skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suppose it’s an ease-of-access thing

In a sense, that is much of what computers are - ease of access. What's the difference between millions of of paper documents in a warehouse, and a live database with the same information instantly accessible, processable, etc.? I suppose it's just 'ease of access'.

But it is all the difference in the world. One does not compare to the other. FOIA requests - which take paperwork, must specify the thing requested, and sometimes years to resolve - don't compare to live access to the databases and applications and personnel.
They legally don't have secrets but they practically do have secrets.
well, projects are a party trick too
Leonid Levin Q&A (2019)
Leave and start new startup? Solely bootstrapped.
> Are houses and private schools cheaper in London?

They are cheaper than that everywhere in the world. I think you need to realise that you are in the upper 0.001% of earners in the world and your expenses to the rest of us seem absolutely ridiculous.

$6k per month mortgage?

My entire expenses are less than half that, I have 2 kids and I consider myself to be middle class and doing ok.
Did they get supercharged or did they get co-opted?
It stops being funny when you realize the root cause of this posturing is mental health issues. These people are unwell.
That's a vague answer that doesn't answer my specific question. I also have a STEM degree (electrical engineering) but would never be considered for finance roles.
I thought it was about digital communication over 4-20mA devices.
Fizz buzz is a toy problem. I think it’s a mistake to read too much into anything but basic programming skills while using it as an interview question. If you want to test code quality and maintainability you are much better off with a more realistic problem.
Because the social security numbers, health records, or geographic details of people who have interacted with the government shouldn’t be open to the general public, for one.
The __LINE__ macro, like all other macros, is expanded during the preprocessing of the source code and is not handed to the debugger in any way.
> He probably isn't really a Nazi.

He's been promoting Nazist ideas for a year.

And he took part in the AfD's big meeting (you know, the closest thing to a modern Nazi Party in Germany) downplaying what the Nazis did.

If he acts like a Nazi then we need to call him a Nazi and stop coming up with weird excuses for him.
Neither Albany, NY not Sacramento, CA feel like the centers of their states.
Maybe its time for the government to be public by default.
I see what you mean. According to this map, you can get from the 18th. street station to the 1st ave. stop on the L in ten minutes, but not from 14th. street.
It would come down to the individual departments.

They demand access. Some departments give it up. Others say no. It goes over to the inspector general of the department, who may end up consulting with the Attorney General, who will surely approve. If that doesn't work, they go to the courts to resolve.

That's not supposed to ever happen, but it's the rules for when one department of the government is fighting another.

So it's not as easy as the article makes it sound. But it's either a significant blow to the Deep State or a pogrom of the civil service, depending on your point of view.
Is it Heartbleed again?
It's just one :) https://github.com/dddddddddzzzz/open-heart-element/blob/mai...
No mention of energy density compared to existing batteries?
All of that is exempt from FOIA already. In the case of other government agencies I'm sure they aren't allowed to disclose it either.
I hadn't heard the term "script kiddie" in a very long time.

But it seems that's most of what Software Engineers do lately, spending most of our coding time figuring out the arbitrary bureaucracy (not fundamentals, nor insightful inventions) dumped on us, by the massive piles of stuff churned out by other people. Such that we understand very little of what we do, and consequently create very little.

Do people still say "script kiddie", or does it resonate a lot differently than it used to, maybe a little too close to home?
https://www.justice.gov/d9/what_are_the_9_foia_exemptions.pd...
Simply displacing a population can make an area more wealthy but it does little for the overall population.

So, I don’t think we care about land here but rather people.
CodeAcademy:
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/computer-architecture-assem...

MIT open courseware:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-004-computation-structures-spr...
> The engineers and developers just got the green light for every good idea they can come up with.

Where in the world is this idea coming from? What part of their new mandate makes you think engineers and developers suddenly have a blank check to do whatever they want?
> What happens to all its engineers and developers?

The clever ones will leave. The naïve ones will become legal fodder for the rest of their careers. The lucky ones will make an impression on a billionaire and become rich from the proximity.

On the whole, the country may benefit from having young, talented and naïve engineers engaging in tasks at the boundaries of the legally permissable. It works for VC, after all. (The difference being you don't get personally bankrupted with legal bills in startups if you're wrong.)
Web-Based Remote Garage Door Controller
This DIY DoorController project provides a web-based solution for controlling a garage door remotely. It includes a minimally invasive design with a magnetic reed switch for detecting door states and an NPN transistor for simulating button presses on a generic garage door remote. The software runs on the Xedge32 platform, offering a web interface that can be added to mobile home screens for app-like functionality. The project also supports email logging by configuring SMTP settings and emphasizes security with password protection.
The entire software interviewing mindset is horrible: the interviewee has no idea at any given time if the interviewer is actually looking for : versatility, years of experience in one particular language, generality, experience in their EXACT stack, the ability to follow exact dumb/arbitrary rules/procedures, social tolerance to managers making dumb and arbitrary decisions, will you spill the beans about your previous employers illegal and dumb acts, do you know about our exact industry, does it seem like we can exploit you for as long as possible with minimal raises, do you follow the same esoteric "clean code" rules we have chosen all of our previous hires for, or any other random thing that they will never articulate to you.

