skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I have spreadsheets of my job hunts since 2012 - 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2023 and 2024. The job I got in 2020 just fell in my lap.

2008 was the last time I had to randomly apply for jobs because I stayed at my second job for over 9 years and had no network.

The only time I randomly applied for jobs was last year and the year before even though I had no expectations of it working.

My response rate from using local external recruiters that I had built a relationship with (before 2020) has been 100%.

I had three rejections between 2012-2020.
Post 2022, my response rate through recruiters, my network and targeted outreach, has still been 100%. My success rate has been 5/7 for getting an offer - around 70%.
I guess he promised to commute his sentence, then later changed his mind to pardon him:

>I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross. The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1138691127416...
huh, actually not that bad
Is there anything like this for Toyota DCM?

We bought a second-hand 2021 Highlander and thus did not sign any contract allowing our family to be tracked by Toyota. I went on a hunt recently for information on neutering the DCM but have thus far only found speculation and contradictory info.
If any of you interested in more details on compression, and in use, take a look at "Bit-mapped graphics" by Steve Rimmer and "The data compression book" by Mark Nelson.
No code AI agent builders for business users
I believe LZ + Huffman hit a sweet spot in ratio/speed/complexity, and that's why it has remained very popular since the late 80s. It's only more recently that faster hardware made arithmetic coding with higher-order models fast enough to be practically usable.
Hmm really? My Camry made it nearly 10 years, and my Civic still had a good battery 6 years in when I sold it.

Regardless, the battery and DCM were both tested by Subaru. The battery tested bad, and the DCM tested for a high parasitic draw. I drove the car daily, and the battery would die if I didn't drive it for 4 days. I didn't just make this up either, search "DCM parasitic draw" on Google for more. Subaru even sent me a letter outlining my options for repairs.
Some things are too fundamental to be simple "disagreements" in a society. Disagreements over slavery led to the Civil War.
To save whoever reads this a click, it's a link to an irrelevant article about the problems and ethics of measuring accuracy of commonly held beliefs based in prejudice along racial, gender and similar lines. It's presented instead of evidence of the accuracy of the earlier generalisation, because such evidence does not exist.
Remote start, climate etc from the app all require and always on connection (how else?). Tesla has the same thing.

I use the remote app often - quite useful.
Why Is Vancouver So Insanely Expensive?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPcGL3Tfac

Sorry I really don't like YouTube for political content. Any text summaries of how they get citizenship quickly after crossing illegally?

> it was way too easy for illegal immigrants to get into the US

That's moving the goalposts. You said citizenship, not just getting in.

> which is unfair for the legal immigrants that went through much more trouble

And even more trouble now. So even more unfair...
> Yeah, that's when they're still economically dependent

It goes deeper than that. Being surrounding by poor and suffering people sucks. Most people can’t block out that level of suffering and may even feel guilt.

No doubt there are some clinical psychopaths out there to whom that doesn’t apply but I think it’s broadly true.

It’s much easier to block out when people or poor but still sorta ok. So yes I think it’s going towards some sort of UBI. A low and grim UBI but UBI anyway
Who knows where this is going.

Given gSquirrel's direction finding ability, they could be releasing a headset or they could be apologizing to HTC. Or it is a combo of both.

Hard to believe they could be launching anything by the time Quest 4 ships.
Working across cultures is so wild.

I worked in situations where things were outsourced and yeah the Indian experience was horrific. But that also was influenced by the nature of the relationship.... they didn't work "for us" in any real way.

I worked for a company where we (a Midwestern company) were acquired by a valley company and at HQ there was a clear divide between the Indian (US citizens, not H1B) folks and the local CA team. It wasn't bad, but you could see it socially and feel the vibe and such.

I traveled there a few times and I was just friendly and ... man they were great. Very friendly, very professional, and highly capable.

Sometimes I think the business relationships also creates the informal "working culture" too.
Ask HN: Did Jack Dorsey cancel FOSDEM 2025?
Links to his talk and speaker profile are dead.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infusing-open-source-culture-into-company-dna-a-conversation-with-jack-dorsey-and-manik-surtani-block-s-head-of-open-source/

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/speaker/jack_dorsey/
This seems like great work. Are there any practical implications like being able to flash my car with Android Auto or turn off telemetry?
Same. I stopped "caring" about math when we started to learn polynomials. Binomials..ok. Trinomials...ok. But then it just became repetitive when the class was just adding more terms to the functions that over the semester I ended up spending most of the class daydreaming.
And it's successful! I've unironically learned about Bun on YouTube, and now am a happy user. :)

A set of "blessed" known good packages would be wonderful to have in any language, I wonder why it's not a thing.
Belarus' secret program to undermine the EU
> After reporting the vulnerability, the affected system was patched within 24 hours and never exploited maliciously.

