skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies don't need to favor one group against another, they just need to make the process artificially hard, so they'll have the excuse that there are not enough workers ready to fill those positions.
Well we do take actions i.e.
https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2024/07/10/...
Literally killing millions of livestock to isolate the spread.
Not to say there aren't better ways.
Life finds a way. It's hard.
Why is this post so heavily downvoted? Oh wait, I guess this really hit a nerve:

> For how "meritocratic" HN claims to be, they are totally fine with basically eliminating all competition in their own job sphere.
You might be right, but if u see the real situation Indian manager prefers Indian worker mostly. And it is mostly 2-3 states, not every states.
Copilot is basically just autocomplete for code with a ChatWindow on the side.

Cursor has that, but also other modalities. It also just has a better UX for the core shared experience. Cursor also has their own models they mix with APIs to big well known models.

For example…

1. Cursor’s chat window generates patches (multi line, multi file, non contiguous) that can be directly applied to the file editor with a click, instead of requiring you to copy/paste the chat results. It lets you apply parts of the patches too.

2. Cursor supports multi-line changes (which show up as auto-complete), where the lines aren’t contiguous. For example, if you rename a field in a class, the AI will propose a rename for the Getter/Setter methods, as well as all the uses of said field/method. It’s like all the familiar refactoring tools available in IDEs, but AI powered so it operates “fuzzy matching”

3. Building off 2, they will use AI to move your cursor around (it’s not intrusive).

4. Cursor supports BYO keys for OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, etc. They host their own model which you’d need to pay to access though.

5. They support AI autocomplete and conversation in the command line. Helpful for remembering commands or if you need to change a command to test some change you’d made.

There might be more but this is what sticks out.
If you're gonna name famous people, there's already an O-1 visa program for that.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
Hi,
How can I get in touch with your hiring department?
I gave one episode a listen and can now say it's not what you described. They conveyed actual scholarship but kept it light-hearted. Religious fundamentalists might not like it because it doesn't start from the assumption that the canonical Bible is inerrant, but for anyone who wants to learn about the Bible from an open-minded viewpoint, I think it's worth a listen.
That’s amazing!

Hats off to you for getting as far as you have, and don’t sweat the stuff you haven’t been able to get to yet. Nobody (hopefully) expects you to freely share the code you write in any sort of expected time frame.

These things take as long as they take :)
Most products can be built with mediocre talent. But no one actively goes after mediocre talent. And yes, startups are more sensitive to this, I really had to let go mediocre people because it affects everything. Throwing meat at the problem for long enough time really screws up the product. Even at a very large company that I worked for, innovation ground to halt after a decade of this thinking, because systems that started simple enough, got complex over time in part because of market and primarily because of mediocrity. Adding things became a nightmare, because we threw meat at problems for a long time.

Maybe what you say has worked for your situations, but it really never worked for me over my experience, and it just was a downward spiral over time every single time.
Even well-funded and widely-supported notions, projects, and institutions prove to be mere facades when we demand evidence and verifiable predictability.

So to actually be provocative, I suggest that we set aside theoretical economic constructs and mention the hypothesis of Democracy itself.

Government itself becomes the consensus of the wealthy. And for any lesser hysteria, we can consider the uncomfortable lessons described in "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". [1]

[1] _ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm
How is the use case being sabotaged? They actively advertise that
Disney's Animatronics: A Living History [video]
Ok, but ironically the article does explain by a comparison of two alternatives just how to measure productivity—-solving problems most efficiently (least amount of maintainable code).
Some people hold their head at an angle and confuse one for the other.
It's not at all about doing hard things. It's simply the number of things to be done and how they interact with each other. You are absolutely right that these are technically not hard problems, but they're still hard design problems that keep changing very frequently
At the risk of belaboring the obvious:

1. Harder to reverse the transfer

2. Harder to trace the transfer to a prosecutable human identity

That said, the article mentions at least one guardrail in the crypto-ecosystem:

> But when the thieves tried to move $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency out of his account, Coinbase sent an email stating that the account had been locked, and that he would have to submit additional verification documents before he could do anything with it.
In my experience roles at companies like this in the southeast US pay around $120k for senior engineers, probably a bit more for management. Not sure if you consider that peanuts, but it’s significantly less than Meta.
I know, right?

> So you don't need to worry about functions floating around in a global namespace soup.

