skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will have a hard time convincing me that at will employment and hire-fast-fire-fast mentality is not objectively better than whatever you might call the German-style system. (Notice I didn't say it's good, just better)

The German-style system seems to treat a job as something the employee is guaranteed, that it's their inherent right to have, rather than something the employer chooses to give them. It doesn't seem to line up with reality.
The world isn't satisfied with a "decent model". The world is trying to reach AGI.

Further more, reasoning models require more tokens. The faster the GPU, the more thinking it can do in a set amount of time. This means the faster the hardware, the smarter the model output. Again, that reinforces the need for faster hardware.

More thinking = smarter models

Faster hardware = more thinking

Therefore, faster hardware = smarter models
How we made Platform migrations a competitive advantage
As someone who's bought and owned a Founder's Edition card (2080 TI) that's not true. They exist there's just very few of them and supply is limited. I don't think NVidia have much incentive to increase supply as most people buy the 3rd party ones instead anyway.

It's like saying the PS5 doesn't exist because you couldn't get hold of one when they first came out.
The Most Important Conversation to Have Before You Die
Show HN: I made an AI app to give Startup ideas using HackerNews posts/comments
Hey HN, I’m Steve, a 20-year-old developer.

Few days ago i was asking GPT to recommend me some cool SaaS ideas, It did give me some ideas but it lacked personalization and i had no way to validate it easily, so i made an webapp which recommends SaaS ideas using your resume and validates it by searching relevant content on hacker news articles and comments.

I would love to know what you guys think.
I understand your claim; so we have lived forever with a baseline stroke risk (maybe zero) that is attributable to these microparticles. The addition of plastics, because they may block, will not certainly lower our baseline risk, and may (as this evidence suggests) increase it.
https://archive.ph/OYWkc
It should show you premium domains as long as they're for sale, yes. Probably one of the more useful features.
Usually when you’re in a shitty situation, all the people who know who you are are also in bad situations and probably can’t hire or protect you. That’s how business works—things go bad at the same time. All correlations go to one in a crash.
That was my suspicion as well. This is outside my area of expertise, but from what I can tell the dosing isn't (multiple) orders of magnitude larger.

From the article, they mention about 4 times higher dosing than detected in humans when the MPs enter through medical supplies (including through surgery).

- "about 12 μg of MPs [microplastics] per milliliter of blood have been detected in human blood. [prev studies mentioned above]" (I haven't read those references, though, just going off a quick skim)
- "We would like to bring mouse blood MPs to this level by injection."
- "the diluted final concentration after entering the bloodstream should be blood of about 50 μg/mL" [sic]

A quick search for levels detected in humans led me to this paper [1] that gives 1.84 - 4.65 μg/mL,
though with "a mean particle length of 127.99 ± 293.26 µm (7-3000 µm), and a mean particle width of 57.88 ± 88.89 µm (5-800 µm)." compared to uniform 5-μm-diameter microsphere used in the submitted article.

So the mouse dosing is (compared to humans):

- 4 times higher than contamination through medical interventions (if i understand correctly)
- 15 times higher than normal contamination (only based on the one article)

So higher, for sure, but still rather close in cases with a lot of contamination. Not sure how the particle size factors into it

[1] Microplastics in human blood: Polymer types, concentrations and characterisation using μFTIR https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108751

EDIT: formatting and rephrasing
40 years ago an autobody shop near me (where I lived at the time) went bankrupt. The employees came to work in the morning and the door had a new lock. It was 6 months before they could get their personal tools back. Mechanics provide their own tools, so this meant they couldn't really get a new job (or could but only after investing thousands in tools that they already owned but couldn't access).
It certainly is an opportunity for a political party to grab the ball and run with it, but they will not.
It means auto-vectorization. Write scalar code that can be automatically vectorized by the compiler by using SIMD instructions
I said the European power balance, not the global one. You misunderstood again.

I also wouldn't say that Germans feel betrayed. Quite the opposite, they instead think it's beneficial to betray their allies. Playing both sides, much like Hungary and Turkey.
I agree, a frozen moment in time is special. But it also doesn’t quite capture subtleties that require the time dimension… e.g.; a quirky speech pattern that was a constant for a year or two but then just disappeared.
Yes I'm quite happy they gave so many details in the paper, it's the first sota paper with actual science in it!

This thread is about americans installing the DeepSeek app though, which is quite worrisome.
The issue is it feels like we came to a stop but Hyperscalers are simply waiting for Blackwell. That's all.

Why buy 100k Hoppers if 20k Blackwell offer the same compute so then it's better to buy 100k Blackwells right?

