skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do live in the EU, if the plan to get access to the phone number with the telecom operators on monday doesn't pan out I will try to do that.

Honestly I don't mind waiting weeks to recover the contents of my account as long as I know that it's not lost forever. But all the FAQ and comments on the internet regarding similar scenarios have no good ending and people just giving up with no recourse.

I knew about Subject Access Request but didn't cross my mind I could use it in my current scenario. Thank you!
Eating from the hand of the same chef all my life? No, thanks.
I'm sure there are people who will search for their actual private key, potentially leaking it.
You can’t really. I was a recruiter working internally at a company, and a hiring manager wanted to keep certain jobs open to collect resumes even though he had no headcount to hire anyone at that time. There was nothing I could do other than object.
As a user you are now tje customer and the value that you get it's to not have to deal with LinkedIn and similar, and find jobs that are not posted on those platforms.
> Suffolk County officials said the latest baby co-sleeping deaths brought the total to six so far in 2024, after 10 in 2023. County Executive Ed Romaine made a personal plea to parents after hearing the alarming statistic.

So, the per annum rate of fatality actually decreased! The statistic shouldn't be alarming, but reassuring.
> The point is that the obligation flows one way because one party was inserted into it without their consent.

Well, philosophically it's not a big problem, because dissatisfied can very easily stop participating.
Good point, I'm not sure the numbers that accounts for this yet. I also have the reverse issue of an employer removing a job posting that has been filled so the scrapers need to visit each listing to see if it is indeed still up (where most listing sites will have an expiration date or the employer will pull it once filled)

I'd like to extend features for job seekers to log steps in the interview process. If users are not getting past the initial application then it would be able to show this feedback for a particular job listing (giving it less credibility)
Some states require accepting cash.

https://yandex.com/search/touch/?text=states+with+law+must+a...

If they don't accept my cash that's their problem. not mine.
Ask HN: Should I Charge for the First Meeting to Ensure Skin in the Game?
I created https://kudwitt.com to help software CEOs and entrepreneurs navigate challenges and achieve growth. I decided to charge a nominal amount for the first meeting to ensure both parties are invested and serious. The idea is to weed out casual inquiries. What are your thoughts? Have you seen this approach work, or does it create unnecessary friction? I’m curious to hear about others’ experiences. Thank you.
> While the crowd here can maintain a domain

And domains can be lost too. Missed payments, error in administrating the domain, government takedowns. Many failure modes exist for domains too. Nothing in the digital world is permanent! That's why I find it disturbing that so much of our digital identities are tied to our email addresses.
Same. Honestly if they released a $200 a month plan I’d probably bite, but OpenAI hasn’t earned that level of confidence from me yet. They have some catching up to do.
I rebuild these things. I know the market.
There’s https://www.typingmind.com/ local-only (no server) and built by an indie dev
Maybe. It's very situational. Beyond the spreadsheets for a given location, there are times in your life when you want to be able to pickup and move fairly easily and there are times when you want to be able to put down roots and be in a pretty stable situation that lets you tailor things.
> But it sounds like the post is supposed to be a retrospective so its not surprising he isn't really talking about the future.

No, my specific point is that he does not sound like he needs to make hard choices, and he is alluding to continuing working on his own projects in the future. He writes:

> I made resolutions: to make $1M in revenue in 2025. Well, that's not really happening… But rest assured, I do everything possible to reach that goal rather sooner than later.

and

> blymp is the only one generating money — about $600/month — and the one I plan to continue next year. Yay!

and finishes with

> Here's to a promising year 2025. My third year without a job. A year when I give more than I receive. A year of patience. And a year of an even deeper connection with myself. Cheers!

And sure, people that make a high income job are privileged, but I was using it in the sense that you frequently see it used online, specifically that he has a backup pool of money/support somewhere, most likely family, that he conspicuously leaves out of his post.
> We never really hit the ceiling

The ceiling? I coded a Neural Networks engine in PureBasic! :D (And much, much, much much more.)

There's really no ceiling to hit.
Hope. Global diversity is collapsing in all the wrong ways. Hopefully they can repopulate their haplogroups and grow representation.

