skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it adds value to see an interface, funny you should mention that specifically because recently I was on the job market and I created a Hugo blog where each job I applied for was one post. So I could keep track of when I applied, how, interviews, results and so forth in one markdown file. Then when it was time to report my job applications to the government so I would get money I just ran hugo server and looked at them graphically and chronologically.
The first post says "this shouldn't be a product at all".

I'm not saying that. I'm saying that it should be a small focused company like FastMail or 37signals.
That loss of 1000 or so users will really affect them I am sure. Got to remember HN and hacker culture is an echo-chamber.
No because you can train once and avoid all the errors that are costly and make you train and retrain.
Google was relatively cozy when I was working there about ten years ago. (But that was as an SRE and in Sydney. I believe the Americans make more of a show of long hours? They always seemed more exhausted in any case.)
Aside from the points the author points out, it is also laughable since it does exactly what the US has been accusing China of doing (censoring platforms it does not control).
Llama3.3:LLM intro, followed by human train of thought un'prompted'
That is what Edge Webview2 is,

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-edge/webview...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/
Any time I see a post with the "Follow" link, I click the X or triple dot to hide or signify disinterest. They appear as a flood, but the system gives up and I get a several week reprieve from unwanted suggestions.
Thank you for your attack, the result is very interesting. Yes, this is a small toy based on LLM. Now preliminary protection against such attacks is achieved by limiting input.
And if the existing restriction to three devices per year didn't stop it, how is reducing it by two going to make a difference?

(and maybe it will, but I don't see it)
I have Facebook recruiters chasing me (and many of my friends). So I don't think it's that hard to get in.

(I even worked there briefly for six weeks. But that's another story.)
This is only a problem if a client application has a server certificate pinned in source code. Otherwise, you can create a cert with a privacy CA and add it to a desktop OS trusted cert store.
DOS live USB image with tools for writers
I feel like governments should enforce unlocked bootloaders on consumer devices. If I want to install a different OS on my phone, TV, fridge, whatever, I should be allowed to
So have the client record and send the demo recording.

…hang on, this is starting to feel like Elliptic Curve cryptography: it’s trivial to prove a demo file is a “solution” to a random-seeded Doom map, but nontrivial to work-backwards to generate a demo-recording.
This should be about what you want in your career now, and not about your age. Once you can clearly answer the first question, it will be easy to find the right place.
I switched from SWE to SRE in my fifties. The perception is that neckbeards take a long time to grow.
You've fallen for a trick. Rather than rehash all the ways you've defamed and lied, your claims are thoroughly disproven in the appeal that will prevail [0]. He sold a metal plate with sad speech on it, that atf testified did not induce automatic fire. Unless every non-stamped ar-15 is an illegal machine gun, this card can't be.

https://www.scribd.com/document/772241091/AutoKeyCard-Case-A...
I try to say this gently, but this comment would make more sense if it came from lots of direct experience, rather than (what appear to be) repeated tropes. Have you seen this repeated in your own over-40 experience or the experience of people you know?
If it is absolutely necessary to use an LLM for this site (it isn’t) my suggestion would be to narrow the scope. Taking Skyrim specifically, there is an established (albeit small) vocabulary, simple grammar for name construction, and several examples of names. Giving the prompt the context of the existing vocabulary, the rules for name construction, and then asking it to generate a new one.

The output should then also be able to break the name down into its 3 parts and show the definitions for each word.

A random generator should be able to do this easily, dozens of sites exist that have done this for years at this point. The fact that I can ask your site to deserialize JSON input when it’s for dragon name generation seems odd. Like it should not do that, but because it uses an LLM you would have to jump through the hoops to sanitize that input.
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Food rationing has certainly happened in India's recent history. The British colonial administration established it in the 40s, and it was then revived in the 60s following acute shortages. But prior to that revival, food availability and pricing seems to have been subject to market forces. This suggests - if anything - that central planning was actually used to prevent famine deaths. But it is very difficult to find much accessible literature on that period.
Starting with 3 trillion trees, the reduction needed to reach 400 billion trees is 3,000,000,000,000−400,000,000,000=2,600,000,000,000 trees. Given that 15 billion trees are lost each year, the number of years required is 15,000,000,000 / 2,600,000,000,000
=173.33 years. Therefore, it would take approximately 173 years to reduce the number of trees to 400 billion if no new trees are added and 15 billion are lost annually.

Of course trees are added, and it’s not clear if the 15 billion number is net loss. Assuming not, the number of years could stretch to infinity.
Here's the thing - having worked there briefly you are now on the top of their lists. You're part of the exclusive club in recruiters' eyes, whether it actually sets you apart or not. I worked at Amazon for a few months, and regularly get contacted by Amazon recruiters. But never Facebook, etc.
Devcontainers running as non root. Trivial t set up. Don’t need to fanny around with a Vm
Uhm no? If Honey was running a legitimate affiliate marketing scheme, they would be upfront about the fact that they get an affiliate commission and that you benefit from this arrangement, because they are giving you part of the affiliate commission as cashback. This in itself is a very honest way of running an affiliate marketing business.

