skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately that 2% was the part going to actual firefighters. The other 98% was administrative overhead. Both remaining firefighters are spread thin.
They're better off "decimating" people randomly.

Try to implement some kind of evaluation scheme in a big company and you've giving narcissists the keys to the jeep because for them "presentation of self" is the main competence unlike the rest of us.
It's total pay without benefits. It includes overtime and on-call time (which are typically paid at a higher rate).

It wouldn't surprise me that an experienced security guard is making $170K; the state itself is expensive, and they have to retain staff. The staff is often ex-cop, and guards very frequently work overtime (paid time-and-a-half or more). The guard may be a people manager (I don't know which row you're referring to but it looks like the typical guard makes far less).
Same here on ChatGPT 4o:

The blog post is a detailed, technical account of the author's journey to get SerenityOS running on real hardware – specifically a Dell Chromebook 3100, referred to as "octopus." It covers the entire process from hardware selection, debugging challenges, to custom hardware modifications and software hacks. The project involves dealing with embedded controllers, debugging over USB-C, and using a Raspberry Pi Pico to bridge UART and SPI communication. The author documents various obstacles, including missing components on the motherboard, unconventional eMMC support, and creative workarounds to bypass hardware limitations.

The tone is playful and filled with personal anecdotes, memes, and tech community references. Despite encountering numerous hardware and software issues, the author perseveres through experimentation and community support. The post reflects a deep passion for open-source development and hardware tinkering.

Notably, the blog does not express any particular bias against Linux or a preference for Microsoft Windows. Instead, it focuses on niche tech solutions, hacking, and open-source contributions.

I think it should be obvious that such simple attempts at prompt injection do not work, and should be treated as nothing more than jokes or political signalling.
I'm mouth-agape at the opportunity incumbents are giving to small/indie teams (to build better, competing products). I had a feeling some version of this would happen as cheap cash dried up (and founding talent exited), but not to this scale.

If you know how to build great products, now's the time to cast your line. It won't be easy, but I think there will be a lot of very happy small teams/soloists making money hand over fist (for them) over the next few years.
> Just refactor SerenityOS, take its DE and make it a Wayland compositor

Funnily enough SerenityOS's WindowServer is actually more usable than Wayland, so that would be a downgrade.
I feel really sorry for you.

I grew up in north-central Pasadena and had many friends who lived in Altadena, and it’s been heartbreaking to watch the news from a distance and realize that many of their homes might have burned.
Fair enough I suppose. I had very severe crashing issues playing both natively and via proton. You'll find similar reports on protondb.
Yep firefighting is almost completely useless in remote areas which is where most of these fires start before they grow and threaten residential areas. It’s when they grow out of control away from infrastructure that they become a problem.

A class 1 fire truck (the big red ones used in sub/urban areas) and class 3 wildland off road trucks carry around 500 gallons of water which is a drop in the bucket. Fire hydrants on the other hand can supply 250-750 gallons per minute.

The best they can do is try to create firebreaks using bulldozers and other off road vehicles while preemptively dousing properties with water to defend them, because they’ll usually have road access. Doesn’t do a damn when Santa Ana winds are causing 90mph gusts that throw embers for hundreds of feet.
Instagram today is effectively a totally different app than what they bought.
>I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end.

What about their actions so far suggests that?
A puzzle game inspired by functional programming
It sounds like one of those big companies that's just very well hooked up to the institutional money printers and the main challenge for them is making up narratives to justify the money that's flowing into their coffers unconditionally.

It's telling that Benioff used to work at Oracle.
"Policy changes at Meta are deeply troubling" – Mastodon CEO
I'm afraid I don't understand that second part of your comment - it's not clear to me what distinction you're wanting to appear in the UI. But I can answer this part:

> if more people downvote / individual flag it than upvote it, then how did it rise to the front page to start with?

It's because most of the flags only happen later. Upvotes get a post onto the frontpage, then other users see it on the frontpage and think "wtf? that doesn't belong on HN" and flag it. This is especially common with sensational or outrageous stories, since those qualities inevitably attract upvotes—but then later they attract flags. You can think of flags as a bit like an immune system in that sense.
Seems like it’s just because the author used the word delve which the use of has been linked to AI writing. Pretty flimsy evidence though, maybe the surgery really does like the word.
I guess I assumed it was actually written directly to a UW homework assignment, but looking at the repository, I don't actually see any reference to that. So you may be right.
Yes, this is extremely common.

On the one hand, yes, this is absolutely batshit insane.