Next we need to tackle over growth in other countries.
Interesting idea. Good luck.
I'm not yet but thank you that is an interesting idea. Currently it is quite dumb and just looks for listings on each company website but in the future it would be nice to connect to workday or other such services
Microsoft teases Copilot Vision, the AI sidekick that judges your tabs
I don't see any components, just empty white squares.
brought the total to six so far in 2024, after 10 in 2023

With 25 days to go in the year, this is likely (hopefully) lower than 2023?
yes and companies basically are just paying that high price with a salary
Tons of these cases and quotes come from California because they have a goofy law where there is a list of approved guns (that get there by paying a fee) that, for some reason, police are exempt from. Police can legally buy an unapproved gun and then later decide to sell it to a Californian, legally. What they can't do is buy it with the intent to sell it but many do because the police also think the law is arbitrary and useless.
When the edge is less bugs in code bases which have much less contributers and which might need fast iteration due to adverserial environment, the ability to deploy with confidence might be a real advantage.
How are you all discussing this question from memory without linking to the source?

Poorly, that's how.

When faced with a hypothetical expense of $400, 63 percent of all adults in 2022 said they would have covered it exclusively using cash, savings, or a credit card paid off at the next statement (referred to, altogether, as "cash or its equivalent")

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2023-economic-we...).
Neuralink-style technology, while useful, strikes me as not the most interesting approach.

Ever since I saw an article from 2019 about a pig brain kept alive for 10h after death, I became obsessed with the idea of "brain externalization". In one sentence: why not dumping the body and connecting the brain to a computer directly through the nerves while on artificial support, instead of going through the hassle of invasively implanting wires on an embodied brain?

Compared to the gigantic complexity and chaos that a human brain is, nerves are not only simpler, but they are the route to everything going in and out of our perceptions of reality. This technology would be maximally invasive from the perspective of the body as a whole, but actually less invasive than Neuralink from the perspective of the brain itself, which is what matters - not only that, but think about it: what's easier to keep alive, a whole body, or just one organ? If a user of Neuralink has a kidney failure, he would be as good as gone, whereas an externalized brain would have a machine pumping artificial blood into it at forever optimal flow and composition. That brain might even live to 150 years, given that it would constantly exist in a perfect environment free of bad life habits, failing and aging organs, accidents, alcohol, pollutants, pathogens, and so on. Mega bonus: it would experience fully immersive, five senses virtual reality. Theses externalized brains could create a paradise world to live in and be whoever or whatever they wanted, so long as that creature's nerves mapped to some real existing nerve.

We need to develop only 2 key technologies to make this happen: nerve interfaces and artificial blood. The most that has been invested in nerve interfaces by any single institution, to my knowledge, is around 80 million USD, and 40 million for artificial blood. In 2022 alone, nearly $5.2 billion was invested in businesses centered around longevity, and brain externalization might just be the most overlooked longevity treatment. What could a cool 5 billion achieve in nerve interception and artificial blood research?
It’s not an exact figure, but plenty of employees claimed that after we train a model with 2-3 orders of magnitude of compute over GPT-4 we’d reach AGI, which puts us at $10-$100 billion.

See Situational Awareness for one example of this.
What is going on with the IT sector in Canada?

I'm a contractor and last year my agency said there would be layoffs, which caused quite a scare, but in the end only contractors residing in Canada were affected.
Does it still hold up, technology prediction wise?
Dazzle camouflage: benefits and problems revealed
If you want to invent crypto for irl conversations, OK sure. Go ahead. But the core of this issue is that people are getting spammed by robot dialers because digital identity in the context of a phone number is a figment of the FBI's imagination. Completely opaque to laypeople.
Do you think that a LLM/"AI" can reliably solve the merging problem?
The Python Programmer Practice Test
I’m able to get ahold of a human for support with all products I mentioned. I’m unable to get ahold of a human at Google ever for any of their consumer offerings. I see lots of HN threads begging for Google support, I see no HN threads begging for support from any of the companies I listed.

You should always have backups, regardless of provider.
Hard disagree. In his post he's talking about continuing on in his own projects, and about 2025 being essentially more of the same, except this time with no money and no significant stable income. There is other support somewhere he is simply not talking about, because he certainly doesn't mention being worried about paying his rent going forward.
There is no problem surviving for a young healthy man in Montreal. One can always uber, deliveroo, tend bars etc, and it pays pretty well. Nothing to freak out about.
I mean, I feel like we've made a lot of progress on "how to do a good job" that's valuable- we've learned a lot about the value of automated tests, how to write fast ones, how to manage changes, how to design languages and systems that prevent errors.

You go look at older companies shipping product.zip.3 files around from someone's desktop and then it all comes in to focus.
https://archive.is/p4H95
> There's something about the "Index Fund" approach that is really appealing

This is an approach I'm actively working on, although I haven't actively donated anywhere yet.
It's true that e.g. medications and alcohol can increase the risks for the child, but many people also have apnoea (often without knowing) which can also lead to sudden movements in your sleep.