Backwell will increase cluster scaling easily by 10x performance and if you buy 10x of them then your compute on a cluster will be 100x than before. If it takes you to wait 6-12 months for that then so be it. You will easily make up the time in the end with the speed up.
... Well, not their entire customer base - according to Slant 3d the scuttlebutt is that Bambu sold over a million printers last year...
> From what I've heard Google made their version pretty bad

I have one on my keys. The one time I tried to use it, despite refreshing multiple times, it gave me a bubble with a quarter mile radius. It turned out to be in my bag right next to me.
Terraform's not an orchestrator, it's for something totally different.
Which allies? The ones the current US president is threatening in all sorts of manner?

I actually hope he doubles down. I would love for EU to rely less on the US. It would also reduce the reach of the silly embargoes that benefit no one but the US.
I don't understand the point of doing this. The cable just gets fixed and before thet the internet goes the other way for a while. They're just gonna piss everybody off. Can you think of any logical reason, or is it just Russia's indomitable desire to do harm?
I'm French too, and when I was young, I learnt the Basic language before learning English (by reading Basic programs already available on our computer).

So I was able to write FOR … THEN … ELSE blocks without even knowing what the keywords meant (I just know what they did to the program). One day, I explained to my father what I was writing, and I read out loud FOR … "TEN" … "ELCE" (with a strong French accent), and he corrected me by pronouncing the words correctly ("FOR … THEN … ELSE"). I was shocked: "how do you know?" (he knew nothing about Basic or even programming).

I learnt that day that "for", "then" and "else" were not just keywords in the Basic language, but they were actually real words in English.
TL;DR:
Is it still feasible to generate a small passive income from AdSense using smaller, custom-built web applications?

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Hello everyone!

I want to learn and deepen my skills in front-end web development and Figma design out of curiosity. I already have three years of experience in back-end development (Django, Docker, ...) and DevOps (Azure, DigitalOcean, smaller CI/CD pipelines) which is also my full-time job. Now I’d like to broaden my skill set and aim for a full-stack role by learning Figma, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS — and potentially React, Tailwind, ... down the line. I already have decent skills in HTML and CSS - but by far not as good as Python.

To get hands-on practice, I plan to create a series of really small side projects. The idea is to start with simple websites or web apps, then gradually tackle more complex web applications over the next 2–3 years as my front-end skills mature. In addition to learning, I’d love to see if these projects could bring in a small side income—somewhere around $10–$500 a month—by placing Google AdSense ads across all the sites I build.

Here’s my general "strategy":

- Use Semrush or Ahrefs to identify interesting, low-competition niches.
- Build smaller, straightforward static websites / web applications around those niches (that also sound fun)
- Deploy them (GitHub Pages, Vercel, ...) and rent a domain (porkbun, ...)
- Monetize them with Google AdSense (maybe focusing on SEO when creating the websites)

Main Goal: Expand into full-stack development.

Secondary Goal: Earn a modest, passive income from multiple small websites.

I've heard that Adsense is not paying too well and there are better competitors, but it is still an easy start point.

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I'm happy about all kinds of input, thoughts or experiences in this field. (Feel free to insult, if the idea is terrible :D).

Cheers!
do you want to increase your risk of having a stroke (which is what the study suggests is happening with microplastics), or keep that risk level where it is?

put another way: would you go out and smoke cigarettes and expect no additional harm, because you are already exposed to environmental pollutants?
Ask HN: How to Make a Censor Resistant Website?
How can I make a website censor resistant?

I am the founder of OpenDomain - a non-profit project I have run for 20 years that has contributed domains worth millions to charities and non profits to support open source. I have given domains to Google, OsCon, Fosdem, Jabber, Brenden Eich, Drupal, and the W3c.

One of the domains I have is http://fascist.com/ - I want someone to use it to support anti-fascist movement.

The problem is that this site may criticize some of the most powerful people in the world.

How do I set it up to be censor resistant?
How do I vet people to help?

How do I protect users to allow open dialogue?
BCG, sadly, is not really in that category.
I made a virtual office for devs
I made this virtual office using phaser/ reactjs and nodejs/ postgres.
It's a place where devs can represent their side projects - Even when they're offline (by configuring an offline agent).

I even made a companion VS Code/ Cursor plugin which allows you to auto-update your player's status with your coding activity (open filename, current line number, etc.): https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Pegleg.h...

There's a bunch of other features, but I consider it a prototype of many things atm. I'd eventually like to expend the world and customisations if the idea takes off.