Except Honey doesn't do that. Online shops pay Honey to ignore the best coupons, so that the customer will pay more than if they had looked for the coupons themselves. They run a cashback scheme that is no different than e.g. payback cards, but they deceptively fund it using affiliate marketing, meaning that the user is getting a pittance in savings in comparison to what honey gets.
Might be, apparently doing less than 60h or not being reachable during the already short holidays is not doing enough, if the memes are to be belived.
Time is always a better evaluater than anyone in any journal
> do I need to get to the next level?

It depends on the company. A few companies have a terminal level that is approximately equivalent to Dropbox's IC3/IC4. This level does not involve managing people, but it does require owning projects that can span across several teams.
DeepSeek is open source and has a context length of 128k tokens.
What are you using these secondary phones for? Mine just collect dust in a drawer
Don't Chromebooks already do a nag on every boot if they're unlocked?

Why not do it on phones too? It's not like they get rebooted very often. That would totally combat the "compromised phone sold as clean" issue.
What quirks have you come across. The only annoyance for me was ssh agent having to uninstall the windows store version
Another random hack-habit with a very minor effect: standing up without using your arms, and your core instead. It's not a substitute for exercise, but it does loosen my core afterwards.
Anyway allowing to unlock the bootloader without providing the updated and complete kernel source code is useless for ROM development.

That's what they do with most of their device, I don't think there is much lineage os official support for the recent phone (3-4 years old) and the unofficial are made from patched kernel with a little bit of code from a phone, a little bit from another, etc.

Xiaomi was and is pretty much dead for rom development, i don't know who keep repeating that online but they obviously haven't been paying much attention.
Hey everyone,

My startup just had an angel round and we basically want to spend it on a critical hire. I’m torn on what it is. We’ve built a unique, gamified intelligent tutoring system, essentially a video game for learning the MCAT. Our platform is an intelligent tutoring system which diagnoses student weaknesses, assigns them content and videos in fun games, and then uses AI to tutor them on topics they struggle with.

The most fascinating part about our service is that it's built like a sensor network: from the beginning to the end, every interaction with our website is tracked and used to update the model's understanding of student knowledge. Every interaction on our platform is a data point – highlights, answer changes, even the coins they earn. This gives us unprecedented insight into how top performers master complex material. We're capturing the real-time cognitive processes of the highest achievers, not just their scores. We are leveraging insights from behavioral economics to optimize learning through a proprietary coin system – what students prioritize, and how they respond to incentives. For example, we learned that higher-performing students on MCAT CARs reading passages actually highlight less rather than more, turning theory of excellent test-taking into data-driven insights.

We got a lot of traction early on but the market for MCAT prep. 86% of people take the MCAT from March-September. By building a great product now, with amazing data tracking, we can learn a ton from this market peak and gain a critical lead in ITS architecture.

However, does that mean I hire a data engineer or a senior architect? Does that mean I look for an SWE with data experience and solid mathematics chops? Ideally, we’d have an experienced technical dev that can create essential data pipelines/help us run experiments with that data/lead our team of interns/implement machine learning systems/and also have the experience to take a product end-to-end…but it feels like I’m looking for a damn unicorn.

I’ve settled on “Software Engineer, Data & Learning Systems” but I feel like that’s incorrect.

Any guidance?
This year Llama 4 will have multiple releases, driving major advancements across the board and enabling a host of new product innovation in areas like speech and reasoning

Looking for the coolest use cases in speech ai for early access - reply with a description of your use case (not looking for any sensitive or proprietary information)
... DeepSeek?
Tech is everywhere. You don't have to work at a "tech" company to work in tech.

Try healthcare, banking, pharma, or any other industry that has been around longer than the internet.

Many big, established companies are used to people who have worked in one place for decades. That means middle-aged people. It's not weird for them, and their experience has taught them to value experience.

Protip for anyone: When you interview for a new job, ask how many retirement parties the company had in the last five years. That will tell you a lot about the company.
I built a similar thing a while back: https://github.com/katspaugh/interlinear.io

Useful when you're at a very low level of a language. Past B1 or so, it's mostly looking up individual words.
Agree w the other poster, 22 is when the music stopped for most of the industry.
That's always a valid point, and I'm going to say 'but', but it's a 'but' without a lot of conviction:

But, in Australia at least, it's not super easy to buy a Xiaomi. I have to go looking for them. Samsung is synonymous with Android, it's Apple or Samsung that people say, not Apple or Android.

People still look at me sideways when I say it's a Xiaomi (or Poco).