On the other hand, college sports are enormously popular; football games regularly play to sold out crowds of over 50,000, and during football season there will be games on TV all weekend (not just local ones). They bring in a lot of revenue and publicity for the university -- and the latter (debatably?) helps attract students to apply.
Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks
I like glider too but they did a redesign at some point which I didn't like (too many buttons taking up space on the screen) so I'm still using the ancient version :)
> The UK government also has several huge arm based solutions dedicated to cracking internet encryption, zero chance that isn't breaking mostly everything, for sure the Chinese and Russians have similar.

So you seriously think that almost all current RSA is being decrypted in real time by at least UK, China and Russia (and I would assume US)? Do you have any source or reference for this at all?
How does your URL parser handle Unicode?
> they were extorted into doing political censorship

Please cite your sources.

From Zuck’s recent letter he says literally the opposite: “Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions”
Student builds tool to circumvent common university registration rules, is surprised when university objects.
> in order to catch up in other parts of the business or figure out what markets to put your new productivity toward.

Product can come up with and design features an order of magnitude faster than developers can implement them.

In practice established products have deep backlogs full of bugs and features that never get actioned.
Internally they are allowed. There are internal productivity tools (IDE Plugins, APIs, Frameworks, Chat) with homegrown models (in the press) and the ability to switch to other models. The various models are integrated throughout the engineering tools and Slack.
The humans who lead companies are rarely held personally responsible (in a legal sense) for decisions they make anyway, so having LLMs at the helm wouldn’t really be that much of a change.
after years of teach humans to identify and avoid scams, we now have to teach AI to do this. le sigh
I downvoted a few of them, and so did lots of other users—correctly so, as your comments (not just in this thread) have often been unsubstantive and/or flamebait. Can you please not post like that? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why wouldn’t a company that has found the secret to productivity not double down and give themselves a massive lead on others in focused area of their choosing.

30% increase in productivity would mean another 100+ engineers should also be 30% more productive.
>They never seem to talk about what happens when the the dream is ubiquitously realized and nobody is left to buy whatever it they are selling because their production expenses fund someone else's sales.

"If we replace 95% percent of farmers with tractors, who's going to buy all the food that's being grown?"
The wind is too high for aerial firefighting. You could have every firefighting plane in the world in LA right now and it wouldn't matter. None of them can fly.

Do you have some reason to believe more planes is the best allocation of resources?
The subject heading of Avi’s first message is: “Guideline 1.”

We look for places where the math is right. Meaning what? Meaning that pop. is about to explode- - -we can predict that just by looking at age histogram- - -and per capita income is about to take off the way it did in Nippon. Taiwan, Singapore. Multiply those two things together and you get the kind of exponential growth that should get us all into fuck-you money before we turn forty.

This is an allusion to a Randy/Avi conversation of two years ago wherein Avi actually calculated a specific numerical value for “fuck-you money.” It was not a fixed constant, however, but rather a cell in a spreadsheet linked to any number of continually fluctuating economic indicators. Sometimes when Avi is working at his computer he will leave the spreadsheet running in a tiny window in the corner so that he can see the current value of “fuck-you money” at a glance.

— Neal Stephenson, “Cryptomonicon”
Sounds like a bad unit to me. Haven't had any such issues on mine, been running Fedora and Arch over the past couple of years.
That's a huge assumption without knowing anything about me.
That’s the only reasonable thing to do in their position. Anything you say from there can and will be used against you.

It’s also the best way for any customer service rep to eject from an unpleasant exchange. 100% done with you; lawyers problem now.
I wouldn't expect better. Everybody sends these kinds of emails. Banks, shops, social media sites, hospitals, government... everybody. It's just easier this way for each particular site, and since data theft and unauthorized access has been successfully reframed as the victim's fault, there is no incentive not to do it.
You can just drop the course - pretty much every university (in the United States, at least) allows students to drop courses one or two weeks into the semester without any record (on say, a transcript). Otherwise students cannot possibly plan their semesters, since courses may not make material available until after the semester actually starts.

So if you are planning to sell the slots and it does not work out, you just drop the course, no harm to you.
#til that there is an object in (or near, I guess) our solar system called “FarFarOut”.
I have never seen this work, at all, with a large codebase. Can you give a specific example of a large repo where this produced useful/coherent results?
I worked at a few firms that partnered with United Way and strongly encouraged employees to donate. That seemingly gave these firms a marketing opportunity to show how much they and their employees gave to charity.

I am a proponent of giving to charities and causes. I’m not a proponent of doing so to give my employer free PR with my personal money. The United Way has added overhead, and I’d rather give directly to causes I care about.
What do you imagine "crank" means that differs from having some heterodox views? That is the definition of this use.