While good employees are always just thinking: cool i will try something smart to make them think i am smart, or ok i will follow these dumb exact things to make sure they know i am obedient, jesus christ why cant i just play a video of me doing this from last week, i guess i better try it a different way since that way didnt get me hired, i guess i need to dance this angle to the moon this time...

At least AI will stop all of this nonsense
The Nature of Thinking
Pretty bad, overall. I got diddlysquat out of LinkedIn when I was job hunting 10+ years ago but then I got nothing out of my other leads, either. I was old back then and older now so I am staying at my employer until I'm fired, retired, or expired. LI may be required these days to get anywhere, I just adjusted my travel plans so I didn't need to deal with its BS or the general Talent Acq/HR gauntlet required to get past square one. Probably not helpful to you but there it is...
> How is that not the coolest plot line?

Potentially- when making mistakes or overstepping boundaries affect and in very real terms ruin actual peoples' lives
Depends on how far from the airport you are, and the accuracy of the timestamp. If you have accurate-to-the-second timestamps and you're within maybe 10km of the airport I think you could get down to a neighborhood pretty easily.

You know roughly the perspective that the camera sees the plane from, so you take the plane position at that timestamp and project that perspective line down onto the ground. The higher the plane, the more error there is with estimating the observation axis, so the less accurate this gets.
followed by an agreement with the headphones manufacturers that the device be ratchet strapped around your head, with DRM on the headphone jack to enforce this
Yes, that’s exactly right. These are secrets the unclassified part of the government has. Being secrets they are exempt from FOIA.
They have lots of confidential information. Some examples:

* Many agencies - for example, the IRS, Medicare, Social Security, FEMA, agencies that provide loans, or any other service - have lots of information on individual citizens.

* Many agencies have information or make decisions that would distort markets if leaked - it's release must be carefully managed - such as the departments of Treasury, Labor, Commerce; or the Federal Reserve.

* The Department of Justice has lots of information pertaining to lawsuits and investigations that must be kept secret.

etc.
Nobody counts how many lives bureaucrats have also ruined. The IRS alone…
But JSON mappings are ordered. The thing producing/consuming them might choose to map them to an unordered mapping but inherent to them being serialized is you get an order for free.
It also creates this weird power imbalance. 'Advanced economies' are supposed to be just that, yet 'developing economies' cutting off their grain, steel and manufacturing is a far bigger threat than an advanced economy cutting off digital services, luxury goods, and financial markets.
That's a wide range, isn't it?
403/404 seems to be the response to GET, not POST. In which case 405 Method Not Allowed would be better.
I can't speak for the original commenter, but for me, it serves to remind me that I'm working with some very talented engineers, which feels good. Plus I think it helps to build trust, which is useful when you're not seeing eye-to-eye on some technical or product issues.
Why not just use pastebin for a "hey I left ur drugs at this coord", or even just a plain ol' encrypted message over email, Signal, etc...? I'm a little lost here, probably due to naivete. Is the storage of URLs or crypto wallet pointers really the bottleneck for cybercrime?
I have an entirely seperate phone and SIM for any service I think is important which demands a phone number. (prepay, I top it up by €5 every few months. Sadly I can't automate that)

I generally refuse to give any number if I can help it. I can count on one hand the number of unsolicited calls/texts I've gotten.
Im struggling to understand the math here. If a mortgage is 12k per month, how much does the house cost in total and how long is the mortgage term?

I mean in a year, thats $144k.
> reflecting an average decrease from two to one

What this really seems to be saying is more like "men generally don't have emotional support networks".
And so the real deep state begins. ;)
Attributing a NRO mission patch to the Obama Administration is quite a bit of a stretch. There is a long tradition of mission patches for all sorts of things in the military and they are generally not dictated from the top down.
You assume that this isn't reasonable or logical, apparently because it may imply bad things about Trump. There's nothing about Trump (or really anyone) that makes bad things unreasonable or illogical.
There's a lot that you can't get via FOIA. You can't just go on a fishing expedition. A lot of stuff is unclassified but personal, and restricted.

