skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the current state of democracies around the world, my hopes are not on "wisdom of the crowds".
Forget the page, look at the slides, they are amazing.
Constructing and maintaining a knowledge graph is one thing.

Retrieving one with low latency is another.
90% yes. I don't live nor work in the major hubs, sometimes I fly through as a stopover though (in EU you don't need to go through security again). I do this on purpose - often there are several airports about the same distance from my destination, so I just pick the least used one.
I've been doing go to market for technology businesses to some degree for the better part of 20 years now and I still learn more every day. I don't really see it as something you can easily learn by reading about, mostly because there is a lot of nuance.

That said, it basically boils down to 3 things:

Personas

Channels

Messages

You have an archetype of someone in your head that would like your tool, you want to test if that archetype exists. That persona likely consumes content, your job then is to understand the channels that persona typically likes to consume their content, and try to serve them a message they can understand in the time you have to serve it. There are thousands of personas in millions of channels consuming billions of messages, that is why it's hard.
Years ago I worked on a live TV show that allowed viewers to call and ask questions to hosts. It was a small local TV station but the show was some what popular. We wanted to know what variables affected how many calls there are per show and we manually tracked a bunch of data points and one of them was the weather. Once enough data was collected it was very clear for our show the weather had a big impact, when we had beautiful weather we had less calls but when the weather was horrible we had a lot more calls. In hindsight it was obvious that when it rains people will stay home and watch TV.

Another fun thing this data collecting showed me was subjective bias of certain managers. One of them was sure that a certain hosts were getting much less calls than the others during the show but the data showed that besides one "star" all the hosts have about the same amount of calls even though it "felt" like they got less.
HN in general is not fine with tracking and surveillance. But this is irrelevant for Mozilla specifically, as most companies/projects are not selling themselves on high privacy and rescuing the internet. They are making goal and promises which they repeatedly fail to reach, and people are outcalling them for this. And the worst part is, they are not even not holding up to their own standards, they even ignored and broke them multiple times, and people remember.
When you have hundreds of them, you can start to see the patterns, and we have very high confidence that we will weed out automated applications before the technical interviews.

Plastic surgery isn't easy to spot—bad plastic surgery is easy to spot.
I'm not opposed to that in principle. Baby steps.
The internet is full of experts
> I usually just put a few splitters before and after tapping off of main bus lines

You are literally describing balancing. You are using an ad hoc solution as opposed to a blueprint, which can be fine, but I wouldn’t dismiss the convenience of being able to belt off a line of variable consumption from your bus and then guarantee each line down the bus will continue to have a fair flow of components. You clearly appreciate that this is desirable, and are solving for it in your own way.
Is any of these equivalent in nature to, for example, censoring information about Tiananmen square events?
As a former president of the United States, I’m inclined to agree but the random made up data needs to be subtle enough not to warrant suspicion.
A locally run 7B model would consume a lot of resources for most people, but it would be nice as an option.
I DMCAed GitHub and Stack Overflow for not letting me delete my own content (both of them ignored it and then I sent GDPR notices to both; GitHub ignored that one a d SO told me to fuck off. Next step is a lawsuit, but that's expensive). The perjury declaration you have to make is that you believe everything in the notice is accurate and you believe you have the right to issue this notice. Actually, the less well you know the law, the safer you are from perjury.

Plus, they'd have to actively sue you for perjury which costs them a lot of money for zero gain, unless you're spamming bad requests or something.
One advantage China has that you haven't mentioned is higher degrees of mandatory surveillance over a larger population [0]. Even if they never reach/surpass the west in AI compute power, there is greater potential for China to have more training data in long term to produce higher quality models. Chinese laws require data types and algorithms to be reported to the CCP government, which combined with authoritarian policies, gives the CCP far greater leverage in AI development strategy compared to any other entity[2]. From this perspective, growth in Chinese AI capability is not only a threat to US national interests, but also to the Chinese public itself.

Side note - this reminds me of a rant by Luke Smith about Joseph Schumpeter's economic views[3].

[0] https://theconversation.com/digital-surveillance-is-omnipres...