The article says there's no socio-economic factors; the data says the risk is the same for all babies.

If you don't want to change your habits because of an article, that is fine, but people should be aware of the risk.

We use a co-sleeping bed next to the parents bed and the infant is just as close, but safer from harm
i would argue that isn’t a good trait in an employee either
I didn't make this software, but heard about it on another thread. I was saying
'there should be an app like an 'auto-RAG' that scrapes RSS feeds and URLs'
and be_erik wrote
'I do exactly this with hoarder. I passively build tagged knowledge bases with the archived pages and then feed it to a RAG setup.'

What does your setup look like?
"ChatGPT, please analyze every social media profile of the target and their family and produce an expected password."
Huh? I've done take-home problems and they've been fine. I'll take it 100% of the time over live coding.
There are both but the unlisted jobs are tagged as such. I thought about pulling the listed jobs but I think that is still valuable to the user
That's a hell of a lot of milieu control. Seems they are just trying to prevent an understanding and ultimately a blending of cultures and are effectively controlling language and therefore the people's world view.
Computer hardware is very fast now, so why does my computer lag noticeably on OS and browser operations? A facetious question, and perhaps it's not remotely a dealbreaker, but I expect better and would expect the same of my own software. I agree with GGP that too many people seem to take "premature optimization is the root of all evil" as "don't optimize until it's too late and then painstakingly get diminishing returns". There is a comfortable middle ground of the optimizing-delivering tradeoff that I think is wildly missed.
Just have to find someone else that’s unemployed? Or someone that doesn’t care? If there’s men that don’t care a woman is unemployed the reverse must be true too.
sounds like you interviewed for too easy a job, the anagram question you described would be significantly easier than interviews i have or give
> Are you saying that the same populations are getting more and more sick and ill? Citation needed for that. Or are they costing more and more money? And if so, why?

The citation is the population pyramid flattening out and turning upside down eventually. That means more and more old (and hence sick) people, and fewer and fewer care providers (young people). Also, there are a lot more treatment option, and sick people being kept alive longer.

> Wouldn't be health insurers setting up middlemen of their own (PBS, etc.) to get around legal caps on their own profit margins, would it?

No, absent enormous fraud, all revenue and expense is reflected on a company’s 10-K. UNH/Elevance/Cigna/Humana/CVS/etc all have multiple lines of business (like most other large businesses), but the final profit margin figures are what they are including all lines of business.

Thanks for the info on tail insurance, I didn’t know that.
Hmm, I was using it fairly heavily while going through a book which required loads of messing with graphs last year for a month maybe and I don't remember it acting up... Perhaps I got lucky? Is it known to be buggy, in general?
When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened
While they are nice, they don't block the event loop. That's definitely a feature you would need if you're aiming to replace `alert` and friends. As an alternative, yeah, that's a pretty reasonable API.
> Here's to a promising year 2025. My third year without a job. A year when I give more than I receive. A year of patience. And a year of an even deeper connection with myself.

He does talk about the future and seems to imply he’ll continue to not have a job.

If that’s the case, I’m with GP in wondering how he’s going to make it past January.
Why so many Americans prefer sprawl to walkable neighborhoods
Sure, that's costly for employers, but it's also costly for the candidates.

If you're planning to have N candidates do this when you only have 1 position, you're disrupting the others' lifes so much. It's like one of those chef competition shows. You better pay these people at least 6 months salary to show up for this.

Plus, do you really have the supervisory system in place to have N new hires and evaluate their impact after 1 month. Do you have the work for them to do? Or are they all going to independently work on the same project?

I ask a useless question in interviews, but asking every candidate the same question lets me calibrate the candidates as well as improve how I present the question so we can get to the problem solving and programming skills I want to see. Some questions are worse than others, and I hope mine is less worse; I've had several people tell me they enjoyed working on my question, although I also had a candidate refuse to work on it and ask for another question (which I didn't have, and I was the last interview of the day, so I returned the balance of his time and walked him out)
In the search bar you must add the option to search by company e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple etc.
> how gigantic $100 billion models are all you need for AGI and that it’s just a matter of time until we reach this scale. And if you didn’t see this you’re a simpleton who doesn’t understand how exponential curves work.

OpenAI made no such claim. LLM stans on the internet definitely made such claim, that the Stargate project would be AGI and whatnot. But, like crypto bros, GPT hyperfans are just constantly deluded/lying so you shouldn't project their claims onto the corporations they simp for.