How did they verify the never exploited maliciously part?

Did the person who's password they changed ever notice that their password didn't work any more and report the problem?
Show HN: I built a real-time location-sharing app for families and friends
I built Safely360 as a lightweight, privacy-first location-sharing app for families and friends. It lets you share real-time locations, get notifications for arrivals/departures, and stay connected without the clutter or ads of bigger apps. I'm actively improving it based on user feedback—I would love to hear your thoughts!
"Prepopr Splelnig"
I didn't know create-react-app was abandoned. What was wrong with it?
They are not clicking things. The POST is sent automatically when the user visits the page.
GDC 2025 State of the Game Industry: Devs Weigh in on Layoffs, AI, and More
CNN Cuts 6% of Jobs in Strategy Pivot to Focus on Streaming
It isn’t a simple money in, money out system. You’re taking higher value money in one year, and paying out some money that’s worth less later (inflation)… while at the same time, you’re investing the pool of money you collected, and earning returns on that before you pay out claims - claims that you’ve already negotiated down in price. But by the time the healthier customers need to start making large claims, they’ve already both subsidized the claims of other customers, and made the insurance company more money than they’ll draw in claims.
Yes, and I was specifically referring to general-purpose, humanoid robots.
Nah. There has been legitimate progress in Semiconductors (EUV!) and basic research (JWST!), including healthcare (mRNA, CRISPR). This theory that living in a world on the brink of world war somehow makes societies more productive seems like an incorrect narrative.
You can get a free trial right now to Stratechery Plus through Asianometry:

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Walking distance from the Pub to home.

More seriously, time taken to get to work.
Ask yourself this simple question --- is Musk involved in politics for your benefit or his own?

Injecting himself into policy decisions that will directly benefit him and his companies is the most blatant conflict of interest imaginable.

If it's good for Musk, it's probably not so good for you or your country.
Nonplussed here. In what way is normality returning to the social order?

Or are you pegging the 'normal' social order to some particular time in the past?
It’s all those “ufos” with clearly marked FAA mandated navigation lights.
Not for early stage startups.
> Approximate nearest neighbor search for vectors relies on indexes that are most often accessed from RAM. Therefore, storage is the factor limiting the size of the database that can be served from a machine. Lossy vector compression, i.e., embedding quantization, has been applied extensively to reduce the size of indexes. However, for inverted file and graph-based indices, auxiliary data such as vector ids and links (edges) can represent most of the storage cost. We introduce and evaluate lossless compression schemes for these cases. These approaches are based on asymmetric numeral systems or wavelet trees that exploit the fact that the ordering of ids is irrelevant within the data structures. In some settings, we are able to compress the vector ids by a factor 7, with no impact on accuracy or search runtime. On billion-scale datasets, this results in a reduction of 30% of the index size. Furthermore, we show that for some datasets, these methods can also compress the quantized vector codes losslessly, by exploiting sub-optimalities in the original quantization algorithm. The source code for our approach available at this https URL.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/vector_db_id_compression
I'm honestly rather envious. I guess my 'sour grape' is that the lack of funds and opportunity for me to do this is what lead me to go into software and then on into Machine Learning which I do think turned out for the best. Making electronics like this, while still difficult, is far easier than it used to be and I do enjoy it as a hobby in a way that I probably would not have as a career.

It is no doubt an incredible achievement. I don't like the 'anyone can do this' when that clearly isn't true - it comes across as a humble brag and seems to be a strong part of hustle culture. I would much prefer 'anyone with a decent amount of money and a high enough intelligence can do this', or 'this is now far easier to do than it has ever been'.

I do like the idea of MIT being a beacon to the best and brightest and I do think that the lack of a level playing field means that many otherwise talented people miss out on that opportunity. Perhaps what I would really like is for the world to have more MITs but I don't know if that is possible and I worry that attempts to do this would undermine the quality of MIT. So perhaps I should be content that MIT exists as is and that some people get to go there even if I did not - we all benefit from the fruits of their labor. My university was a top tier university renowned for harsh grading and I was still rather disappointed by the quality of my peers and I worry that the quality at universities in general has since declined further.