[1] https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2022/12/what-chinas-algo...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYUgTzT79ww
How many more DNA damaging high energy particules are getting in our bodies while living day to day into this "anomaly"? Significant?
Very cool! Will be keeping an eye out for it.
"Before Deepseek, CEO Liang Wenfeng’s main venture was High-Flyer (幻方), a top 4 Chinese quantitative hedge fund last valued at $8 billion"

Seems wild that a top 4 quant hedge fund is only $8B?
That doesn't mean it's not an alternative to Lightroom. That was put in for reasons discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27722258
The feature list, description and thumbnail of the UI begs to differ.
It is not lying, it’s not creating a space, it is padding capital letters. After a few hours they are not confusing. At any rate, that’s a workaround for camel casing.
You can take this a step further and get one of those 5-in-one/7-in-one weather stations and then listen to its communications to its basestation with an RTL-SDR using rlt_433 and then pipe those datapoints into a Prometheus + Grafana installation.

https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433
We’re going to start requiring all applicants send video based job applications in 2025 unless they are a direct referral. Sorry to say but there is a very narrow window of time where a tool like this will probably be useful, if it isn’t useless already.
even with SS7 ?
Linux is an OS kernel. Without a lot of other stuff (like Grub) it won't even boot.
Laying off 150k people and claiming there are no prospects in the market is also unethical. Sounds bad!

Might be that you'll have to build relationships with actual people.

See you on the battlefield.
It has nothing to do with Kentucky’s Yummiest Chicken, if that’s what you were thinking.
Well I just finished it yesterday and it usually takes at least a month to go from application to offer, so it would be quite impressive indeed if I already had gotten an offer with it today.
Or this just makes the job application situation worse for both sides.
I'm in this same boat. I started the onboarding with kick.com over the weekend. Yesterday clicked the "Opt Out Download Data" button and still haven't seen any data.
If these three died, it might be a loss to the country. None of them is as important to the country as Xi is to China. The resilience of the CCP, in light of its dependence on Xi, can only be upheld through the absolute suppression of freedom. But the average daily life is certainly much more enjoyable than in NK.
I really need this for Canada and the US where finding a public toilet is close to a miracle. Of course, a few people walk in NA, especially in the suburbs, but this is one of many "against walking" pokes. Even a map of covered bushes would be great. Wall into suburbs and you won't find anything for miles.
Security of shareholder value!
While such a scenario is certainly possible, it's not something that can be achieved by humanity by solely leverage on its current capacities to transform earth environment.

See for example https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/47070/20231113/earth-s...

So, to answer your question, in the part where humanity can certainly change the world to its own detrimental, but is currently not able to really put it in a state where absolutely no life form is conceivable anymore, and that even putting it a state where some hunters gatherers would not be able to survive is not a 100% garantie outcome of current trends. though I would rather consider the current trend rather awful if you ask.
I'll visit again when on par with `sysz`[0] functionality.

[0]: https://github.com/joehillen/sysz
Unfortunately the plans are extremely low-quality in some states. In New York State, for example, the 'marketplace' plans are ALL HMO's with high deductibles, and the networks are small. The state has some of the best healthcare in the world, but good luck if all the care you want is out of network.

AND it costs up to 1K a month for a single and double for a family.
This looks great, but I got a bit of sticker shock when I saw Glide's plan to do this is $69 per month cost (billed yearly). There's a free tier, but with a 1-app limit and only Big Tables (no Google Sheets). I'd be fine with paying for personal apps, but $69/month feels a bit... steep.
Unfortunate sequence of events :(

Mono must not be used on desktop environments. I wish the author explored the source build of the normal .NET more - on standard environments it’s usually just a few commands (it has improved quite a bit).

Given that Guix is a Linux distro the is no reason to avoid attempting this.

Edit: I guess the specific source build requirements is the reason why it’s so painful.
Radio Age January 1925 https://archive.org/details/radioage04unse/page/n5/mode/2up
You can but Lenovo and Dell laptops with support.
Chinese stocks are nowhere near American prices.
Linux probably has enough eyeballs on its source to make attacks like that unlikely anyway, but Git isn't just used by Linux.
Because VOIP requires a verified Google account and phone number, while traditional numbers can, uh, be purchased anonymously at the corner store.
$45 is a bit out there
I don't understand why automated applications is unethical. If most companies won't spend the time to manually look at each application, why expect applicants to manually apply to every company. I don't even use services like those but I think the current system is flawed for today's job market so it's hard to even say what is ethical right now.
Aren't they attacks against the US government mandated backdoors in all equipment?
Show HN: Cave Adventure 1976 PICO-8 port
Made this during COVID. I was into PICO-8 at the time and saw someone ported DOOM to it. I'm more of a text adventure guy, so I decided to port ADVENT. Basically I wrote a FORTRAN-to-Lua transpiler. The hardest part was figuring out what version of FORTRAN the source code was written in, finding a manual, cramming it into the limited cartridge space, but most of all, wrapping my mind around the data file format. Always admired Will Crowther for making this. Very fun project. I recorded myself during the whole process but I never posted a video. Future work maybe.
Note also that per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42559344 he's only been using it for a day and therefore has basically no idea if it even works right or if everything gets shitcanned.
I monitor my local weather using a windows based system.
The courts will likely be able to discern between "good faith" scraping and a DDoS for hire masquerading as scraping.
Depends. The underlying issue for this bug is that the code involved crosses language boundaries (the Windows kernel and win32 libraries written in C and the application in C++). The code where the lifetime failure occurs is Windows code, not application code. However, the Windows code is correct in the context of the C language. The error is caused by an APC that calls exception-throwing C++ code, being pushed onto the waiting-in-C thread. This is a case of language-agnostic OS mechanisms conflicting with language-specific stack unwinding mechanisms.