This potentially gives you access to everything. Such access is supposed to be about the system itself and not the data within (just like your sysadmin can theoretically look at your files but promised not to). But hey, who's watching, and to whom would they complain?
I think banks / insurance companies are looking for solid math skills. If you can learn / work with higher math for physics, you can work with financial math.
> remember that the TSA is one of multiple agencies also operating under these provisions by having a permanent pseudo-temporary organization status

Totally incorrect. The TSA was created by an act of Congress, ATSA [1]. DOGE is legally equivalent to the Federalist Society or Greenpeace.

> why the TSA gets away with turnover and hiring standards that would be forbidden in other branches

Again, no. You're referring to the FLSA [2]. TSA is specifically exempted from FLSA [3], as are tonnes of other agency roles.

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-107publ71/pdf/PLAW-...

[2] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/claim-de...

[3] https://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/files/foia-readingroom/110...
But we need silos to protect your data from greedy AIs...So we can better package it and sell it to wealthy AIs.
Hiring manager here!

While living off of porridge shouldn’t be necessary, I will say the porridge at the training ground is absolutely top tier.
SPF is so bad we basically do allow it
"Emotional support networks among men shrink by 50% between the ages of 30 and 90, reflecting an average decrease from two to one emotional support providers"

Or, to rephrase,

"Men grow up with an average of two emotional support providers and lose one in mid to late adulthood"
data. stem people can do math and data analysis.
You might head over to the datacenter forum webhostingtalk.com which is riddled with colo types who might help you out.
This probably refers to emojis made out of multiple codepoints (e.g. skin color + person, or flags which are built out of the country code in a special range).
Information and Independence in Mathematical Theories (1984) [pdf]
Oh, I misread. Indeed, 4xx makes sense for a GET.
i'm about to do it myself. the streaming services are just generally putting out shitty content (there's the occasional gem), charging more, and creating more and more walled gardens. it sucks to be a consumer right now other than the "ease" in which you can access these services.
VSCode is currently more complete than Zed but Zed is more configurable. Also I suspect that Zed will improve rapidly and VSCode is mostly already plateaued due to Zed being new and open source and VSCode being old and made by Microsoft.

Also I’m not immune to hype I suppose
I think it's a bit more subtle than that. For one the author tells us they think this is an example of success story. Although I guess it depends on when you are measuring from, and they may be being somewhat tongue in cheek with their choice of East Germany

I think the point is that we would expect East German cities to have reasonable relative growth post-unification because we are taking a relatively structurally deprived area within a wider more successful economy.

That Manchester has kept up with areas where you'd expect to see reasonable growth, is positive. I suppose there's also the hint that this suggests that this has been allowed to happen by central government, but I could be making that up.
>as a gooner

As A WHAT now?
Existing payment methods, paypal, google pay etc, have been absolutely crucial for internet payments, but the micro in the word never ends.

If there are internet payments with a minimum payment of 1 cent, then we need payments of 0.1 cents. If that's achieved, then we need 0.01 cents minimum transaction. The micro in the transaction always needs to be smaller (and faster).

Free competition (or perfect competition) over a well defined landscape, internet protocols that is, has proven to always deliver better quality goods and lower price. Money derived from governments is far, far from free competition, let alone well defined internet protocols, and there is a point in which existing payment methods get stuck and cannot deliver smaller transactions.

I don't personally know where and when that point is, but if i have to guess, existing payment methods have reached that minimum point for at least a decade. In other words, their transactions minimums have to be high enough for them to make a profit. Yes, they can implement microtransactions, but they will not be profitable.
Rocket science is surprisingly straightforward, it's rocket engineering that's the tricky one.
Let me just say that as a European citizen these US government shutdowns sound downright ridiculous, not even sure how else to put it.

And this is just observing from very far, with the tiniest inconveniences like people not being given tickets for state parks etc.pp.

We had a thing with the Belgian government 10 years ago and basically everyone in another country was scratching their head.

I'm not hinting at everything being perfect here but you seem to be forgetting that governments should work for the people, not against them.
Did he consider an absence of criticism to be praise of his management technique?
> Maybe its time for the government to be public by default

Have you filed a FOIA request?
This might indicate moreso that they believe they won't lose anything by the transition and users might ultimately benefit
You mean by collecting taxes?
Same thing as what happened to engineers at X. Asked to pledge loyalty and demonstrate their usefulness to Musk (and Trump), otherwise be fired.
Fact is, AfD is not a Nazi party, or they would be illegal in Germany. They are far right, and could easily evolve into a neo-Nazi party. But you need to check a plurality of certain boxes to be considered a Nazi, and right now they don't check that many of them.

It is true that Musk himself is checking more and more of them every day, though.
Agents suck – but it can be better
Watching Agents try to complete tasks is like watching a drunk person trying to solve a Rubik's cube. Entertaining? Yes. Reliable? Not always!

