skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE

AI Simulation and Control Engineer: Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience (https://wellfound.com/l/2AUs7A)

Optimal builds AI agents to control the world’s critical infrastructure - from factories, to datacenters, to farms.

We are backed by the Director of AI Research at Google DeepMind as well as early VC investors in SpaceX, Anduril, and Palantir.

We have built the world’s most advanced AI control system for high-tech greenhouses and have just signed out first customer contracts in North America and Europe having proven the performance of our AI across 3 seasons in our own demonstration greenhouse.

david@optimal.ag

https://www.optimal.ag
It lives on everywhere! Lots of labs working on it in the US, we started a clinical trial in Australia called Phage Australia.

As the other post says, it's effective but cost prohibitive at scale, and biologics are a pain. It'll get here, but we need way better tools to lower the costs.
If you're simulating a complex CPU's HDL in Verilator then think in terms of single digit thousands of instructions per second. Vs single digit billions of instructions per second when it's made into an SoC.

i.e. on the order of a million times slower than the final product.

On an FPGA you might get 20 to 50 million instructions per second, only 100 times slower than the final SoC product. But for a large modern OoO design you'll need an FPGA costing $15000 (for a VCU118) or even more.
You‘ll get a huge performance boost though when it finally comes out
GitHub is more like a public cemetery
It's not pathetic, it's destructive and evil.
This is really great insight; thanks for sharing.

China is another country that has developed its own local apps, mainly because many global ones are banned there. Even if Google, Uber, and others had free rein, I don’t think they could compete with the existing options. The local apps are so tuned to Chinese culture, an American app just wouldn't be intuitive to them.

Do you think the local apps, aside from dating, are better than their U.S. counterparts, or is it mainly due to their strong local momentum? Could the Western apps compete in that market? It sounds like Uber is making some inroads.
You could create an alternative, OPML version of the page, which is/was specifically for blogrolls :)
Because then you have to litigate a nebulous definition of nuisance, which is expensive and time consuming. Number of people is clear and easy to litigate.
I went back to my family for this christmas, and argued about privacy, I think it was about free email services again, and stuff likes this. And again - I just cannot understand it - the response was:

Yeah but I don't care, I have nothing to hide, let them have my data.

It's a slap in the face of me, trying to meticulously remove all internet access of programs and devices that don't need it, and moving from all free and not-privacy-friendly services to mostly paid and private-friendly ones - probably "losing" a big chunk of my lifetime doing this. I feel paranoid sometimes, when I hear this argument.
This isn't a landlord / tenant device. It's for AirBnB hosts.
The limit could depend on a lot of other things. In theory, it's possible that you are paying 100% of revenue on debt service yet still the best option is to take on more debt. This is if you believe that investing the money raised via additional debt provides returns that outweigh the increase in debt service costs. So in that situation, additional debt can even lower the debt service / income ratio.

So this is meant to illustrate that the limit on debt is more a function of the concrete circumstances. In this line of argumentation, debt is not limited by a mathematical formula that just takes GDP and similar statistics as input.
That's still too small for the average camel.
There are two ways we can go from "copyright for me, no copyright for thee"

We can force it to "copyright for me, copyright for thee" by injecting AI poison and by not sharing at all. See Nightshade.

Or we can force it to "no copyright for me, no copyright for thee" by ignoring their copyright just like they ignore ours, and making sure they don't find us. See Anna's Archive.
Funny how we have gone back to web directories
One thing I see over and over again is that those with lower moral standards often seem to prosper. The saying cheaters never prosper has never seemed to hold true from what I have seen. Still I hold myself to a high standard in life even if I could get away with something I believe in morals. If I find a wallet I return it with all it's cash. Sadly if you have no morals you take the cash and come out ahead. My son last year had $900 in his wallet and dropped it. Returned with no money. I could never do that as I would be thinking that is someones rent money or bills or food for their family. The person with low morals however gets a new ps5 and some games or whatever else they wanted. I can only hope the person who took it was in a worse situation and paid their rent or something. Thankfully my son only learned a hard lesson and was not without food or rent or anything.
claude within cursor.
They claim on the website that their product is GDPR compliant. They aren't collecting any personally identifiable data.
Fully agree, and my first association was the "Men Will Do Everything But Go to Therapy" meme.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

There are also Tor hidden services, where the dependency on lower layers still exists but they can't find which is yours.
Chip-8 Emulation Introduction
Ask HN - let's say hypothetically, our phones are as bad as some think. Face camera taking covert pics, regular screenshots sent back home, microphone recording every conversation, every message, email, and bit of internet traffic scraped and harvested for ads and anything else - how would you change your habits if you knew this was happening?

