldn't show up if you searched "microsoft". I know you can combine them like the other comment mentioned but what an awful default experience.
Google's DeepMind tackles weather forecasting, with great performance
Show HN: Amurex – A cursor like copilot for meetings but also open source
tldr:

I built Amurex, an open source Chrome extension for meeting transcription, real-time suggestions, and automated follow-ups.

I’ve tried every transcription and meeting tool out there, and none of them worked the way I needed. So, I built Amurex:

- No clunky bots joining or announcing themselves.

- Accurate, clean transcripts delivered right after the meeting.

- Auto-generated follow-ups that I can edit and send in seconds.

But most importantly, it is the only meeting copilot that does:

- Real-time suggestions during meetings to help me stay focused (or at least less miserable).

It’s also fully open source because I believe good tools shouldn’t be locked behind paywalls.

If you’ve ever struggled to stay engaged in meetings or needed quick, reliable transcripts and follow-ups. I’d love to hear what the community thinks!
"In Russia even anarchists are imperialists"

Józef Piłsudski (which also wasn't a great guy, but about Russia he was right)
TBH none of those have impressed me as much as Woody.
> Accounts posting squarely legal content are removed by the site administrators because the community demands that they not have to deal with 'nazis and bigots'

I'm not sure that that is true. I subscribe to a blocklist of transphobes, which has literally thousands of people on it. I suspect that libsoftiktok et al were getting performatively banned by putting bigoted content in their _profiles_, which _are_ somewhat heavily moderated.

(Though, actually, that libsoftiktok arsehole does sometimes sic her followers on named people, which is verboten, so maybe it was that.)
It does visualise how big the difference is though
Update: Response has been overwhelming, requests for food, medical costs, and other life critical needs are being prioritized. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Very misleading.
> The game theory here is that if you're a foundation model "company", you're dead - big tech will kill you. You don't have a product, and you're paying a lot to do research that isn't necessarily tied to customer demand.

Basically, the foundation model companies are outsourced R&D labs for big tech. They can be kept at arms length (like OpenAI with Microsoft and Anthropic with Amazon) or be bought outright (like Inflection, although that was a weird one).

Both OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to move away from being pure model companies.

> If you're a leading AI research+product company, everyone else will release their code/research to create a thousand competitors to you.

Trillion dollar question - is there a competitive edge / moat in vertical integration in AI? Apple proved there was in hardware + os (which were unbundled in wintel times). For AI, right now, I can't see one, but I'm just a random internet comentator, who knows.
Wow I would have ripped that flooring out if I could. Sounds like you turned your home into a superfund site for microplastics and vocs.
If you're implementing C23 compatibility, you could do

auto p = (thing_t *)malloc(sizeof(thing_t));

and you get both DRY and avoid (void *) casting.
I actually saw this happen at Google: no one could pinpoint the cause of the broken build for a while, and then it turned out to be a UX designer who broke the build. He was apologetic, like McFunley's example. But unlike the example, this guy never made another commit.
The best minds of the generation are on wall street trying to figure out how to quickly spot inefficiently priced options 1% more often.

Seriously, I wish more than anything I was kidding.
> The only one I've seen is the gartner snake but here in Edmonton it is just a little bigger than an earthworm.

That might just be because Edmonton has lots of enormous dew worms :)

There are bigger garter snakes around - I live just outside Edmonton and see them pretty frequently. I hear there are plenty of rattlesnakes in southern Alberta too.
I’ve never heard of anyone disinfecting a pool with iodine. Bromine is used sometimes. But it doesn’t seem like it would help much:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11990150/

In any case, IMO the volatility issue is a bit silly. Chlorine is indeed volatile, but chlorinated cyanurates are not, and one can, and should, have cyanuric acid mixed in with one’s chlorinated pool/splash pad water to “stabilize” the chlorine. (They do decrease the effecacy of the chlorine at any given concentration, but they make up for it by making it much easier to maintain an appropriate concentration.) And one can buy a (moderately expensive!) system to monitor and control, closed-loop, the chlorine concentration in the water, so maintaining an appropriate chlorine level in a public pool is not actually that hard.

The real problem here is that cryptosporidium is hard to kill.
Bitumen paint for the inside of concrete water tanks is still a thing.
I don't use it for that, but I have used it as a barrier layer on outdoor timber objects, like fence posts, DIY planters and shed floors.
I think two things happen:

1. They say they are opposed to regulations publicly, but indicate they will "compromise" privately.
2. They lobby against some regulations and against others.

Here is an example of a business openly asking for more regulation: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51518773 I actually agree with some of his arguments, but I do not think his motives are exactly pure.
He should be more careful with his words, but they're resorting to cherry picked quotes and guilt by association to mislead:

"appeared onscreen next to"

It's unserious. To get his actual opinion, which is nuanced, you have to go long form.
China debuts modified solid rocket with remote sensing satellite launch
> And if the hardware ( / firmware) is so shit that it still doesn't support it, you shouldn't be using it, since it's basically e-waste at this point (and causing more e-waste by the network effect).

Well, no. If you have an IPv4 connection then the devices work, therefore they're not e-waste. If you make up a requirement to not use a still-functional technology and thus your gear breaks, that's a you problem.
Well that was mainly for the workers who weren’t wearing their ppe which turned out to be a lot in that industry. PPE is important and not lame folks.
It looks like the author has hit some pretty serious snags along the way and is a lot more understanding than I might be under similar circumstances.