Check it out and let me know any thoughts/ suggestions!
Earlier:

Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42833491
I really wonder how much the self-supervised data flywheel will be enough to reproduce this model or not.

There are also so many different tweaks that could be made to try to get these models to perform better, kudos to the team reproducing it all in the open
I wonder why he uses custom units. Who the hell speaks in G$.
Don't really agree. The benefits you mentioned are already there for 50-70 percentile employees. Like doing a bit more than minimum, occasionally helping others, not slacking too much so others had to pick up your work etc. No benefits to bust your ass to be the top 5%.

And when more and more people are like this, the average quality goes down, so it is even easier to be average.

Pride in my work? Sometimes I have pride in my work. Doesn't mean I should open myself to be exploited.
Feedback requested: while I see that there is a bit of controversy about the author's using uv, I am wondering how much of a barrier that really is.

Suppose someone were to write a Python terminal app such that the docs required uv OR pipx. And it installed all its own dependencies, etc. using those mechanisms.

Would that be an acceptable way to write a useful utility these days? Or, if that person wanted to write a utility, would they get far more uptake if it were to be provided as an executable written in Rust?
It’s worthwhile to “go above and beyond” for individuals who will help you, who may exist in a company… but never for the company itself. A company is no less and no more than a pile of someone else’s money that will do literally anything, including destroy your life, to become a bigger pile.

You should do a good job for individuals who will repay you later on. Companies themselves these days can sod off—they stand for nothing.
Love this distillation!
Also, I am a huge fan of Marc lou, hence i tried to build this in <7 hours, building this app was really simple, currently i just use the hacker news api and search for relevant keywords generated by gemini and prompt inject the all the relevant articles.

If this is something actually people need, I can add a RAG based approach to validate stuff and would love to know what else we can do to improve validation.
Nominative determinism. There's also the pithy Latin phrase nomen omen.
It’s also cheaper than dealing with the exponentially increasing costs of climate adaptation.
I think it’s a bit problematic to say ARM is 30-ish years old. The company is 34 years old but 64 bit Arm (AArch64) which is really very different to its predecessors was announced in 2011 so arguably only 14 years old.
And Li-ion batteries are good enough:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
>We are local min/max machines and need government to direct us to the global min/max but it doesn’t do that.

What is an example of that, because I governments do a reasonable of moving towards a global min/max. Where we haven't gone towards a global max/min is because it's actually hard. In many cases, the global min/max either isn't well defined, or if it is, you have to contend with existing infrastructure and huge costs to get there. For example, upgrading the electric grid to support massive amount of solar and wind power, is a multi-decade/multi-trillion dollar initiative (and this assumes solar and wind is even a 'global max/min' for carbon reduction .. and it isn't clear it is) ...
I found a harddisk with a ton of ripped MiniDV footage of the kids when they were young. What I value most isn't the kids. Sure, they're adorable and I have a ton of snapshots from them...but it's things like 'oh, we had that TV then, oh, that room still had carpet, man, the trees were really short, oh that really annoying noise the parrot makes? He's been doing it for more than 20 years.'

It's not the subjects, it's the context that is cherished.
There are plenty of mid-size tech companies that are both not-public and not-lifestyle.

My employer is one of them. Several thousand employees, global reach, and owned by PE (Blackstone and Vista).
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Can you invite me too? :^)

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It's the part about attempting to train someone as a backup that I remember reading on their website. I can no longer find that blurb..
Got the introduction written at https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/compile/fusio....
5% off your next lunch and 5% off your next car are very much not the same thing.
Yeah, I agree. I would consider it rude to present the output straight from the tool. But if you use it as an advanced template that gives you structure it can be useful to overcome the blank page syndrome.
I absolutely don't understand the point of doing this but this much "accident's" in such a short time doing harm for enemies of russia are very suspicious.
That’s a rational stance. However, the Buffet Indicator is flashing red, we’re in a dotcom-era sized bubble, and it only takes a little bit of ill-founded worry to kick off a serious panic.
Wouldn't that result in a different checksum for package-lock.json?
Woo, very happy to see more posts by McHale these days!
You're correct, your RO system should reduce the amount of microplastics significantly though, to a point that makes your water much safer than most common options.
I couldn't find any licensing information in your repo <https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news>; is it just source available?

In contrast to https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/22.12... which is MIT
Thanks Amir6. Very interesting.
What resources do you have in mind? can you give me some examples?
The last 2 years fundamentally changed how a lot of people perceive work. I've witnessed layoffs in the past, but they didn't seem to hit as many people as hard as they did this time.