Answer - you wouldn't.
https://github.com/blogscroll/blogscroll/issues/198

Opened an issue to track and implement. Thank you for the suggestion!
What I've learned, both in terms of personal experience and from reading up on the psychology, is that to maximize happiness over time you need to optimize for ensuring you can maintain a steady upward trajectory.

Win the lottery or sell a company? Invest most of it, and allow yourself a "raise" you can permanently sustain every year.

It will do far more for you than raising your expenditure once, as you get used to it and return to near your baseline happiness very quickly.
I'm with the other commenters on this issue. Stars are good enough as a marker, since you can use other markers (like # of contributors and recent commits) to make your own mind regarding quality of a repo.
Ask HN: Why there's no Emacs paid support providers?
Why is there no company charging for Emacs support/customization services? Resulting in a not-so-emacs product should be OK. That product can gradually scale up but is still based on Emacs.
> I just find it very unlikely that you really have two candidates who appear equal after 10 minutes of talking to them.

We're talking about a cover letter, no one's been talked to yet. The HM has 100+ candidates who have done web applications with Python or whatever qualifies one for said job, and literally doesn't have time to talk to them all. They also can't ask them random clarifying questions about their life. There's 2 data points, cover letter and resume.

I suggested two ways to make your cover letter more than a rehash of your resume and your latching onto one of them.

Here's the thing: you'll notice in my example I didn't suggest you write "I'm deeply passionate about food brokering" (an actual company I've hired software engineers for). That's not likely to move the needle, it obviously nonsense (Even the owner is didn't meet that description), and much like saying "I've got a deep mastery of Python" it's just empty words without something backing it.

Instead I suggested learning about what the company does, thinking about what the job entails beyond just "writing software according to the tickets" and what it actually accomplishes and expressing what about that interests you.

Is that person's interest going to end up exaggerated? Sure probably. But they're actually interested enough to put in the effort to think through that, and that effort, like it or not is a signal. Even the most pessimistic view means at least they were willing to work harder at it.

But look, maybe your applying at a subprime lender or something equally parasitic and are either so desperate that your doing it anyway or just cynical enough to not care, yet still have some moralistic hangup about this. Then don't. I suggested other things you can bring to your cover letter that don't fit on a resume. But if you make your cover letter your resume but in paragraph form (which is all the AI can do, since that's the only data it has), then you've reduced those data points the manager has to decide if your worth talking to from 2 down to 1. You might as well have skipped the cover letter entirely and at least saved them some time. (Actually that's not true, because often a cover letter is expected and they'll ding you for not having it, but including a bullshit rephrasing of your resume for that reason is no less performative than the expression of interest your already bothered by)
So poor Thomas was a victim of nominative determinism?
There are currently two references to “Mangion-ing” OpenAI board members in this thread, several more from Reddit, based on the falsehoods being perpetrated by the author. Is this really someone you want to conspire with? Is calling this out more egregious than the witch hunt being organized here?
Toure really contributing to the problem here. Hearing people complaining about the state of the world is stressful for everyone and causes people to isolate even more.

I recommend to be constructive and make actionable recommendations, and have a positive tone. I know it’s not easy in the current state of affairs though.

“ stop constructing a society where ….” really doesn’t tell anyone what you think we should do.

And I agree with you btw, I think the root cause is, we have anonymised too much, revenue is the only thing that matters, because before that, there were things like traditions, shame, ethic, etc. but they went all out the window when money making became possible anonymously via funds, VCs, etc. You can switch to child labor to save 0.1% margin because, guess what, no one is responsible anymore: the shareholders, these anonymous mass, want it.
As old UNIX hat, what is that missing?

After my "UNIX is cool, lets configure everything" phase, which lags behind in the 1990's decade, xterm or anything like it, is more than enough.

I don't need fancy stuff for a bunch of CLI commands.
I wonder if it's smart enough to detect if the neighbour is having a party or if people will start to get bogus Airbnb complaints from properties with these devices.
I thought there was a separate wifi scanning setting for that behavior?
The insidious part of networking is that you cannot be on a network without agreeing with everyone else on the network. It's simply not possible.
Fair point - I will add that as a clarification, thank you for calling it out.
Very cool! As someone else mentioned already, OPML export would be cool, especially if it’s per category (personal, design/ux, etc.)

I also curate a list of blogs as part of my blog discovery/search engine/reader project: https://minifeed.net/blogs
What research there is suggests money/happiness follows a log-linear relationship.[1] So it kind of does buy happiness, but the rate of increase falls off pretty fast over the range most of us experience.

1: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2208661120
I've been in sales for a while and in my opinion, speaking to experienced sales people about the things you want to sell is an amazing eye opener. I don't know how many times I've explained a person's product to them and they have a mini epiphany as they never saw it that way before.