That being said, Anthropic's CEO made a claim closer to what you're saying, that a 10-100 billion dollars model would be better than a human in almost every way.

https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/dol...
> Publishers know they cannot publish false information without spoiling their reputation.

How did that saying go? You sweet summer child...

Reputation doesn't matter. It hasn't mattered for a while. There's too much confusion, you can't get no relief, and there's definitely not enough time in a day to care.

Most non-fiction publishing either is, or is funded by, advertising industry. I.e. pathological liars. You better believe most of the stuff those people publish is intentionally at the very least bullshit (in the sense of not caring whether it's true or false -- see most content marketing), and a lot of it is plain lies.

ChatGPT gets confused and fabricates stuff as much as a person speaking whatever comes to their mind. But at the very least, it's not lying to you intentionally. Which is why it's, for now, useful as a bullshit filter for the rest of the Internet.
Just looking at emails: your choices are to trust someone else's domain -- likely gmail -- or own your own domain + some kind of forwarding or 3rd party mail service.

For gmail, you risk account lockout like OP is experiencing. You can mitigate the risk with more recovery options at account.google.com like backup codes.

For a service other than gmail, I think the risks of lockout without customer service to help might possibly be less., especially if its paid like fastmail. If you do pay you have the risk of not wanting to pay anymore, or forgetting to pay, and if you don't pay you also have the risk of the service going away. I suppose the service going away is ok.

I for one am pretty confident google will keep gmail running as well as possible, so I see other services as a bit more risk there.

If you own the domain, you have paid for it and risk someone stealing it or grabbing it when you forget to pay. You can mitigate the risk by choosing a registrar with good security, paying for a longer term or not forgetting, eg a quarterly reminder to review your domain names. You also need to be able to access your registrar account. You can choose registrars you get other services from, like AWS Route 53 if you use amazon for anything, or Cloudflare for VPN, and mitigate the risk of non-payment or non-access because access and payment will be done more frequently.

Using your own domain is also more moving parts, decisions, setup, etc. So you risk more things going wrong or fatigue over all the maintenance taking over. How you weigh the monetary and complexity cost of using a domain name for email compared to the upside of control, having a personal site at your own name, etc.
Title is kind of misleading. This is not scraper code you can use yourself. It is a pay job site.
How do employers fix being blasted with resumes from unqualified morons?
Just to clarify, I moved countries in the past, for the last year I've been in the same country for well over a year.
I think you read it right. It is in my mind a kind of wish casting that adding other modeling to LLMs can improve their use, but the ideas all sound like playing with your food at best, and deliberately confusing people to prey on their excitement at the worst.
Hehehe, you just described most normal people: a mortgage a family, cannot just wake up and say I am going all-in “this great idea”. Your idea is therefore only reachable for early age people or singles.
I am trying to revive a project I believe strongly which is kind of ready to sale, but I cannot get a damn 4 hours to seat down and look at it without being interrupted by life’s chores or just being too tired
Anyway I have similar fantasies to yours. It feels good to not be alone, both in circumstances as in fantasy.
Everything you can do in inputrc can be done in bashrc if you prepend "bind". In this case:

bind 'set enable-bracketed-paste on'
Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to your email address?
Hello HN! After a recent story about how someone lost access to their email address after using it for 10 years, I began thinking how I could prevent this kind of nightmare in my life. Some alternatives often suggested:

A. Pay for your email. Use Fastmail. But how do you guarantee that Fastmail won't screw you over someday? Get a lawyer! But how would the law work across countries? Not everybody lives in the US!

B. Buy a domain name and host your own email address. But you don't own domain names either. You rent them from someone else. There are so many failure modes that can make you lose your domain. Missed payment. Error in admining it. Fake abuse reports triggering takedowns. How can you avoid all of these failure modes? Get a laywer! But again, laws don't work very well when there are geographical boundaries.

So must we always buy a paid email service from our own country where if things go south, we can hire a laywer and rectify the matter? Must we always buy a ccTLD of our own country if we want to host our own email?
Doctors, lawyers, teachers and other licensed professionals do continuing education every two or three years. Software engineers are not licensed professionals, so there is no legal standard of quality that all software engineers are guaranteed to have met (and continue to meet). Hence, the interview is an assessment along with all other parts of the application.
Are you referring to me? What the hell do you mean lol

This is the closest thing you are going to get to say it to my face buddy on HN you are gonna get.