This could only be made safe by the OS somehow imposing safety mechanisms on the binary level, or by wrapping all OS APIs into APIs of the safe language, where the wrappers have to take care to ensure both the guarantees implied by the language and the assumptions made by the OS APIs. (Writing the OS itself in a memory-safe language isn’t sufficient, for one because it very likely will still require some amount of “unsafe” code, and furthermore because one would still want to allow applications written in a different language, which even if it also is memory-safe, would need memory-correct wrappers/adapters.)

This is similar to the distinction between memory-safe languages like Rust where the safety is established primarily on the source level, not on the binary level, and memory-safe runtimes like the CLR (.NET) and the JVM.
Hugging Face releases a barebones library for agents
Very happy to see Grafana adopt this plugin to continue it's development among all the various other data sources grafana can plugin in to. I'm happy to bring Grafana and it's stack to the work place and developers are very happy using it with their OpenTelemetry integrations. Their only complaint is that some of the settings for panels can be difficult to find.

My own wish is that I hope something like this https://github.com/knightss27/grafana-network-weathermap is adopted too. I know it maybe possible using Canvas but Canvas is too much of a blank slate and needs a lot of work to set it up the same way.
I’ve been thinking about this market, and I’d love to talk with you. If you’re interested in discussing, reach out at the email in my profile.
If you're lucky a neighbour may already have a compatible weather station nearby, which you can freely collect data from as long as you're in range ;)
The difference is, China has more have-nots than the US has people. The US is the main source of value creation for China. If Xi wants to not have a coup and be beh... I mean, if Xi wants to guarantee the future prosperity of the PRC, he needs to raise those have-nots out of poverty and the way to do that is by selling stuff to Americans and stealing their IP, not creating a shooting war with a country that has enough nuclear weapons to make this planet uninhabitable to intelligent life for centuries.

The US has done what it has done in the regions you list because they're already unstable (particularly the Middle East) and have no way of striking decisive blows against US territory.
Is this only for the US? Also can you apply to US remote from elsewhere?
> I don't have a profilo, No CV, No Linkedin

Why not?

The internet is full of open source projects, starving for motivated contributors - and they also make a great portfolio. LinkedIn profile is free, it also doubles as CV. But there are also many free hosting providers that allow you to create a personal website on a subdomain, as an exchange for your email, and some ad-space on your page.
I can't believe the CPC would do this- add a backdoor to American technology for American agencies.
Yep. And it gets worse.

Websites are at least supposedly sandboxed so they are not as much of a risk as running native binaries. But this is getting worse and worse as browsers expose more and more of their host operating system's functionality. The benefits of using a website instead of a native app are quickly disappearing while the drawbacks have only been somewhat mitigated. We're getting to the point where browsers are worthy of the decades old criticism Emacs has received. They have eventually become an OS with many fine features - simply lacking a good web browser.

The browser, and the web, has been destroyed by the insane security model of modern OS-Browsers: running every executable they're sent from anyone with not a care in the world as if it is normal. This one thing has made it so browsers cannot be in control of the user, made it so that CA TLS is pretty much required and so that browser devs write entirely for the security use cases of the insane corporate web applications instead of writing for human people looking at website documents.

And this same security model makes it so that web apps basically cannot communicate with each other at all, unlike real applications where piping between small applications is the entire idea.
Because the US government forces them to have these systems and to not encrypt the calls. There should be more attention on the fact that, essentially, the US government hacked US telecoms for China's benefit.
The conclusion to this arms race is "captcha" like mechanisms to prevent automated job applications
Tragedy of the commons at work once again
Use the other system’s elf interpreter (which is conveniently a library). Then it should work. Saying an ability to run older binaries does not exist is just wrong.

By the way, when someone makes an assertion that something is always true, it only takes 1 counter example to disprove it. The assertion that you cannot run old Linux binaries on a newer system has been disproven by a counter example.
Over 3.1M fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings
I absolutely detest this whole "library" business. Why can't just I open a file? Or just browse a folder, click some files and edit them? WTF is a "library"? A "film roll"? Keep it real.

I also wish they had a better color calibration workflow. Everything looks like trash with the new color calibration and filmic RGB nonsense. Especially DJI-shot raw files. Lightroom opens them fine.
Xi has knee-capped anything a threat to his power, this Xi-ceiling as I call it, will prevent true cutting edge dominance compared to the West.