In my experience, many product makers who describe themselves as being bad at sales just can't get their head out of their own view point. So even speaking to a person who is just marginally above average at sales and describes it as an outsider can really shift their way of thinking. The customer may not use the product in the exact way you think they will when you made it. Having the benefit of seeing how others see your product will put you on the same footing when you pitch it to them.

Also, find a way of presenting that fits your personality. I'm pretty mater of fact and my sales pitch has always been sort like "we have some cool stuff for sale, you use some of the exact kind of stuff we sell, let's talk about whether our stuff would be good for you." Then I just ask them questions. Sales people have the (deserved) stereotype of blathering on about their product or service and being tone deaf to whether it's a good fit or not. I ask and I ask. People will talk about themselves quite a bit and in my mind, I am taking notes on what may be a good fit for them and what might not be.

Eventually, they've run out of things to talk about and I'll start talking about what I think they should look at and why. That brings me around to another thing--fitting in. I have no problem telling people if one of our offerings is not something they should consider. I don't want to force something on someone, when they are smart enough to know it isn't right for them. Cajoling someone into a sale that isn't a great fit just leads to problems after the sale, then I'm putting out fire with them when I should be selling to others. Not only does it build trust with the customer to pass on things, but it's just the right thing to do.

Think of yourself not as a salesperson, but as a problem solver. If they have a business problem your product can solve, tell them.

Good luck and I hope this helps!
Also who writes the plan is completely disconnected from reality, so the plan is completely useless.
Cambridge study aims to find out if dogs and their owners are on same wavelength
Carbon dioxide* detectors, people don’t produce carbon monoxide
great job and great writinng! one of the most beautify synths!
Look on youtube running various models and even a 70b model does a slow 3tok/s
I’ve hired dozens of smart Americans with the right degree and willingness to learn and I was not even American myself. I worked with hundreds more. Not sure what you’re talking about.
Just an essay in ego-bashing and showing off. While I don’t deny the author is self-made, highly successful for his age and ultra-rich, this essay is just an attempt to stroke his ego.

It’s evident in the paragraph below where he said he’s leaving DOGE to “save our government”. The writer lacks clarity and coherence of thought. How exactly is he saving the government after his DOGE stint?

>>So, after 4 intense and intoxicating weeks, I called off my plans to move to DC and embark on a journey to save our government with some of the smartest people I’ve ever met. And I booked a 1-way ticket to Hawaii.

Studying physics in the jungle, focusing on my insecurities

So now I’m in Hawaii. I’m learning physics. Why? The reason I tell myself is to build up my first principles foundation so I can start a company that manufactures real world things. It seems plausible, but I’m learning to just accept that I am happy learning physics. That’s the goal in and of itself.
Phones randomize mac addresses so that probably wouldn't work. Presumably you can get a read on how many devices are scanning at once, but not track them long term.
We were talking about criminal penalties.
I used Carvana for the first time this past year and found the experience very good as a buyer.

The price was reasonable for what I bought, they delivered the car directly to my place and handled all of the registration in CA (came with dealer plates, and the CA DMV paperwork and plates arrived in the mail within weeks).

It may be a terrible place to invest (I have no actual opinion on this, I'm just commenting based on the contents of the linked report) but I have no complaints about them as a customer.
I do something similar and I use Hammerspoon (with kitty in my case). It’s a hell of a tool!
Ah, nice!

Yeah, I really like Scryer, it's been my goto Prolog for quite some time.

You wouldn't know a way to get it working under Termux on Android? I tried to build it a while back but got inscrutable compiler errors and didn't follow through. Maybe building Trealla would be easier, since it's implemented in C.

I'm also enjoying http://tau-prolog.org/.
Disabling WiFi on many phones doesn't actually disable wifi scanning - shopping centres use this to track recurring visits
Yes: that's what Loper Bright does. In the absence of explicit statutory language to the contrary, the FCC can no longer assert its interpretation of the spirit of a law about allowing RBOCs to once again provide local POTS phone service as a broad mandate to regulate the Internet.
So you see the point that governance on the level of the EU is needed! The current lawmaking process on the EU level is still too convoluted and there were some minor reforms already to straighten it out a little. If we keep honing it, we'll eventually get a fine government structure at that level that works.

I feel this discussion thread has run its course. I said what I want to say and anything more would be pointless repetition.
Have you ever written anything as introspective as this post, particularly about your own personal shortcomings in a public forum? He seems to still have ego in some sectors of life - as don't we all - but most of the blog was incredibly reflective and self-critical. Can you say you've endeavored to do the same?
Please give me feedback on my new music discovery app
I recently built and released an app called Solance that is essentally a social media app for music sharing and discovery. You invite and follow your friends on the app and then in your feed you see what songs they have been listening to recently in your Solance feed. You can then interact by liking and commenting on songs, and also saving them to your Spotify. I would love some people to try it out and offer any feedback or criticisms they have! It would help a lot! The website is https://solance.app
If you are on Android there are ways to ditch Google altogether.