Australia isn't really a market that acts as any kind of leading indicator though.
Sounds a bit like IBM. Or like a company going through a private equity acquisition.
That’s literally your job as spelled out in the leveling guidelines. Doing any sort of coding or work that can be delegated to a mid level or senior developer is specifically considered “working below your level”
Have you seen this repeated in your own over-40 experience or the experience of people you know?

I can't speak for the parent, but that exact thing has happened to me.

It's no trope.
You're making an assumption that OP has the financial security to follow their desires rather than needs.
What about non-SREs? I get SREs need to be always on-call but I'm not sure about other positions.
I'm 40+ though I try not to act like it.
My most recent gig, which is my favorite job to date, is working at a small startup as "The X guy", for an X I've worked on for years and years. I suspect you can similarly specialize, if you think carefully about what you did for 10 years.

If my current gig weren't an option, I'd try for some of the DoD startups where X is applicable, or I'd try to move into consulting, as others have mentioned, or I'd open my own shop for small businesses nearby, in an unrelated field. Small time one-stop consultants in my area charge more for database admin than I do for X in my PhD field.
I've tried devcontainers in the past and the performance compared to my current setup was pretty bad. This was a few years ago when it was known that filesystem-heavy workloads on Docker for Mac were sub-optimal. I remember having to define several bind mounts which improved the overall performance. I do intend to revisit this solution next time I need to set up a dev environment but rest assured there was nothing substantially more complex about a VM versus devcontainers.
There's typically a list of dependencies of a specific project as a part of it, (hopefully) handled automatically by some part of build pipeline.
From distant 2007: https://xkcd.com/303/ ("Compiling")
So exactly the point. Not their target market is it. SE Asia they are practically the number one selling phone with OPPO. And a minority (and I mean minority, perhaps a low thousands) will be wanting custom roms.
On the one hand, Xiaomi is enough popular to do such kind of good thing to attract attention for geeks.

On the other hand, this can reduce the risk of fraud and cost of anti-fraud, especially when cost of phone is becoming lower and lower.
why wouldn't you prefer _something_ over _nothing_. I assume AI steps in for issues that people haven't been able to begin to solve in decades.
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So why are you commenting on it now as if it hasn’t changed or evolved since then? Give it another try now. It is really good.
Vscode will start the server for you, in practice. This is great if you just want to get going. It gives you a bit less flexibility though, if you want to do something fancy.

Vscode can also connect to existing servers. This can be very useful. For instance, you can put a ton of data and CPU in a server and work with vscode on a small laptop. If network latency is low enough, this works great.
It really depends on the type of environment and work you are looking to do.

At 59, I applied for a “full stack” (ugh..not my favorite term) job at a large Asia-based multi-national corporation working on support software (web apps) for their entertainment appliance platform. I got the job after a blessedly short interview process that did not involve any leet coding problems.

I am on an amazing senior team at a company with a great, relaxed work culture! This work is many things: fun, challenging, predictable, boring. Devs will understand how it can be all these things at once lol.

Find yourself a situation that meets your current drive/ambitions. There are a ton of places out there. Probably harder now (I got the job in 2018), but there are still people hiring.
Well, if what you're developing is an editor, you'll be editing inside the docker container either way ...
Jorge Luis Borges said something about:

if Shakespeare interests you, that’s fine. If you find him tedious, leave him. Shakespeare hasn’t yet written for you. The day will come when Shakespeare will be right for you and you will be worthy of Shakespeare, but in the meantime there’s no need to hurry things.
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I think you can still get an intuition. 10000 people standing next to each other so that each person has half a meter to themselves will give you a line of 5 kilometers (just over 3 miles). That's a relatable distance - for example, the length of Central Park is 2.5 miles, apparently.

It's not perfect, but gets you somewhere. Squaring and cubing makes it less relatable, but it's still a lot better than a completely abstract number IMO. Thinking about this just now made me realize both how long a line of 10000 people can be and how densely you can pack them in a square - or how many people (theoretically) fit into 5x5 kilometer area.
individuals will now have to use ChatGPT to get suggestions about how to unlock Xiaomi devices with some tool that was stolen from Xiaomi by hacking them
Adding a CA cert to the OS trust store only works if the application uses it. I've encountered apps that don't use the OS trust store or networking stack; even then it's possible to reverse engineer the traffic though[0].

0: https://hugotunius.se/2020/08/07/stealing-tls-sessions-keys-...
No, I don’t think so. It’s just a preference thing. I think that the rails scaffolding is definitely comparable. For most apps in Django I ultimately move away from admin in production towards custom views. There is a search fields feature, which I use frequently, but it might not do what you’re looking for. I think user permissioning and the audit trail are pretty useful in the early stages of an app. At the end of the day, crud is crud, and if you have a workflow that works for you nothing the admin panel offers is going to save you all that much time. Rails scaffolding is a similar way. It’s just one workflow.