My experience, having just bought a framework 13 with AMD internals a couple of months ago (and letting them build it for me), has been a purely flawless one with ubuntu 24.04. Everything just works and I love being able to swap the ports and the ethernet adapter as needed. The fan rarely makes a sound at all and it's blazing fast compared to the similarly spec'd system 76 darter pro it replaced (though it was a few years old). Battery life is "fine" but not amazing but charging is pretty quick, so it's still a bit of an improvement over the darter.
These clips feels like watching someone dream in real time. Particularly the door ones, where the environment changes in wild fashion, or the middle NPC one, where you see a character walk into shadow and mostly disappear and a different character walks out.
“ Generating unlimited diverse training environments for future general agents” it may seem unlimited but up to a limited point there will be a pattern. I don’t buy that an AI can use a static model and train itself with data generated from it
You could always try using cloudflare's Zero Trust features, I use cloudflared to avoid opening any ports and attracting pesky scanners.
It’s called a window
> Aristotle believed that women have fewer teeth

So you haven't read Aristotle, you've read about Aristotle. Many such cases.

I didn't recommend Aristotle without qualifications. I recommended Rhetoric. It's a stack of hundred dollar bills just sitting on the sidewalk, which you can pick up any time you want.

If you'd rather feel superior to someone from the ancient world, because you were taught things he didn't know (and own none of that insight yourself), rather than gittin gud, that's up to you. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
> What is actually of value here?

Noone knows yet. AI technology like this is closer to scientific research than it is to product development. AI is basically new magic, and people are in a "discovery" phase where we are still trying to figure out what is possible. Nothing of value was immediately created when they discovered DNA. Productization came much later when it was combined with other technologies to fit a particular use case.
I honestly disagree. Google is the only FAANG member that has made AI features I actually consider helpful. Furthermore, I think their strategy is heads-and-shoulders above Microsoft and Apple, who are both desperately paying other businesses to do the "AI stuff" for them. Google is at least doing it in-house, and I don't feel at all like they're behind OpenAI's integrations.
> remained stuttered and twitchy for the rest of his life.

That's an amazing time constant. He should have gotten a job as an electrolytic supercap. Audiophiles doing single-ended stuff would have loved him. He could probably pass signal down to a fraction of a Hertz into an 8 Ohm load.
its called crispr, not crisp.
A new catalyst can turn methane into something useful
I have a soundslice account that I use infrequently. It's pretty nice. Thanks for building it and making it available.
> and so on is actually directly in your own self interest. But people have this idea that taxes benefit nobody so we work scrupulously to avoid them.

But my point is that it's not. It's in your interest to have those things but not in your interest to pay for them. Having government programs such as roads is beneficial. Paying for roads out of your own pocket is not. So we should expect to see people dodge taxes wherever it's practical to do so.

This has implications for how you design a taxation system. For example, there is an optimal sales tax rate that is neither significantly lower than your neighbors nor significantly higher—one where the inconvenience of shopping somewhere else is higher than the cost of shopping locally.

The only way to get around the problem is to make receiving the government services contingent on paying the tax. Vehicle registration fees are a good example, as are property taxes. If roads are paid for out of a tax that you can't avoid paying if you own a car, then using the government-provided infrastructure is contingent on paying for it and it's in your self interest to do so.

Sales taxes are particularly problematic in this regard because the people who pay them are often not the people who benefit from the programs paid for. (Though this is less true in small isolated towns than it is in large Metro areas.)
Why Your Microservice Integration Tests Miss Real Problems
Building a distributed database for durable execution
100 years later, sure. What about in December 1924?
Maybe you are aware of the problem because you are a "proper lefty"?

A dying breed these days, unfortunately.

It is certainly glossed over by "market fundamentalist" types who tend to think let the market do its work is magic pixie dust.
what for world models be equivalent of ChatGPT for LLM to really blow up in utility?
Mise also has support

https://mise.jdx.dev/
I still thought that passage was interesting. It is a totally reasonable prediction of how much of public health would read it.

The post and your comment emphasize how the impact of science depends more on the public than the handful of scientists who create it. Roughly ~0% of people understand any given scientific topic. It will always be completely asymmetric. It will always involve stuff like belief in an ideology, struggles for political power, (relatively blind) trust in a movement or leader, etc. As a result, there is no world in which scientists don't regularly harm whoever follows them, the same as any leader in an uncertain/asymmetric environment (by getting stuff wrong accidentally, or actively abusing their power for personal gain).

The part about social justice warriors is actually interesting because that view will come across as "we hate science!" to some people but the real idea is somewhere between "successful science requires exerting some political power over other people" (obviously true) and "western science was built on a foundation of coercion and oppression, making lots of technological progress and causing some unavoidable tragic effects." Whatever the "truth" is, it's really complicated ethically.
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When one side has a repeatedly-stated policy goal like sending the military against "the enemy within" while specifically calling-out political opponents as belonging to said group, it's difficult to interpret that as a mere clash of worldview, even when assuming it's mere bluster to gin up engagement at rallies.
>Look how little it has progressed in the first 20 years of this century

This is naivete on the scale of "Cars were much safer 70 years ago".