Because having classes floating around in a global namespace soup is fundamentally different and should give no worries to anyone. Yet this was argument made in earnest back when arguments about Java's strengths and weaknesses were much more popular.
NetBSD 10.1 (Dec 16, 2024)
EB-5 is a onetime payment for a green card (permanent residence). Prevailing wage must be paid every year and you have 60 days to leave when you the company stops paying you.
what did i just witness....
There are definitely sects that take the job much more seriously than others. I personally have known too many that basically end up coordinating a group of volunteer assistant pastors and deacons to nearly all of the work. Frequent month-long vacations as well (they're called "sabbaticles" because it sounds biblical).

They also frequently run into some moral scandal (plagiarism, adultery, theft), plead for forgiveness (because reporting them to the denomination heads would leave them jobless), and then move states to repeat the playbook elsewhere.

Some of the kindest, most thoughtful people I've met were pastors too, though, so I won't say that the entire profession is evil. The monetary and social status incentives that the position grants also attracts some of the worst people, though.
And how you going to enforce this?
Love amp <3
https://www.reddit.com/r/economicCollapse/comments/1hgghdb/f...
Yes who should we trust here when it comes to data collection. Apple or Meta.

According to Apple they are asking for effectively everything on the device e.g. all photos, emails, messages, passwords. Far beyond what is needed for WhatsApp etc to work but would be game changing for their ad and AI platforms.

And plenty do let us know when Apple has used our own data to exploit us like Meta has.
Lots of custom logic

* Limit user to 15m a month
* Greetings unique to user state

It also needs access to Model/DB etc… which is all not exposable to internet
Sure there is. It's a ratio of inputs to outputs.. even in the example the inputs and outputs are measurable.

The only thing this article gets at is that engineers may not know how to calculate their own productivity; but it doesn't means it's not calculable.
Lottery only applies for initial employment, not for renewals.

Most physicists and biologists and geologists work in universities or labs or other institutions, which are cap-exempt anyway and don't go through the lottery.
I wonder how long would Mandarin take to replace English as default second language worldwide, if they adopted a phonetic alphabet as standard to ease people onboarding.
Institutional Data Initiative
> I wonder if any of the big companies will pull out of the EU over DMA or future legislation. It seems each of the big tech companies have started to get a grumpy with being pushed to make crazy changes by the EU.

Luckily we don’t need to guess because the equation is simple. Does the risk/reward increase or decrease shareholder value. EU regulators know this, too.

To date the equation has balanced out.

The biggest risk is where the EU forces big tech in ways that impact their non-EU business. I think the equation changes if things boil over to a point where complying with EU law threatens their business outside of the EU.
I don't think anyone is saying wait for the perfect candidate. No one is perfect and no one checks all the boxes. That would be a fool's errand. But most good engineers can differentiate between a good (not superstar) engineer and a mediocre/bad engineer in a couple of conversations. I really have not seen anyone optimize for a mediocre candidate, nor for a superstar. Superstars come by with luck or with tons of incentives (money, stock, tech or whatever is their itch).
Curious re: "linear algebra".

What kind of understanding is needed? A basic understanding? It's a vast and unending subject.

And there are well known software apps that do linear algebra these days. Do you folks use a particular software to do it?

Engineering Technician: what does an hour in the life of such work look like?

Thanks.
It seems testable in the sense that you could train a small model, like GPT-2, on the whole dataset, then on the dataset - Shakespeare and compare the loss after training.
This is me too. Windsurf feels perfect right now.
You do realise that Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc are thriving today without these permissions.

And the problem with companies like Meta is that their terms of service are so complex and indecipherable that it’s almost a certainty you will approve giving them photos to share with friends and then turn around and use it for ads.
It's called "saying your goodbyes". In the UK and elsewhere it can take a while ...
Everything a company does must be "after profits" if you lose money on everything you do then you aren't running a company you are running (poorly I might add) a charity.

First it has to be profitable, then it has to be useful to the customer.
I agree, but not to the exclusion of the staff officers.
I wouldn't be surprised if applications permanently show a notification "you haven't granted us access to X", and restrict functionality until you do. E.g.:

- Telegram permanently shows an in-app notification if you haven't granted access to all your contacts.

- WhatsApp won't show nicknames in your conversation list or individual conversations if you haven't granted access to all your contacts (the nicknames are visible in some other screen, so this isn't a case of missing data).

The user will get to decide, but the user won't get to decide _freely_. Some other annoyance will be introduced until you decide to grant all the access they demand.
As a dev working with designers who have embraced the Figma token generation, I have to say the whole effort seems ill-conceived.

The sheer amount of problems faced with tokens going missing, unclear rationales, endless updates and follow-up, coordination, etc makes me yearn for days where designers dropped a design file and devs figured out if tokenizing made sense.

Plus, tokens are only as good as the deeper design decisions, but that abstraction always has consequences. Not to mention the performance impact of css vars.