I’m doing a side project in Go right now, which is decidedly not “batteries included”, and I love it. Go and htmx are kind of a match made in heaven. That doesn’t mean I think Django Admin or Rails Scaffolding are useless, they’re just a convenience. I rolled my own login system, cause it’s fun. Is Django user land or Devise more secure? Absolutely. Is it necessary for what I’m doing? Nope.

My personal preference is that if I’m doing app design or consumer facing work, Rails seems stronger. For internal tooling, data analysis work, or geospatial work, I reach to Django to have those Python libraries available.
Having tried an alternative compiler, Algol 68 Genie, it's an incredibly fun exercise – like riding a 60s' concept car; weird, overdesigned and overcapable, and simultaneously hilariously impractical, but fun, fun, fun.

Two fun features: semaphores as a language construct, as well as a block for parallelized statements.
They were not kits, and even if you did classify them as one it would necessarily result in every ar-15 being a machine gun because the parts sold in one can do the same hammer follow malfunction without possessing or reshaping the metal card.

It's a metal business card shape with a drawing of the parts of a lightning link on it, that the state admitted didn't even function as one when dremmeled out using the blueprint. Even if you cut into the shapes, ATF could not get it to induce automatic fire. This is primarily a first amendment case and will get overturned as soon as a non-lukewarm IQ judge sees it. It's inevitable.
...and Trump wants to block the ban of TikTok. Fight hard, people. Fight hard.
I mean, they can - but they’re always wrapped up as pseudo-tables.

Not everything is best described as a table, y’know?
In the Anglesea crossbow case, there were only 17 people on the island who'd brought crossbows. So presumably the police were going through his digital footprint with a fine toothed comb.

If you're one of 17 suspects; a car only you have the keys to gets stolen and burned on the night of the murder, with the car's GPS mysteriously failing during the theft; your Amazon purchase history shows you ordering a crossbow, the type of bolt used in the murder and a GPS jammer; the crossbow bolts you ordered have disappeared; your alibi is you were with someone who denies having been with you; and the phone network says your phone was in the area the murder happened?

You're probably still going to jail.
are there any news in the voynich code?
“Translation of each word” is also called a “gloss”, and I think it’s absolutely vital for trying to read works in translation.

Lots of words and phrases have multiple meanings and connotations in their origin language and it’s not usually possible for a translation to bring the richness into the target language.

(I’m going to butcher this because I don’t have the text in front of me, but) Thomas Aquinas composed several hymns for the feast of Corpus Christi, one of which is “O salutaris hostia”, which contains a reference to “fer auxilium” which is often translated to “bring help”.

The choice of the word “fer” isn’t the most obvious choice for “bring”, though. Some translators have speculated that Aquinas chose “fer” because of how close it is to “ferculum”, which is a litter or wooden frame upon which spoils are carried, which refers to the crucifixion.

.... I think that’s right.

Anyway if you have a gloss along with a translation, it’s easier to include context like that as footnotes on individual words/phrases.
This is by Edward Tufte. If you haven't had the chance to check out Edward Tufte's other works, in particular, the Visual Display of Quantitative Information [1] then I highly suggest you do. Every time I see a horrible graphic in a research paper, I redirect authors to [1]. It ought to be a must-read for anyone wanting to create a graph. Seriously, if you intend to display information, read that book. It'll open your eyes to make you see the immense amount of waste of space and clutter that people introduce.

It's basically an ode to clear, cutter-less, data visualization. Check out this timetable [2] (horizontal lines: stations, vertical lines: hours, diagonal lines: trains), and your mind will be blown. It's compact, it gives you all the information you need, it can be navigated by your grandma (or your granddaughter) and it likely shows more information than most digital or paper-based system you have ever met, in a smaller format.

[1] https://www.edwardtufte.com/book/the-visual-display-of-quant...
[2] https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*8zW...
I’m only skimming the article tbh but all of the slides I’m seeing look terrible and useless. I don’t see much text about reducing arguments to one sentence theses.

A one sentence thesis is good communication. That’s the point of a thesis statement. It’s the core idea behind most writing education. If you don’t have a clear thesis up front, then people have to divine what you’re trying to convey themselves bottom up from the arguments on the screen.

“Luring the listener into compliance” is frankly the reader’s problem. PowerPoints are presentations, not debate stimulus. They are generally intended for one person to convey information, not foster a group discussion. It would be very bad to blame the concept of a blog if you’re drawn in by persuasive writing to a false idea.

PowerPoints are bad when someone is using it and you can’t tell what they’re trying to tell you. Especially with regard to whether it has the verbal explanation or not.
I don't think theres much value in theoretical approaches that lack important derivation data either, so no need to try to split the papers like this. The academic CS publishing is flooded with bad quality papers in any case.