skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most of us, at least most males, can recall things we did as teens that could have killed us if things went wrong. Some people are also more reckless than others, and will find ways to get their thrills no matter what rules you try to lay down. Some people get unlucky, which is sad but always has been and always will be that way.
Facebook and Instagram minus AI != group chat
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Whats the reason of the restriction for `We can only relocate candidates who are in the EU.` ?
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Thanks, it was nothing personal. :)
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/u/cranium mentioned this tool in the "Developing inside a virtual machine" post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42541508), and I thought it was worth sharing.

The WinApps project runs a Windows VM or Docker container, which then can be used to stream a Windows such as Microsoft Word to a Linux desktop as a near-seamless app.
Hehe, my ploy to get best info on how to do this worked.
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there's only one person releasing cracks for modern denuvo and their last release was a year ago, and they're crazy
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honestly if addiction was the only impediment, I wouldn't care. it's just that I don't care enough anymore.
Honestly, we should crowdfund a subscription for certain prominent folks. It’d be crack cocaine for some of the influencers and whatnot out there.
As the face of the company, Elon continues to make it political. As a Tesla owner myself I'm annoyed by his politics, both personal and as it relates to labor and manufacturing.

The FSD promises continue to underwhelm. The prices have not gone down. I personally wish Carplay/Android Auto were supported. Cybertrucks are polarizing stylistically.

Lots of reasons to not want a Tesla these days. Fewer and fewer reasons to root for them.
In contrast, BYD sold over 500,000 vehicles in December alone.

https://electrek.co/2025/01/02/byds-ev-sales-surged-2024-eno...
You're second point is interesting, because that's probably what's going on, but the brand that many of these people are building is that they are psychopathic nutjobs who view dead/dying/sick children as a career advancing opportunity.
When you say 'this line of work' are you referring to my handyman business or work to develop a new software product? (I'm happy to discuss either)
Most people's opinion of Elon, good or bad, is directly informed by his Xeets
From a UK perspective its where all the BMW drivers ended up; Universal bellends, a danger to be around.

I'm sure most the country at large don't know/care about X.com/Election stuff.
So I constantly had to fight management about paying my people when well I moved to IT. Management saw them as replicable by anyone that knew the software we used. I saw them as domain experts that knew HOW we used the software we used, the software was secondary to knowing the company (and basically how every job was done in the manufacture of a 30,000+ part product). When I was a dev, we were partnered with industry domain experts so that we understood how the software was implemented to a level that 'self documenting code' never will.

Software is a cog. You're code can't be that self documenting to become domain expert for the domain it is trying to fill. That's like documenting how to train for a marathon by looking at running shoes.
The question I always run into for your first point - how do you find these companies? If I want to move into a brand new business vertical, by definition I don't know any of the players or know where to look for that - for lack of a better word - audience.
On the contrary, Windows 11 TPM requirements and Pluton security processor were originally designed for the XBox and piracy protection.

The size of market share is irrelevant, doesn't change the hard fact that Microsoft does indeed produce hardware.
Depends on your age, I guess. It's not like I manage my portfolio myself. I defer to e.g., Vanguard and they do what they do and I just watch the balance periodically. Once I get near retirement, I'll start reinvesting accordingly.
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That's kind of what I was getting at in point 2, about "new use cases" opening up, but yeah you stated it more directly. It's hard to argue with. With a heuristic driven approach we know we will need expertise, dev hours, etc to improve the feature. With LLMs, well, some lab out there is basically doing all the hard work for us, all we need to do is sit back and wait for a year or two and then change one line of code, model="gpt-4o" to model="gpt-5o" or whatever.
People can jump employers while one H1B, anyways, it's besides my point, which is:

Until the US had better visa programs, it would be a shame to dismantle the H1B program.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Make a replacement, then talk about changing H1B.
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Those ARE high end. What are you talking about? :D
You're correct. You need a server, so Vercel approach with serverless are not applicable here. As for the hosting, any VPS should be fine. I host mine on Digital Ocean. You can use Kamal to setup for database too. Or if it's simple enough, sqlite is great.
Are you sure? Before buying the laptop, which test can you (or some reviewer) run that will say if the keyboard will start having issues after 6 months or if the lid will break after 10?

When you look at the numbers (I presume you mean the number of CPUs, their frequency, the amount of RAM, etc), on the paper they all have something similar. How do you know if one has higher-quality RAM than the other?