"a person who has strange or unusual ideas and beliefs"

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/crank
OCaml 5.3.0 Released
This kind of smokescreen only works for so long. Once it all starts failing and profits dip, things will change.
Problem for new hires is also whether your manager will support the onboarding. If you get throw n to the wolves with 1 month of “onboarding”, you’ll fail even with straightforward codebases. I’ve seen managers who bring you in and ask you, what the you and the team should be doing. And that’s never ended well.
It's hard and unpleasant. It's also dangerous, involuntary, and effectively uncompensated.

Job training can contribute to rehabilitation but most former inmates will never be able to work as firefighters because of their criminal records. This is exploitation of a group that is taboo to defend.
I know your pain. I'm the person who tries a dozen things and when none of them work, then grudgingly reads the manual, etc.

If your base doesn't help you launch, even in a small way, then you need to go below that base, back towards the fundamentals. I'm sure you learnt about logic gates, digital signals, transmission line effects, power glitches, etc. Unless you went to one of the well funded universities with youngish academics, then what you learnt was probably 5+ years behind the current state of the art. Add to that the years since you graduated. That is the knowledge gap in years that you need to traverse to establish an up to date base.

Until recently, I taught post-grad EE/SE (as an ex-industry, adjunct) at one of the country's top universities. My colleagues were dismayed at the inadequacy of STEM education of the first-year students. Year 1 has become a remedial school. Starting from such a low-level of knowledge 2-3 years doesn't provide enough time to teach all that is required to be successful in industry. In the field of digital electronics you typically need 3+ years of industry experience to become competent. Of course, motivated autodidacts can accomplish far more in far less time.
Alleging a violation after he asked for an API key, rather than simply turning him down or saying that he could experiment but that he would need to get agreement before deploying, seems like defamation to me.
There is no company-wide hiring freeze, but there’s teams/products/etc… who have them.

There’s other things going on though this will help spin.

There’s no way that productivity metric includes the last 2-4 months.
Unfortunately when you go to a party, you can’t change the music until you’ve told a few jokes that everyone laughed at.
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Yes, although it's strangely inconsistent. Usually I see that but occasionally I don't.

(nice to see you still commenting here btw!)
This is awesome! Did you know that swisstopo publishes a dataset of 3D models of many swiss buildings complete with accurate roof shapes?

I think version 3 is now in beta and last I checked they even covered remote areas and alp huts: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/landscape-model-swissbuild...
So their AI sales agent is absolutely amazing but they gotta hire more humans to sell it. Got it.
Awesome. Ocaml is my fav lang, and its a shame i wont get to use it for work.

Ocaml has really made me a better developer, and i strongly suggest anyone intrested in FP to give it a go.

The new dune release will also make project management smoother.

Congrats to the Ocaml team!
Climate change is not a variable in this scenario. Even if that's the actual cause it won't be changing anytime soon. The problem has to be dealt with anyway, and there are a lot of people saying it's due to lack of cleaning up the dry brush, not to mention taking preventative measures with water being ready to be used when it does happen.

This isn't a new problem or even a surprise. We had fires in NorCal the last few years already, and the people in charge are not afraid of losing their job, so there's no accountability until people start threatening them with a change.
Interesting, thanks for the feedback! By "taking the place of Playwright," we don't mean the AI itself is going to replace Playwright. Rather, you can continue to use existing Playwright code with new AI functionalities. In addition, we don't really intend for Stagehand to be used in a test suite (though you could!).

Rather, we want Stagehand to assist people who want to build web agents. For example, I was using headless browsers earlier in 2024 to do real-time RAG on e-commerce websites that could aggregate results for vibes-based search queries. These sites might have random DOM changes over time that make it hard to write sustainable DOM selectors, or annoying pop-ups that are hard to deterministically code against.

This is the perfect use for Stagehand! If you're doing QA on your own site, then base Playwright (as you mention) is likely the better solution
>the rot in the Silicon Valley ideology

What exactly is SV ideology?
> Is that just how CRM systems are? Is everybody just doing it wrong? What's the deal?

These kinds of tools cover 80% of what you want to do out-of-the-box.

For the remaining 20% to build it correctly you need to either hire expensive consultants or hire in-house staff to build.

Nobody budgets properly for this, and it isn't in the sales pitch, and so that last 20% is built as horrible spaghetti code by the cheapest possible devs / consultants.

Even if you wanted to pay good salaries and hire people in-house how many great engineers want to be limited to programming in Apex on salesforce?
Haha yep. And that’s only going to get worse, for reasons I doubt anyone wants to get into
I had something similar happen to me, not threaten with expulsion and I kind of deserved it.