Again, it feels as if the idea has been stretched so designers can change code tokens at will, but to do this would require an insane amount of tokenization that in a sufficiently large code base would become unmanageable. Our latest token count is nearing 5k unique tokens, and that only covers maybe 2% of custom css we have to use to achieve the desired outcome. For me, it’s a net negative.
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
only since 2017 :) people basically judge java based on what you learn in AP CS which is basically (a dumbed down version of) java 6 (released 2006).
Taking advantage of the system !!
All true. Although I meant all the observations I’ve noted here - namely the light pattern coupled with not being far enough to be silent if a plane (sure distance is extremely iffy at night but one can tell if a plane is six miles up or one without needing to know it’s exact size).

You’re right that my interpretation in the end will be heavily influenced by my expectations, but unless I completely hallucinated the light pattern or gained temporary telescopic vision such that I saw each nav light separated by multiple visual-field-feet (if that makes any sense) on a plane at cruising altitude, I just can’t think of any explanation that fits better than drone.
I'm curious, if you're using lit-html, why not use LitElement as well if you're building web components?
The reason why foreigners get those degrees is because it's a way for them to stay in the USA longer. I have a friend who didn't win a renewal for their H1B and they signed up for a master's program and applied for a different VISA. So yeah, some foreigners get them because their hands are forced.
I hate leet code and it's ilk, and I don't want anyone to go through that useless stuff. But I believe a good engineer can suss out another good engineer in a conversation or two. At least that has been my experience with people I have hired and people those people have hired.

When you hire anyone, there is always some bar of "good enough". It is different for different orgs and even people, but it is there. Otherwise you'd end up hiring the first candidate you encounter, no?
ASN.1 DER, BER, or OER? Implicit and optional can really break compat in surprising ways. Then there are the machine unfriendly roster of available types. XDR was more tuned for that.

Finally free tooling doesn't really exist. The connection to the OSI model also didn't help.
It's sad how PR-dized that post feels. It's also sad how the issue being covered is only a big deal because Firefox's market share is abysmal, and as such, getting to be the default search engine isn't that valuable without extra incentives like Google has.

I think the terrible administration from the previous CEO destroyed any chances of Firefox to remain capable of funding itself.

Most of their other attempts of monetization were often at odds with their own user base. As time passes, those attempts are less and less likely to work, as the user base gets smaller. The remaining users are likely only staying because of certain privacy-focused features (like tab Containers) or because uBlock Origin works best with Firefox. And I believe those people don't trust Mozilla to spend donated money wisely...

If anything, modern Firefox is a cool browser, and some interesting forks like Floorp do exist.
is this framework publicly available anywhere?

I've been thinking about making my own lit-html + honojs isomorphic "framework" and would love some inspiration.
This is missing the forest for the trees. Phishing attacks won't ask you to reset your passkey - or if they do, they'll have to be much more complicated and targeted. This will dramatically reduce the attack surface threatening the vast majority of users.
They're probably located way out in the sticks too. Who wants to pack up all their stuff and sell their house and move to the rural deep South for a job that may or may not work out long-term? And if it doesn't work out, they now have to sell the house they bought there (because there's nothing decent in that area on the rental market) and move cross-country yet again?
It's for the cv and getting hired through the tech stack. Most hope to become next fastapi
the problem is that software does not directly produce value, it is a way to place a bet on what will be valuable
Apple likes their platforms locked down tight. Arguably this has benefits for the users both in terms of privacy/security and in terms of UX, but it does definitely come with a bunch of costs (not least of which the 30% cut from the App Store). I think describing those costs as "exploitation" is excessive, but it's not completely unreasonable.

Given that context, Meta being unreasonable in what they ask for proves Apple's point that having things locked down benefits their users. While true in this instance, it's also a convenient excuse to justify retaining the level of control they want.

For the record, I do agree with you: Apple's investment in on-device AI tools, their history of not training Siri using user data, etc are clear examples of them actually acting on the values they advertise on. Even if it's a cynical marketing-driven decision, they're still acting on it.
> outside of their core competency

I don't mean to point a finger at you, but this term is basically a weasel term at this point... because the "core competency" grows as large as necessary for these companies to complain that they cannot find qualified candidates. In truth, they are not willing to train people missing some skills at the fringe. The original post from someone who works on satellite tech (surely dual-purpose to create killer robots, or whatever) decided to throw into the "core competency" mix that good/solid linear algebra was required. What a farce. I am sure that less than 1% of their work requires it. You can just have one PhD on the wider team that writes all that codes... well, sketches it out, then everyone else integrates it or refines it.
What a great answer for a fascinating subject.
I know that one of the few apps on my phone which doesn't use Apple's newer photo access API (which only shares the photos you pick with Apple by default) is not used by WhatsApp, even though it is available.
It feels like there should be a user option to allow (default deny) this. Like it doesn’t have to be that the minute you install WhatsApp it gets access to all of your texts or calls. But it sucks to be stuck w iMessage when that’s just locking me into apples ecosystem
Planes over N.J. hit by lasers as hunt for drones continues
Here is the CDC statement:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/m1218-h5n1-flu.html
Ask HN: How do I keep up with work?
Hey guys

I’m having a hard time keeping up with expectations at my job. I’ve been at a company for 3 years and last year we had a new manager who started keeping metrics.