There are lines of products (like macbooks or thinkpads) where you can check the quality of earlier models, but macbooks and thinkpads are on the higher end. My friends who want Windows don't go for thinkpads...
It's not just HN

I don't know if you've somehow avoided seeing him in the news buddying up with the Trump administration + the German nationalist party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland)
4) ask HN for comments
Best reply in the whole storm I kicked up.
Exactly - social media is the perfect way to replicate that “town square” vibe our cavemen ancestors must’ve had to communicate with distant social connections, short of having an actual town square.
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Each new model opens up new possibilities for my work. In a year it's gone from sort of useful but I'd rather write a script, to "gets me 90% of the way there with zero shots and 95% with few-shot"
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>The mainstream media narrative does shape general public opinion, even for the smarter folks

If that’s true then everyone should be hating Luigi Mangione by now.
As a former Tesla Model 3 owner (it got totaled from getting rear-ended) and now own a Ford Mach-E as well as a Toyota RAV-4 Prime (plugin hybrid), yeah I totally agree. Cold weather is the worst for EV cars. You have to spend so much energy keeping the batteries warm on top of spending more energy to keep the cabin comfortable.

Heck even the RAV-4 is a problem because it uses a heat pump instead of resistance heating, which means it can't heat the cabin in full EV mode when the temp is < 20F, so I force it into gas mode to stay warm on those days.

Not sure how you fix this problem, other than just continuing to improve energy density in batteries to where you don't think about it anymore.
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> When did Musk say that EVs are trash?

Politics is transitive. What Musk says is less relevant than what he does; what he's done is given anti-EV interests power. (In exchange for gaining his own.)
Why is Musk be loud about his politics worse than other billionaires being quiet but equally active in the political scene? It's good to know where these people stand.
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Including porn, which is kind of ironic given the puritanical nature being discussed, and not being consequential.
Hi - could you tell me a little bit more about the interview process at HRT? Is it your standard FAANG-style leetcode / system design interviews? Or is it more math focused?
> Why's there so much hate for Tesla here on HN?

Musk has become a partisan brand. I'd guess HN tends classically liberal (whether left-liberal or libertarian). That and apolitical.
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When measuring the errors I exhaustively iterate over all possible floats in the range [1, 2), by enumerating all IEEE 754 single precision representations in that range. That's "only" 2^23 numbers, so perfectly doable.

My selection criteria was abit complex, but something like this:

1. Maximize number of accurate bits in the approximation.

2. Same in NR step 1, then NR step 2 etc.

3. Minimize the max error in the approximation, and then the avg ertor in the approximation.

4. Same for NR step 1, 2, ...
I just think they're bad cars. The "minimalist interior" is just a way to cheap out on features and they're not built that great. Hyundai or Rivian have some great EV offerings for same price or cheaper.
> Indeed, because free software development is largely driven by ideological purity rather than feature parity.

This "ideological purity" didn't come out of nothing, it came out of the very practical issue of who is in control. People forget that RMS came up with the whole thing because he wanted to fix a broken printer and was denied the source code that could help him fix the issue.

He wasn't siting in some ivory tower coming up with abstract philosophical questions, he was in some lab and had an actual practical problem he wanted to fix.
> pretty much everything had a similar quality level (pro-tip: no!)

But presumably they all had adequate quality level. As in they all met strict requirements.

> so us providing them with White Papers attesting to high quality didn't move the needle on their purchase decisions.

This is not that surprising to me. How does quality translate to profit is always the question. Sometimes there is a direct relationship (better quality requires less maintenance, or the number of adverse events is lover) but sometimes it doesn't.

Imagine if you are a company CEO and I come to you proposing that I can supply the same computers your workers already use but with a solid gold case instead of the aluminium one. I could even provide you with white papers saying that the new solid gold cases are much much more resistant to corrosion. And that is true. Gold in that sense is better than aluminium. Higher quality! Would you buy my laptops? Does that sound like a good deal? I don't think you would, unless you have significant laptop case corrosion problems.
I've never been on TikTok. What's the appeal?
> It is breaking the spec […]

As per a sibling comment, it is not breaking the spec. The comment in the Pg code even cites the spec that says what to do (and is quoted in the post):

* Generate UUID version 7 per RFC 9562, with the given timestamp.
*
* UUID version 7 consists of a Unix timestamp in milliseconds (48
* bits) and 74 random bits, excluding the required version and
* variant bits. To ensure monotonicity in scenarios of high-
* frequency UUID generation, we employ the method "Replace
* LeftmostRandom Bits with Increased Clock Precision (Method 3)",
* described in the RFC. […]
Most kernel code will be dealing with a different set of virtual addresses, which map the entire address space read/write. Those addresses necessarily alias the physical pages backing any userspace mapping, and thus allow corrupting them e.g. via buffer overflows beyond page boundaries.