This was back in late 1990s, a group I was part of was getting a web site made on the school pages and I wanted to contribute. I ran my mouth about my dislike of the current site (I was a dumbass) and for some reason hosted the site on my local computer in my room which was accessible everywhere on the network. I wasn’t going to run it permanently, I just wanted to showcase it. That got me in some trouble, what I said got back too, I got my room connection disconnected because we weren’t supposed to run servers.

I apologized, obviously disabled the server, and eventually got reconnected.
The Gemini build quality also left a lot to be desired. As well as the software. I liked the idea but I sold it in the end.
There's this ongoing effort by HN user sirobg:

Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42410582 - Dec 2024 (168 comments)

Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41539125 - Sept 2024 (372 comments)

I've been thinking for years about building support for offline meetups into HN itself somehow.
Good, but from the CO2 stats I've seen it seems they need to work harder and it will still take a few decades, so we'll have to deal with it anyway.
Soon-Shiong has aligned with Trump, and is openly forcing LA Times journalists to serve his interests. Usually a major newspaper owner would try to avoid the appearance of bias or of undermining the objectivity of the news.

https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-case-against-trump-kamala-e...

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5163293/la-times-editor...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/la-times-patri...
> “Flat earth” style economic denialism is not as cool as you seem to think.

Yeah, can you then point out an example of a city where densification worked to decrease the housing sale prices?

Tokyo? Nope.
Seattle? Definitely nope, even though its housing inventory grew by 25% within 12 years.
Moscow? Nope.

If it's so "round Earth", then there must be some early metrics that can indicate the success of densification railroading in places where it's been tried?

For example, Minneapolis went full cookoo nuts by abolishing parking requirements and the SFH zoning in 2019. They gave out the city to be screwed up by developers. How's it faring now? Oh, the price growth not only not slowed down, it ACCELERATED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ATNHPIUS33460Q

Do you know Mark Twain's definition of "insanity"?
Devcal.dev
Last year a team of two failed to start something up, however I didn't want to waste time, energy, etc that was spent on research and development done on the subject. instead, put them together under a domain and github persona.

If you search "calendar api", "calendar service" and similar things on hackernews + rest of the internet, most of the results are frustrating, yet fun.

If you are on the subject, please check it out. you may like it. it's 50% open source atm, not because I'm not aiming to be the next big thing, but the code is embarrassing enough to hide it. But it's fast (enough)...

Collaboration ideas, partnerships, feedback, hateful comments, all welcome. bonus: if anyone has enough free time and manages to hack it, i would love to learn from you + can give some tips or can send a bottle of delicious sardinian wine : )
How to make downsizing sound cool....
From Wikipedia:

The Santa Ana winds and the accompanying raging wildfires have been a part of the ecosystem of the Los Angeles Basin for over 5,000 years, dating back to the earliest habitation of the region by the Tongva and Tataviam peoples.

Honest question in good faith: For those that use the reductionist argument of global warming / climate change for every natural disaster, what do they expect to happen if we hypothetically cut all greenhouse gas production to zero? Some kind of climate stasis Garden of Eden scenario?
From the budget papers (page 11) themselves, $774 million went to salaries, $46 million to expenses.

https://cao.lacity.gov/budget/summary/2024-25%20Budget%20Sum...

Page 6 shows a water flow from revenues to expenditures.
Go Bears
I really don't care generally if a business feels the need to hype things like this - but these kinds of announcements have downstream effects on salaries and job availability far outside a company like this. Other management/C-suites are gonna hear "we replaced all our engineers with AI!" and similarly slow down hiring/etc. This is already being seen throughout the industry, I am aware, but such a visible player making an announcement like this, while it almost certainly is just marketing, drives me a little crazy because it indirectly affects a lot of people.
Economists have studied that question a lot, and the general result is that the theoretical models work quite well, even on substantially imperfect markets.

I think these concerns are pretty similar to the religious idea that "evolution is just a theory". Our human minds really don't want to admit any facts that would force us to change our world view.
They are hiring today. Complete BS from the CEO.

https://careers.salesforce.com/en/jobs/?page=1&team=Software...
Pogo pins should handle tons of connections yes. At work we used these for board testing through test points ("bed of nails") and i never heard of the pogo pins wearing out.

These were pretty long pogo pins though. They wouldn't fit in this thing.
I saw your point in your original post of being wary of what games you install since some come with crapware, but you've completely lost me here. For many people, perhaps even most people, the whole point of practicing their digital freedom and even owning a computer is to enjoy a game. The use of games in society and the use of anticheats to games is very obvious by every measure. Yes, don't install crap; no, multiplayer games shouldn't and aren't going anywhere.
Yes, the source of stress matters. I don't know a lot about the context of your question but just wanted to add that most companies offer Employee and Family Assistance Programs that covers counseling which can be an effective way of figuring out what to do about the non-work stressors.