Cheap and high quality small batch electronics and hardware fabrication is rapidly changing the world in a way that I think few people understand. It used to be that you had to have a decent size company to do this kind of stuff and that company needed capital investment, layers of management etc. So the cost of bringing a widget into the world was really expensive, risky, and took a long time. The only way to make that money back was to do things in bulk and sell a lot of them which meant you had to be sure there was a sufficient target market. These days a single person can design and fabricate a single item for comparatively very little. And if they want to make it accessible to the rest of the world there is no need to build a factory, just upload the plans. If it's a popular design in all likelihood someone in China will produce it in bulk at commodity prices. The speed of commodification has become so fast that it's practically instant. There is a bit of a phenomena going on at the moment with 'high tech overproduction' where it is claimed that China is intentionally over producing high tech goods to undermine Western markets - it's my view that they're ahead of us on the commodification curve. As manufacturing also manufactures the manufacturing tools the commodification process is a self reinforcing cycle.
Difficult question to answer because it's difficult to know what you're asking. What is "it" here? Next.js? OpenTelemetry? This specific implementation?

PHP is a programming language, Rails is a framework. They're quite different propositions. What you're seeing here is equivalent to poking around in the guts of Rails, which assuredly has plenty of complexity hidden inside it. I personally have a negative reaction to this amount of stuff in a project but I feel similarly about Rails.

Next’s big “thing” is one codebase that runs both on the server and client. That introduces complexity where you might not expect it. But a Rails app and a totally disconnected JS front end will also introduce complexity, just a kind you’re more familiar with.
FOSDEM 2025: Jack Dorsey – Resource Not Found
I note this isn't (can't be) a problem in end-to-end encrypted systems.
The linked article is about a fraud conducted by a few bad apples. I can see people colluding with others that are similar to them for criminal activities - gangs, drug smuggling, and probably other frauds too. I am not sure how you inferred caste based nepotism among *all* indians in tech from that article.
It's remarkably unintutive for tasks that should be even trivial (like splitting an editor pane). Getting acclimated in a basic fashion takes far longer than it should given my experience with every other modern IDE.
It could be part of incremental steps, rather than trying to speed run from Oil and Natural Gas to Solar and Wind before it is ready.
> What I hope to achieve with this type of reference is that nobody will discover my laziness. I simply pretend that I have taken the effort to consult Hamblin (1981), without having done so. In short, I have plagiarized the Hamblin reference from Larsson. An attractive aspect of this academic shortcut is that it is usually impossible to discover and to prove the sin committed

This very lengthy article is less about spinach as it is about the integrity and effort behind citations and research. Great lessons that I fear will seem all but archaic to a generation raised to already cite ChatGPT as authoritative
Apple awaits a new CEO.
I've been reflecting a bit on this and remembering what it used to be like when I did hackathons regularly a decade or so ago. This project seems on-par with the type of 48 hour hackathon project I used to do (assuming CLIP had existed), but now I was able to do it in 2 hours instead of 48.

I can't imagine someone non-technical building something like this with prompting. The success of the project was highly dependent on my direction of the model to do what I wanted it to do (even though I gave it leeway in exactly how to do it). It did feel a bit like managing another engineer to do something vs doing it myself.

I don't use agents like this in my day to day work yet (I experimented with OpenHands a couple of months ago but it was frustrating, expensive, and took just as long as doing the task myself). But I'm thinking I probably will be a year from now.

A few times when the model got stuck I copy/pasted some stuff into o1 and pasted its response back into v0 (felt kind of like "escalating" to a more senior engineer) and that helped it get unstuck. Future models will be even more capable than o1. I imagine there will likely need to be a UI for "bringing in the big guns" of a smarter model in the future even if the grunt-work is done by a fast+cheap base model.

There's probably also something to letting the model "speak its native tongue". I don't know next.js but letting the model work with patterns it's been trained on probably helped it be more effective (compared to having OpenHands work in my own codebase using a structure it's unfamiliar with).
Is budgeting just therapy but for money
I wouldnt say I am someone who struggles with doom scrolling but I do share how easy it can be to fall in a trap. I think its just easier for me because my smartphone is really for messaging and calls.. with some niceties of discord. I refuse to have TikTok or use typical social media on my phone.

To clarify, its not that "I refuse" its just I find little incentive to. On top of this, I do not view my smartphone as a replacement for my laptop. Yes, its great to have the internet and apps that can fit in my pocket. For many people, their smartphone replaced 90% of their activities on a desktop/laptop but not for me.

