skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sowing dissent is relatively easy, so I hope we defend against it.

However, on a military level, Russia is being held off by the Ukrainian people (and 37% of the Ukrainian economy) supported by foreign donations equivalent to the current military spending of any one of the United Kingdom (2.33% of the UK's GDP), Germany (2.12% of German GDP), or France (2.06% of French GDP).

If Poland was both threatened and totally isolated from allies, they could triple their military spend to equal the current Ukrainian forces plus all donations, and do so with only half the percentage of their GDP as compared to Ukraine.

Everyone would rather that this war goes away and they can return to spending money on things that are directly valuable, rather than the necessary but un-productive task of defending all the things we value.

But from a purely military perspective, ignoring how they may sow dissent, my only worry about Russia is that the nukes might not have had all their critical elements sold off in separate black market deals since the end of the cold war.
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I've been amazed by how many times I've had this conversation:

Applicant: "I love ${LANGUAGE} so much! It's amazing! I'm super passionate about it!"

Me: "Oh that's great! What are some things you like about ${LANGUAGE}, and one or two things you wish the language designers had done differently?"

Silence.

(Replace language with database, framework, etc. as needed).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42685138 is the one I always post in any mention if Discord or Slack because they are both walled gardens

In your specific case, you may have to self-host or pay because I don't believe your project would qualify under their open source hosting offering but it wouldn't hurt to ask
The Texas government decided that red light cameras can't enforce the law. That's how car-brained we are.

Muh privacy or something.
It's been available for less than half the time I've been using PostgreSQL. I stil consider it new.
To be pedantic they are giving away $150k of their own cash but they also provided 10 lifetime accounts which are visionary accounts that you never have to pay for.

Visionary accounts cost ~30 euro/month (assuming yearly subscription). That's currently more or less 30 USD/month and works out to 360 USD/year. Assuming those accounts get 60 years of use out of them that works out to 21600 USD in value/lost revenue. If you assume inflation of ~4% as a random number pulled out of my ass then that's 85k USD instead.

For 10 of those accounts that's 216k USD assuming no inflation and 850k USD assuming inflation.

So all in all that works out to closer to 360k USD in the naive case but more realistically it comes out to 1M USD flat with the inflation matched increase in service cost over that 60 year estimate.

Given this I don't think it's too terribly unfair to say that they are personally footing the bill. That's not to minimize the community's substantial contribution but the reward for this raffle realistically costs Proton as much to run long term as the raffle itself raises.
How had I not heard of this? adding to my reading list, this looks really good!
I've been with them from pretty much the start, and would say that two outages in the a few months is pretty uncharacteristic.

While the recent downtime did indeed affect my company, overall I've been really happy. Not being at the whim of Google's "oops we deleted your account" or "oops we've banned your account" has given me enough peace of mind that I wasn't too ruffled over the outages. Of course there would be a tipping point if the outages became a trend, but I am optimistic. My company also is fairly small in terms of mail volume, so that plays a part in the decision-making.
Musk is all over the newspapers praising nutjobs and spewing bullshit, as well.
The ideas are neat and both Landauer and Bennet did some great work and left a powerful legacy. The energetic limits we are talking about are not yet relevant in modern computers. The amount of excess thermal energy for performing 10^26 erasures associated to some computation (of say an LLM that would be too powerful for the current presidential orders) would only be about 0.1kWh, so 10 minutes of a single modern GPU. There are other advantages to reversibility, of course, and maybe one day even that tiny amount of energy savings will matter.
Has slashdot started showing ads in the last 48 hours for anyone else using Firefox and ublock on Android? It was a very weird experience to see an ad on my phone for the first time in over a decade. My brain kinda froze and took a second to process what it was seeing.
There is XMR (Monero) which solves the transparency issue of bitcoin and seems popular in the dark web.

I highly doubt I would find any dealer on the street taking crypto tho. Alone the transaction times of 10+ minutes don't fit in a real world drug exchange.
You could try to give a challenge that has a few hidden gotchas, and discard candidates that do not spot them. How to do this depends on the role you are hiring for.

For example, in our data scientist interviews we also candidates to analyze datasets with imbalanced classes, outliers, correlated samples, etc. Correctly dealing with these issues requires particular techniques, and most importantly the candidate has to explicitly check whether these issues are present or not. Those who use LLMs mindlessly will not even realize this is the case.
I mean, there certainly is a genre of "YouTuber", but there's lots of quality content. I just enjoyed a little 20 minute history of the Panasonic 3DO console that I managed to never hear about before.
Recruiters and agents have been solving this problem for years. Firms hire a recruiter for jobs that they actively want to fill. Applicants hire a job agent. Those two meet. Very little incentive for spam in this relationship.