Some of the metrics include how fast turn around times are and comments on MRs.

Our tickets are expected to be done in 3 days and we don’t do sizing or anything. We manage about 10 services not including the infrastructure which we also manage.

I also get a lot of comments on my MRs about minor issues like spacing or formatting which only my tech lead cares about. Unfortunately my manager considered this as a bad thing.

We do everything from infrastructure to front end. This year my fiancé has been sick and I’ve kind of been unable to keep up with expectations. I’m considered a low performer along with 3/4ths of my team. We’re a 4 man engineering team.

It seems like I can’t reasonably meet expectations but the job market is so bad I don’t think I’d survive.

I have a small software company I built for fun with 4,000 users but it’s not making money for me to live on.

Is it even possible to get a job without a referral in this market? I plan on riding it out until I get fired or the market gets better (it won’t). Are these expectations unrealistic?

Shameless plug for my comic collection app:

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It's important to remember that the sabbath was a gift to man from God per Jesus

Mark 2:27 NIV
[27] Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
Show HN: Habit Rewards – A Gamified Habit Tracking with Clean Design
I built Habit Rewards, a habit tracker app designed to make building habits more enjoyable through gamification and a clean, minimalist design.

The app allows you to:

- Track daily/weekly/monthly habits.

- Earn virtual coins for completing habits.

- Set personalized rewards for achieving goals.

- View progress through beautiful tile-based grids

- Mark habits as failed intentionally, so the tracking remains realistic.

The goal was to create something simple but engaging to help with consistency. It's built with FlutterFlow and Firebase, and the app is live on the App Store.

I’d appreciate any feedback or thoughts, especially if you’ve worked on similar projects or have ideas to improve it.

Thanks!
I recommend Michael Levin’s YouTube channel. Lots and lots of fascinating discussions.
This looks awesome. As someone working in support for a wide array of Linux Apps, and data dumps from customers where I have no access to the system, plus I also write or backport bug fixes to all sorts of random software, I often want to do this kind of crazy stuff. With exactly these kinds of artefacts.
> This might be a boon to AirTag stalkers who are too lazy or unskilled to disable the sound and upgrade the battery life.

What a nonsensical fear to have.
Show HN: Send Santa a Voice Note
Hey everyone, Shaun here!

I originally built Magic Message Santa for my kids. They wrote Santa a letter with their Christmas wishes (like we've all done in the past) and I thought, “What if we could send Santa a voice note instead? How cool would that be!”

I knew AI was great at transcribing voice notes, but I wasn’t sure if voice generation was there yet. After some initial testing, we were genuinely amazed by the results, it felt like magic! So, I named it and opened it up to the public.

Hope you and your kids enjoy the experience as much as we do!

Would love to hear your thoughts or answer any questions you might have. Have a Merry Christmas!
> Looks like your managers don't know who they need to hire or don't want to really hire.

It's prevalent in government-adjacent companies. It's all a completely opaque byzantine system to mask the nepotism and the fact that a lot of those people just siphon money from the government like it's a jobs programs.

Not to mention that their application systems are usually complete garbage like Workday or Taleo.
No, Elon Musk saw that the Democrats were advocating tightening regulations on rocket launches and AI, and promoting competition for EVs, which would be bad for his companies. He saw an opportunity to influence the rules for EVs and rocket launches by working with the Trump administration, and he took it. Democrats were once the advocates for EVs who could help him, so he supported them. Now that he no longer needs their help, he has switched sides. Musk is able to see opportunities and take advantage of them, which is why he is the richest man in the world. He now has the money, the loudspeaker (X.com), and the President's ear to make his own rules.
ScyllaDB – Why We're Moving to a Source Available License
Here's one example. Apple has locked down the API for replying to a text message on an iPhone using a smart watch to only their own Apple Watch. Competing smart watches like Garmin or Suunto aren't allowed to build similar functionality. This is a naked abuse of market power for product tying, exactly the type of behavior that got Microsoft in trouble with US antitrust authorities years ago.

Android phones have no such artificial limitation.