However. Instead of asking an LLM to "do the whole thing" (which is indeed prone to inconsistency) and thus letting LLMs run wild like unsupervised toddlers maintaining the "do not press" buttons at a nuclear facility. A FLAT approach puts control and predictability to LLM interactions by treating them more like traditional programming constructs but enhanced with LLM's natural language understanding. like:

- Binary decisions (gates)
- Limited classification (using match/case)
- Structured data extraction (using Pydantic models)
- well typed function calling

Anywho, Would love to hear your thoughts on an experiment F.L.A.T (Frameworkless LLM Agent... Thing) https://github.com/mindsdb/flat-ai

Showcasing that it is possible to leverage the power of LLMs in Agents though absolute simplicity:
Yeah there's a lot of other neat tricks you can do with it. Someone else in this thread observes that a major issue for most Rails apps is latency. Loading a page does 100 blocking queries serially which means 100 roundtrips (minimum), the latency from that adds up and before you know it your fast computers are taking seconds to render a page.

Although it often gets lost inside app frameworks, you can use the Oracle drivers to dispatch every query at once in one request, or even just execute a stored procedure that has all the queries for a page registered inside the DB then work through the results from each query client-side. So you can really optimize the latency heavily if you can structure your app in such a way that it can exploit such things. JDBC supports this for instance but Active Record doesn't.
I don’t think it is wild for people with skills to do this job.
> the London housing market, which I’ve heard to be similarly absurd.

No matter how absurd it is, Ive never heard of a 6k per month mortgage, that is absolutely insane.
Trump just fired about a dozen inspectors general.
Musk Exploring Blockchain Use in US Government Efficiency Effort
This typically goes to the higher level of government. Not the local one that manage and build that transit system.
Honestly, probably at time pretty affordable lesson in thinking what you run when you download from web, and importance of backups.
A bank is a very diverse organism. There was a group at our bank, they knew very little English and none of the business/economy. Their task was to solve differential equations, something physicists are trained to do.
Yeah, it was more like a joke of the team, rather than something serious with wide implications.
Interest on deposits includes IORB from the federal reserve, which is the safest investment for them, current > 4%
I'm not the one complaining. I'm just saying this has nothing to do with tree-shaking.
Any idea how many women have?

The form of this study was specific to men and very long-running, so I don't know where you'd get comparable data. Still, it would be interesting to take a stab at it. Is it 2? 1? 10?
GP said "write" not "rewrite"...
Trump supporters are going to go through a few things these next four years. I wonder if you will tire of carrying water for him or will do it to the end, even when he refuses to step down and demands a mandate for life.
Depends on what kind of problems mostly. If you need metrics, Prometheus and its ecosystem is as simple as it gets on or off Kubernetes. There are good quality “packages” for any kind of “infrastructure as code” solutions, like Ansible too.

For logs, there’s Loki which is a lot saner choice than ELK in 2025.

To have proper troubleshooting abilities, you will need a bit more than tooling. You should also need to spend some time instrumenting your apps (Prometheus exporters can only take you to a certain level, e.g. node_exporter for host level stats, or other technology-specific exporters) with metrics, and ensure that your apps are logging in a structured way at least.
America is cooked
https://krita.org/en/release-history/

31-04-1999: the KImageShop project is started by Matthias Elter.

08-07-1999: the first commit is pushed
Doesn’t seem AT is advanced enough yet because nobody else but Bluesky is able to run a server.
Due to Amdahl's law, you surely don't get 32x write throughput from having 32 write masters however.
Having spent my teen years in backwater Sacramento, I can confirm that it did not feel much like the center of anything.

Adding a few more examples to your list, neither Olympia (WA), Salem (OR), nor Carson City (NV) are economic or social centers of their respective states.
Nonsense. For something like a car you need an actual contract, a handful of SMS messages isn't binding for things over $500 iirc.
joke's on you, as the Wikipedia article states it's an engineering in-joke. Of course, someone still had to pick it up and someone else had to approve it, but the idea for it still came from the bottom.

The ODNI gave a more mundane explanation for the patch design in an internal magazine, stating that it originated from an engineering in-joke regarding a piece of cabling called an "octopus harness" that caused problems during testing for the satellite, leading the engineering team to joke that "the octopus harness had taken over the world."
"Reform" means identifying and eliminating political enemies. No need for the loyalty pledges Project 2025 outlines, just use AI on all employees messages, emails, tax returns etc they will have access to.
The article is angling at grid scale storage where price and longevity are the dominating factors.
> The DOGE is, effectively, a group of auditors.

That's a pretty big leap. What is it based on?

The OP article says the new USDS's program seems designed to identify and weed out political opponents.
Men typically rely on their wives as their sole emotional support, and then people are surprised when 70% of divorces are initiated by women.