The problem, of course, is mismatched incentives for the middlemen versus the clients, particularly at the margins. Similar to real-estate brokers. They may be effective in many ways, but they are looking for pareto-efficiency, where they get you 80% of the match (or 80% of the pay) or whatever for 20% of their effort.

It's hard to imagine any incentive scheme between buyers (hiring managers) and sellers (applicants) that wouldn' be subject to the same market mechanics, even if at lesser scales when done through more automated means.

I don't think crypto really has anything to do this.
I used to be really pro Elon Musk, I love the advancements in space tech but man I'm sad of his behavior. I'm not a "hate rich people" guy, I know they say to think you can become one is a joke or something but yeah. I do believe in trying/possibility too. I'm proof of it in a small way.
One part of me is itching to do it. Another part of me can't let it go that I can't beat leetcode interviews. I'm quite close, I think I can do it.

I guess it's an ego thing. But not fully though is it? Earning a couple of years of FAANG money opens one up to then just travel the world. I'm from the EU but will make the switch to the US in about a year from now (marriage). So from that perspective, I just don't know if it's strategic. When you have $300K in the bank and you just go to SE asia, you also have "no schedule" etc.

That should be doable with FAANG. I do feel this path delivers more impact though as life becomes a bit more like a game and you're creating your own quests. You're solving things that you are quick enough at to solve but also things that you find important or just simply fun.

Man, I'm torn. Both take quite a bit of a time investment. I'm not sure how I can monetize a "leetcode with me" type of thing. If there was still a market for that, I might do that to start both things off at the same time. Maybe I should just become a Twitch streamer :') But I don't think that'd pay off. I guess it wouldn't hurt to try.
Your questions are pointless. I have no interest in CS puzzles at all, I don't memorize or practice them, and that's what you're testing for. I write code to build stuff.

Why not have a conversation with them about things they have built instead? Not form questions that say "tell us about a time you encountered a problem you had to solve" but an actual conversation. Like... an interview.
I got sent back to the office where I work in an open floor plan cramped next to people and were all on our own video meetings. Its awful.
If you'd like to experience the Malört of teas, you are looking for "Bitter Nail Tea" also known as Kuding, described as "one of the bitter substances you can safely ingest".

https://www.saveur.com/ridiculously-bitter-chinese-tea-that-...
As a consultant, switching between my many clients, testing, and home accounts is simply Alt+F+B+Arrow down ("Open new container tab"), all within the same UI, in the same window, with colored tabs, with the same extensions, and same password manager.

I've been in situations needing up to half a dozen different Microsoft accounts (multiple Teams clients in Firefox, for instance), other browsers haven't solved this daily use-case for me.

It's an easier account management tool.
Are you talking about roundabouts? Those are a nightmare for pedestrians
I think you're confusing the issue. Cable TV wasn't coming into mainstream that was the problem. The issue was the 1996 Telecommunications Act that was the starting gun.
FTC Prepares to Sue Greystar, Largest U.S. Apartment Landlord, over Hidden Fees
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/ftc-prepares-to-sue-largest-...
This is an annoying change, but the cars in the video weren't actually running any red lights.
Doesn't help the case to exaggerate.
My manager mostly just asks everyone if "it'll be done today" and tries to constantly subdivide tasks as infinitum (never read the mythical man month)
This looks really interesting! It looks like there's a founders at work too which might be a good read for different reasons.
Using your coding skills:
1) make hello-world-ish portfolio
2) sell courses how to make money using coding skills
3) PROFIT
It's pretty clear there that half of the problem was caused by liberalization of student work, while other half (urban rents) was mostly consequence of horrendously irresponsible way that privatized social (not public) property through Jazbinšek law.
On how you display your prices:

In the EU you're not allowed to advertise a price without all taxes. This means that per country you need to know the VAT % and adjust the price accordingly. You cannot change the price per EU country. You set a base price for the EU and add VAT. Since VAT differs per country this will cause non-round numbers. But this is expected.
Aquifer Beneath Oregon's Cascades Could Be the Largest in the World
Good luck when the TCP or SSL stack has an issue. These bugs are rare but they do exist and you're getting fucked royally if your entire perimeter defense was a basic auth prompt.

Windows and Linux have both had their fair share of network stack bugs, OpenSSL had Heartbleed and a few other bugs, and hell you might even run into bugs in Apache or whatever other webserver you are using.
Having gone through the San Francisco public schooling system, I would never send my kids there.

I'd rather home school them if I lived in San Francisco, or if I have money, send them to private school.
Similar here in the US yet and probably an unpopular thing to say but him buying Twitter / X was a major push in the US pendulum (zeitgeist) swinging from the left to the right. Himself a pendulum of the left and the right who swings either ways at his whim and or when it behooves him. He doesn't stand for either side just his ideologies and desires and with $444 billion net worth he can change societies as he chooses and has done and is doing openly.