Sure when I go on youtube I watch a Short I find interesting. Before I know it, I am pressing down, down, down... etc.

I also admit that when I am learning or trying to solve a problem I can venture off to youtube or other sites. I can vaguely relate what it must be like for younger kids who grew up with the internet and smart phones. It is easy to get sidetracked.

Despite being in my 40s I hate to be that "back in my day" type of guy but the truth is, before the internet was common, we had little distraction on our PCs. We could only run what our computers had installed, right? Sure, we could still get distracted by our TVs or video games but they still exist today + everything else.

I try to teach my kids (one of which has a phone) that its easy to get caught up them... to be a third arm if you will. My eldest is slowly learning and, in my opinion, is a better example that my spouse.

Lastly, I have enjoyed reading other comments on here and their methods to improve their daily lifestyle choices.

Anyway -- a bit of fun for you...

Not long ago I was in an important meeting with 30 other people. The organiser had to leave to take a phone call. The moment he left EVERYONE took their phones out and all you could hear was 'tap, tap, tapping...'

I was the only one not on their phone. I didn't even bring it into the meeting room with me! I couldn't help but smirk look around the big table with everyone looking down on their phone.

^^ This was in 2011... 14 YEARS AGO!! This would be around the IPhone 3 era. As I looked around the room I started to hate the idea of a "smartphone" and how reliant the average person will be... and I consider myself an introvert! It was just a reflection on what the future holds. Personally, I am glad (even to this day) not to have a reliability towards it.
Just got handed a next app that is currently just beyond toy stage. In what way am I about to get burned? Genuinely curious for opinions
One thing we did with Zeus which remained proprietary was to build a graphplan planner to replace the STRIPS planner. This was better, but unfortunately it only shifted right by one step - very quickly we found that there were planning issues in the agent loop that were intractable.

I think that SAT planners could help further, and I think that LLM's can play a role by suggesting subplans as well. We know that for closed domains like games RL based planners like Alphago can be spectacular, but for the kind of open domain reasoning that Agents have to do I don't think that there is a solution yet.

Would be cockahoop if that's not true !
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It is relatable. I think we could all be more charitable when we interact with an "irritated" comment. It can be hard to express compassion in these scenarios without sounding patronizing. There can be a high difficulty when someone is wrong on the Internet. Sometimes you just have to let it pass.

You might try adding all of your problem domains to your DNS blocklist. This has helped me in the past. Not suggesting that you should leave HN if you are still enjoying it. I suspect we're all the same as you. We want to interact.

If you are music fan or listen to podcasts, you might try silence. Focusing on only one thing has been helpful for my usage. I've noticed that when I listen and code or read, I'm fine. Irritation can begin when the third item distracts me. Removing the music or podcast leaves me with my primary focus and the interloper.
Not quite! I presented no evidence that my generalization was correct, but you didn't say that my generalization was incorrect, you said that "to generalise" a large number of people is unsound, which is refuted by studies of a phenomenon called stereotype accuracy. You can argue that this stereotype of Muslims is wrong if you like (or that there is no such stereotype widely held), but that's a different conversation.

I don't get the feeling that you're arguing in good faith though, so I'll bid adieu now!
EXACTLY same comments were made by many in 2021 when Biden took office... eventually one might be right about that ... :)
Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One
As someone who is entering the age where I should be spending as little time as possible in my life alone (presumably because I’d be married with kids) I’m looking at a very lonely life in the traditional sense. I’m single with no indicator of that changing.

I have a decent amount of friends and see people regularly at my gym since I workout everyday. So, there’s always some minor socialization on any given day. My big woe though is that there’s no easy way for me to meet women. All the things I do normally are just not popular with women and most men are terrible for introducing you to women. After all, any guy who knows a woman who is eligible and attractive will burn the bridge himself unless he’s not single but even then - usually is not encouraged to know such women due to his partner. Even when I try to branch out and do things that are more popular with women, it’s a very challenging environment to get anywhere socially. Yoga and Pilates classes aren’t known for their social atmosphere and if you join in on a cardio dance class - your sexuality and masculinity will inherently be questioned.

Seems most people 25+ rely on dating apps to meet opposite sex now and I’m sure that contributed a lot to the loneliness figures. A lot of us have little reason to go out if we don’t think there’s at least a chance at romance - and the amount of good spaces to meet partners has dwindled.
There currently isn't one that doesn't cause wrecking economies.

But that doesn't matter because if you wreck your economy and crater your GDP the economy becomes more green because you are doing less. /s