For instance, I am perfectly sure that my phone is not listening on me. Also, I see no ads whatsoever.

See:

- https://lineageos.org

- https://microg.org

- https://adaway.org (or similar)
>Also CORS and SOP can be bypassed: https://dev.to/pssingh21/websockets-bypassing-sop-cors-5ajm

Like I said, you can reimplement SOP by checking that the Origin header equals the Host header. Or alternatively check them against an allowlist. It's just a couple lines of code, and then it's as secure as normal HTTP.

https://dev.to/pssingh21/websockets-bypassing-sop-cors-5ajm

That article contains a confusing quote:

>The initial handshake occurs via HTTP Upgrade request, the response body is disregarded and the HTTP/HTTPS protocol is upgraded to WS/WSS protocol.

But the response body isn't disregarded. What could best be described as the response body is the server->client websocket messages. Those aren't disregarded.

>Even very experienced teams make mistake with this kind of things. See for instance, this Kubernetes vulnerability: https://goteleport.com/blog/kubernetes-websocket-upgrade-sec...

Thanks, that's an interesting vulnerability. I'm not so sure it's websocket-specific though. It looks like the attack could be done without websockets at all. The end request that does the malicious action is plain HTTP. The initial request that triggers the desync uses a Connection: Upgrade header, which is used in websockets, but isn't actually websocket-specific. Connection: Upgrade was created in RFC 2616 from 1999, which was before the websocket RFC 6455 in 2011.

The vulnerability was there was a proxy, and the proxy didn't properly handle the Connection header as specified in RFC 2616. RFC 2616 says that a proxy must remove the Connection header if it's not handling it itself, and the proxy in this case wasn't handling it itself (not checking for 101 response).

I would say this vulnerability is an HTTP request smuggling vulnerability. That's a vulnerability where there's a proxy that implements some type of security, and the proxy can be tricked into sending a request to the backend that the proxy didn't actually parse. HTTP request smuggling vulnerabilities impact regular HTTP, not just websockets. This has nothing to do with the Same Origin Policy.

https://portswigger.net/web-security/request-smuggling

https://portswigger.net/research/http-desync-attacks-request...
Some are examples of good design ideas.
Don't Clobber the Frame Pointer
A TikTok Ban Looms. Creators Say They'll Believe It When They See It
Webrings are also seeing some revival. Seems that actual curation by actual human beings is better than algorithmic or "AI" slop.
Cloudflare's VPN app among half-dozen pulled from Indian app stores
This lacks context.
I understand what you're saying. I even agree with it: I think, in 2025, that is clearly a more sensible target for legislation†; that's what I'd expect a court to say those words meant, if they were written today. But they weren't written today. They were written in 1996, in the context of a bill deregulating local POTS phone service, and the 1996 context is the one the statute will be read in --- especially since the statute doesn't explicitly authorize any of what the FCC purported to do here!

One reason I'm pretty confident with my argument here is that I'm simply restating what the appeals court decision actually says; as passionately as you might want to argue to the contrary, the FCC's interpretation of the statute has been overturned. The Supreme Court seems extremely unlikely to pick this up, not least since the court already ruled in this direction in Brand X.

† Not that I think that would be good legislation! I think all of this is a bit silly.
Not everyone listens to ‘don’t get high on your own supply’. In fact, it’s pretty rare.
You cannot relate to describing someone’s subjective opinion as blatantly false?

Teslas may be bought across the spectrum, none of that is remotely relevant.

Tesla owners are often insufferable to listen to as they go on and on about their cars, like they make vegans seem a treat by comparison, that alone may dissuade people - I know it does for me.
Palantir has made corporate orthodoxy out of experimental theater improv (2016)
I use a mix of cymbals, also Zildjian, and the last years I've moved more to Istanbul cymbals but did not know this part of history and the connection the craft had to the old city. It is not surprising, though. Istanbul has a history as a cultural center since the Roman empire and before, holding its position long after Rome fell. It is one of my favorite cities in the world because of the mix of cultures across crafts and arts, and people - also within music. It's role in the cymbal and drum making history just adds to my impression. Istanbul unfortunately currently is a shadow of what it was, after many years of Erdogan and his followers' efforts to make Turkey less liberal and secular. I do hope history will show that this will turn, and that Istanbul will continue to be a metropol of blended cultures and creativity.
I won’t forget.
If this parasitic nonsense technology ever turns against us Stasi-style we're gonna wish the ads back.