Recently he posted about disliking Mackenzie Bezo's donations to various far left groups which is rich and laughable.
The lack of adoption of best practices from other countries is generally baffling to me. When I first visited China grim Europe and saw traffic lights with countdowns (like in the US) I thought we did immediately adopt this in Europe. Cultural inertia and lack of looking outwards is really frustrating.
sugar water & potato chips vs democracy?

it's a modern marvel though how readily available sugar water and potato chips are at almost every grocery store.
The EV market remains roughly the same size, Tesla is independently tanking.
This presumes that MrBeast intended to create "videos with meaning" in the first place.

In his defense (!?), most of what's churned out by the streaming platforms, hollywood, and the music industry, is also not very bothered by lack of meaning.
Which standards are you referring to?
> I captured two drivers ripping through red lights in that short span

Video actually shows two cars entering the intersection on yellow lights, which is legal. The rest of the article seems similarly exaggerated.

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Edit: For those who disagree, please be aware that the stop lines are out of frame, so both cars are already in the intersection before they're visible on the video. You can get a better picture of what the intersection actually looks like here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/L37hZyvXs8BeWmFE8
I've been using the silly hack of using two versions of Firefox side-by-side (so, multiple browsers but they are both Firefox today), one which is Default in the OS and focuses on a single profile and Container Tab management. The other launches into the ProfileManager at startup to choose a Profile and doesn't pick up random links because it isn't Default.

Better Profile Management tools may be nice to see. Maybe I won't need dueling builds of Firefox. Or maybe I'll keep it, we'll see.
I’ve never heard of, or met, a job agent. More info?
I had a $5 a month VPS that cost $300 a month to run because it didn't have enough RAM and was swap-happy and running up incredible I/O costs against EBS. The $10 a month VPS was a lot cheaper.

In your case a Lambda could be cheaper still.
The overlap of hams and preppers is pretty large.. Most of those guys are of a particular mindset that only meshes with other like minded individuals.
Yes. Forgot about it. I keep the history clean, too. But it's only fractionally better.
> YouTubers are not “Creators” but Creations

This is such a broad and general statement for a platform that is unfathomably big.

I don't any of the mass market Mr Beast, Nastya, Ryan videos on my feed. At all. I get smaller (but still large) creators with videos that actually engage the mind. Example: https://www.youtube.com/@blancolirio

But I guess that's the distinction between a Youtuber and Creator.
I disagree with the carpenter-hammer analogy here pretty strongly.

We're basically trying to figure out if they can code generally, or if somehow they've skated by in their last positions without the fundamental skills of programming.

I'm not sure how, but we've come across a number of programmers from F1000 companies that can't seem to hit some of the basics in their chosen language.

LLMs have their place as a tool, but before we empower them with the latest and greatest programming assistance, we want to make sure that they have the skills to do things like critically interpret the output of Copilot, etc.

We want to make sure we're that the people we hire possess the skills they claim, and that they won't serve as a very-slow wrapper for the LLM tools we already pay for.
I believe it's actually...

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
It's a political distraction to keep the working class fighting themselves while the wealth class continues to pilfer.
Neat! Would love to see some cues to get the searches going and make it stick as a better resource off the bat. Maybe a “Try searching…” that shows some complicated buzzwords. I ended up racking my brain and searching “bernoulli random variable” (binary random outcome) and then really liked the fun result for “linked list” (nodes holding hands). Great work! I’ll try to use this!
On HN's comment section, the sentiment seems to be "Unions benefit common workers, but I am the one uniquely well-paid hard worker that is skilled at negotiaton who would not be advantaged by a union." Everyone seems to think that they are the captain of their industry and couldn't possibly benefit from coordinating with everyone else.
Tesla has too much competition and their CEO is part-time. Boggles my mind that the stock is priced so high relative to their financial metrics.
> Why don’t lights ever sit idle with the pedestrian crossing on and the cars must wait?

The author knows the answer as well as most readers do: because the intersection is being designed with cars in mind, not human beings.
The Plethora of Problems with Safety Profiles (C++)
And why does he post this on January 2025, not January 2024 or 2023?

Why did he magically started calling out wokeness issue only after Trump's win?

Weak
>The story focuses on a redesign of one intersection in this town. The case highlights how we’ve elevated the value of moving cars quickly at the expense of everything else, even in highly walkable areas.