Sure, there’s censorship in the West, but it’s not nearly as scary or effective as the East’s. Genius does not regularly spring under the sword of Damocles.
I ended up buying a bunch of temperature/humidity/pm2.5 sensors that communicate over Zigbee, then collect the data with Zigbee2MQTT, which was trivial with the mqtt_consumer in Telegraf.

The benefit (or drawback I guess) with your approach is that you can also ingest your neighbors data, if you can reach it :)
Captcha solvers as a service are already well developed. The end result is going full circle to in person applications only.
People just like to justify their choices. Whether it Windows or Chrome they will shout from the rooftops about how the open source/privacy respecting thing doesn't do X, but then totally absolve the massive company for doing another anti-consumer/anti-privacy thing. The conclusion is that privacy and software freedom are just not important to the majority of people.
Why All the Major Cloud Platforms Are the Same
> so expect a series of rug pulls like the recent ones.

I think it's rather the other way around; i.e. it is you that should lower your expectations from a free tool provided by a non-profit company.
The goal isn't entertainment but practical simulation. I'm building tools to automate A/B testing, model marketing campaign responses, and optimize content - all by simulating human behavior at scale. Where behavior trees fall short, language models can capture nuanced user reactions that can't be reduced to simple metrics.

(if I can make it realistic enough lol)
Firefox loses, because they are doing barely anything to be better than chrome. Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, they all build and sell their own unique identity and seem to be successful enough with it. But Firefox? Basically just exists. Something about privacy and not being the big kraken, but so are all other now too. In the meanwhile Mozilla is just continuing wasting money on pointless projects which do nothing to solidify their cash cows future, while adding nothing of worth.

Yes, the default Browser wins (which BTW is not always Chrome), and Mozilla does not put up a fight to change it.
I already said: we review every application manually, as do most people who have spoken up on threads like this. All you're accomplishing is burning out those of us in hiring, which makes the market worse for everyone.

It's unethical by Kant's universalizability principle: if everyone did it the hiring market would turn into a complete craps shoot.
Yes, most casts via pointers are formally UB in both C and C++, and you can induce weird behavior by compilers if you transmit casted pointers through a function boundary (see [0] for a standard example: notice how the write to *pf vanishes into thin air). Since people like doing it in practice, GCC and Clang have an -fno-strict-aliasing flag to disable this optimization, and the MSVC compiler doesn't use it in the first place (except for restrict pointers in C). They don't go too far with it regardless, since lots of code using the POSIX socket API casts around struct pointers as a matter of course.

Apart from memcpy(), the 'allowed' methods include unions in C (writing to one member and reading from another), and bit_cast<T>() and std::start_lifetime_as<T>() in C++.

[0] https://godbolt.org/z/dxMMfazoq
I don’t know windows programming and this was a very interesting (nightmare-ish) post.

I had a few questions I asked ChatGPT to understand better:
https://chatgpt.com/share/677411f9-b8a0-8013-8724-8cdff8dc4d...

Very interesting insights about low level programming in general
> Very happy to see Grafana adopt this plugin

we adopted the author along with it :)

> My own wish is that I hope something like this https://github.com/knightss27/grafana-network-weathermap is adopted too. I know it maybe possible using Canvas but Canvas is too much of a blank slate and needs a lot of work to set it up the same way.

good feedback. it's been discussed on and off, and we'll def improve Canvas in the future, but the viz team is fairly small so we have to manage how much stuff we take on to maintain forever.
More like play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Are you using any kind of job scheduler to do the job for you in the background? Are you using Apache Arrow for job scheduling since you mentioned you need to apply to jobs behind the scene and spread out across day and night.
Seems like an opportunity to do some steganography. If the model isn't known by the attacker (or perhaps they can be "salted" to become unknown) then the actual message can be encoded in the offsets.

This would be much nicer than text-in-image steganography because services often alter images before displaying them, but they rarely do that to text (assuming the usual charset and no consecutive whitespace).
That's what I'm doing right now because it's easy. I need to look for more challenging work soon.
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I'm not sure if you're saying this tongue-in-cheek but as someone whose looking for a job, this is a requirement already with some employers.
You'll let me know the next time you'll have to require the permission of your dog to pee, or when it can trigger surgery to cut your balls or put you down.
This is very cool. I’m curious about how it works under the hood. Specifically, how are you handling fetching the job posts and the application submissions on the official company websites? I’ve experimented with scraping in the past, but I always run into blockers that are tough to bypass. Would love to hear how you handled those challenges
This seems fair as long as someone at your company actually watches all of the videos …