The try-catch dance you're describing is only necessary for accessing the userspace mapping (because it might fault). Kernel code which dereferences kernel pointers doesn't do that.

Pages don't get remapped into userspace: userspace gets an additional aliased mapping with restricted permissions. The kernel's writable mapping still exists. There's nothing to "bypass", what permissions userspace applies its user mapping of the same physical page has no effect on the kernel mapping.
It seems to me like you are an expert on rationalizing expensive purchases. If that's unconscious, I think it would be good for you to bring it to conscious awareness.
The important part is the events in time aren't going to be as random as the actual random source. The chances of an actual collision remain low but the distribution of events over time is a weaker (in relative terms) source of random bits compared to proper "random" sources which won't have obvious bias at all.
Is that even possible for something like this? You've got a pretty long list of implementations, each having its own language specific syntax, e.g. https://github.com/pythological/kanren for one python version - and there are several Python versions linked on the homepage.
Plenty of independent, valid reasons to dislike the guy. Some of them are purely political. Some have nothing to do with politics. You might not agree or value these, but that isn't the same as them being invalid:

1) he's an anti-trans right winger. If you aren't, you might dislike him.

2) he's boastful and prideful, which some people find irritating.

3) he lies, constantly about the capabilities and timeliness of his companies. If you are excited about EVs or space or tunnel boring you might dislike the hype->reality->hype cycle.

4) guy is... kinda just an asshole online?

5) if you believe billionaires are fundamentally people who got their money exploitatively, you'll dislike musk.

6) you might disagree with his stewardship of key technologies in space or evs. He's made prioritization decisions one might disagree with.

7) he made high speed rail in California more difficult through the hyperloop nonsense

8) he's anti worker and anti union, and many people here are workers or union members and find the way he treats his employees as unethical.

9) he's has a history of having many children out of wedlock, and kinda ignoring those children and women

10) he has positions about birth rates that could be just esoteric or could be great replacement theory racism and it's unclear which is true.

Probably many reasons beyond these. If someone believes one of these, they might leave a pretty tepid comment.

If someone believes multiple of these, odds are good they'll see Musk as a villain.
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Lucid Air is quite a nice car.

My next EV will be a Lucid if I choose to start driving again.
> Why is Musk be loud about his politics worse than other billionaires being quiet but equally active in the political scene?

Musk's involvement is on the level of e.g. Rupert Murdoch or the Adelsons. It's well beyond even most billionaires' political activities.
The wealth inequality is growing in the US, while lower class is struggling. The kind of wealth Musk, Bezos, Gates have should be taxed a lot higher. They have teams searching for loop holes. The system is unfair for the average guy.

How did ALL federal agencies target musk? He is literally getting funding from the government.
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I guess it speaks more to his utter lack of social skills than anything how he has managed to convince both the far left and far right he is simultaneously an Elder of Zion super-Liberal enemy as well as a white supremacist fascist enemy. Comments supporting both readings keep popping up as replies and then get insta-flagged.
The point is that you are 100% off-track on job titles having anything to do with it. All tech workers are exempt. Focusing on a small slice of them who have a VP title is ignoring 99% of the very problem that you are getting worked up over. If you want to fight for overtime pay for salaried employees, go for it... but you are ranting down the wrong path when you act like a job title is relevant.
> A Motorola Moto G Play is $110 no contract. The cheapest iPhone is $429. It's is not 20% more, it's 4x more.

But this is the market failure.

If you ask a normal person why they should care about having a phone with drivers in the mainline kernel tree, they don't even know what you're asking. But the answer is, because then it can keep running the latest version of stock Android indefinitely, instead of being forced to buy a new phone over and over.

At which point a 20% difference in the hardware price will be relevant, because if you want to keep the phone a long time you'll want the one with 16GB of RAM instead of 4GB -- which is fine because RAM is under $1/GB.

But since the average phone customer doesn't know this, the phone they want isn't even available and their choices are the cheap phone which will be out of support in less than a year or the one that costs four times as much up front and will still be out of support before they otherwise actually need a new phone.
I am not GPU poor and don't care about speed. I care about how good the model is which is much harder to measure and much harder to do. I have not seen many independent reviews. There are finally some coming out now but a lot of this is just marketing hype to drive attention. Every AI company does it.
>explicitly mentions monotonicity

>optional constructs

So it is explicitly mentioned in the RFC as optional, and Pg doesn't state that they guaranty that option. The point still stands, depending on optional behavior is a recipe for failure when the option is no longer taken.
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