We should all expect this kind of regressing in walking. Pedestrians and cyclists don't seem to understand how this always will be a car-by-default country due to lifestyle. Yes, there are several cities bucking the trend with exceptions, but those exceptions are either economically able to buck that car-first engineering trend and build massive bike and walking infra or they have exceptional transportation alternatives (train, bus, and subway).
Where’s the plausible deniability to using the n word? I guess if you were singing? But I don’t think that’s the example you had in mind here.
who needs scammers when you have the real Elon selling full self driving.
I think the above commentor is right, in my opinion, intensification shapes our world into being very reactionary, with only a superficial understanding of issues

In fairness, this is how the world has always been.

In the US for instance, back when there were only 3 networks and a channel for public tv, people were "reactionary, with only a superficial understanding of issues".
I've been having to do stuff "as soon as possible" for over a year now. I'm at a mid sized company and in many ways the nagging to deliver ASAP is beyond even when I founded my own company.

And if something is gonna take a few days or a week, all the managers do is ask me five times if I can instead divide the work and farm it out to other engineers. If it isn't taking on the order of hours, they want to throw people at it to go faster. Parallelism is clearly a manager KPI.
This is an interesting direction - especially benchmarking against GPT and telling the candidate we are.

Do you have any suggestions about the type of questions we could be asking here?
The headline is somewhat begging the question,
but the author's key observation is on point:
People homeschooling their kids are implicitly,
and sometimes explicitly,
going for "opt out of being around average people".
I Germany car registrations were 1% down in 2024 compared to 2023. Tesla sold 41 percent fewer cars in Germany in 2024 compared to 2023.

Official data: https://www.kba.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Fahrzeugzula...
I'm on a Mac, so I use Safari, too, but were I on any other platform I can't imagine NOT using Firefox.

How did we get to a point where the dominant browser is designed to be hostile to user choice?
Kerberos is old neckbeard tech, highly complex to set up, with layers upon layers of legacy garbage. Trying to get it working is ... a nightmare, I prefer even the
garbagefest that is Keycloak over dealing with Kerberos. At least that just requires somewhat working DNS and doesn't barf when encountering VPNs, split horizon DNS or split tunnels.

The only places I've seen a working Kerberos setup outside of homelabs is universities (who can just throw endless amounts of free student labor power onto solving any IT problem) and large governments and international megacorps.
a prerequisite of “offensive security research” is that it is solicited, no ifs or buts.

what they did was absolutely wrong and frankly likely illegal
different is a matter of use case.
The difference doesn't matter to the applicant. It probably does if you propose the death penalty for posting fake listings.
We have web standards, but one area they breakdown is adoption of those standards.

Each browser seems to pick and choose which standards they want to adopt and when. Sometimes Chrome will support a new CSS syntax for months or years before another browser finally picks up support (or vice versa).

For web standards to truly work, there would need to be better coordination between browsers to adopt new standards in unison. Until then, developers (should) keep track of whether the syntax they're using is supported by all major browsers. Or, develop just for Chrome, which seems to be favored by most.
Unpopular opinion: truly "passive" income should be impossible, because this means someone is working hard but not receiving their compensation.

EDIT: of course unless it's the robots that do all the work, but then it's not really passive...
This is one of those features a proper search engine (i.e., not a thinly-veiled advertising network) should have. If users can customize their search results and share their sorting/filtering methods, then that presents a large number of constantly-moving targets that greatly drives up the cost of SEO. There's no "making the Google algorithm happy." Instead, it becomes more "making the users happy."
> > There's a fundamental problem with generating a beautifully typeset document for a codebase: it's dead. [...]

I think this is false. The typeset document should only be the output of a rendering/compilation step, of a document that exists in plain text. Usually that is the case. Why would one throw away the source once the typeset document is created? One would then simply edit the source, just like we do with other code that runs.

> > You can't work with it, you can't try to make changes to it to see what happens, and you certainly can't run it interactively.

Yes you can. Just normal compile cycle. What am I missing here?
Ironically, the right to privacy was questioned by Alito when he helped nullify Roe v Wade. It will be "interesting" to see what other things we consider private aren't private in the eyes of this court. And even more "interesting" to see the converse.
> I would never send my kids there.

Why not,
what's wrong with it?
What could you do better at home,
or what could private schools do better?
My buddy works at Salesforce and they are started to enforce RTO for a few days a week in Seattle.

There are two kickers to this. First the employees have to hot-desk, which means they do not have an assigned desk and have to find a spot each day. Funnily enough, they all had desks before the pandemic...

Secondly, there is a second office essentially just for executives that is elsewhere and not connected to the main one. If Salesforce wants to complain about the cost of owning buildings and getting people to RTO maybe close the superfluous executive office first...
The power dynamics between employee and employer are such that the employer ought to foot the bill for that on their own. Candidates really shouldn't have to go to an agent to find a job.

The employer doesn't need to hire an external recruiter either. They just need an HR team that actually does anything other than protecting against liabilities and aggressively managing labor costs down. Most of HR is a practical joke of questionable taste.