That said - having seen how layoffs are organized from the inside (multiple times), I can _guarantee_ that the list of suggestions on this post ("Suggestions for Those Who Haven’t Been Laid Off (Yet)" - particularly the first 2 points) are the best way to get included on the layoff sheet, in almost any organization. They might be good ideas for mental health reasons, but definitely an easy "name on the list" if you're perceived as "just doing the minimum" (I know that doesn't sound fair, but that's how boards think).
This is going to sound like basic advice and probably what you already know but at the end I think it's just what needs to be done.

More time spent practicing and interviewing is going to be the most effective thing you can possibly do.

1. Do leetcode every day.

Work on one new concept/algorithm every day. Go deep. Look at others solns. Go back every day and resolve new problems of previously learned algorithms.

It will be slow at first but by the more time you spend here the better and faster you will become.

After you have a semi solid base, put on pressure, time yourself and do contests.

2. Do mock interviews. Friends, family, online. I used interviewing.io. for me it was worth it.

As many as possible. One a day if possible.

3. Do real interview as much as you can. Don't say no even if you aren't prepped.

Your first 5 interviews are failures. After that you will see that you will be dramatically more confident, relaxed and competent.

Adhd specific. For me meds (Vyvanse) helped a lot. Especially for focus during the interviews. Experiment with timing and dosage.

My preference was to take a slightly higher dose about 1hr before interview so that I felt "in". But everyone's different.

Finally, gotta remember that failure is part of the process. Nothing different about interviews then studying for a test or going to gym.
Only linux. I have run several different X servers on windows (3.1), OS/2, and such. But xorg is free and so that is what you use on linux.
Helm is an ultra low budget operator for anything. Maybe the best thing in the ecosystem, despite what everyone says.
Imagine being in the middle of nowhere, in winter, on Saturday night, on some farm, knee deep in a cow piss, servicing some 3rd party feed dispenser, only to discover that you have possible solution but it's in some obscure format instead of .tar.gz. Nearest internet 60 miles away. This is what I always imagine happening when some new obscure format come into play, imagine the poor fella, alone, cold, screaming. So incredibly close to his goal, but ultimately stopped by some artificial unnecessary made-up bullshit.
> The Broken Trust of Modern Work

> Layoffs were uncommon when I started working, and being a developer felt like an incredibly safe job. In most professions, the unspoken rule was simple: if you performed well and the company was financially stable, your job was secure.

> But today, companies are announcing layoffs alongside record-breaking financial results.

From the author's website:

> I've been working as a Software Developer since 2016

I've been in the tech industry almost 30 years. I saw the dot com boom and the collapse. Hiring like crazy in the late 1990's with companies have having signs "WE ARE HIRING!" outside their parking lot where you could just stop on your lunch break and have a new job by the end of the day.

I've worked at companies posting big profits but still had layoffs to underperforming groups. When your profit margin is 10% but another group is 40% they will sell off or shut down the lower margin groups. Sometimes there are offers for internal transfers but it depends on the skill set.

After the dot com collapse I've never felt any trust or loyalty to my company. I have felt a huge amount of trust and loyalty to my coworkers. I still work hard. It can still be fun. But if someone needs a job it is great to have a wide network of former coworkers.

I've worked at 8 companies and only at the first 3 did I just blindly apply. The other 5 were former coworkers who recruited me to join. Then I do the same for them.

I've worked with some people for 15 years at 4 different companies sometimes with gaps of 3-4 years in between but we meet for lunch once or twice a month and keep in touch.
I've been laid off many times, for many reasons (mostly startup financial issues), but what I've taken away from it a mantra that's a bit different.

I need mutual respect. I want to believe in whatever the company is doing and enjoy my work there. At the same time, I want the company to respect my personal time and further my career growth. This enables me to give my best effort. I have no delusions about the workforce - I am a cog in the machine as we all are, but I will at least be a well greased cog.

When it's all said and done, I would like to leave a company feeling good about my time spent there, and if I am happy with how I am treated and the work I do from the start to the end, then however it ends, I feel good about it.
> Well, it's too early to say if it has happened in this case

Ah ok, so you’re just guessing. You wrote it as if it had already happened.

And I think you’re confusing the stock market with the broader economy. The economy as a whole is unaffected by AI at this point.

And the trade war with China involved hundreds of industries beyond AI. Most of it is manufacturing. I’m not sure how failure of AI sanctions (questionable conclusion) somehow means the trade issues around machine parts needs to be abandoned.

I agree China has motive but I’ve heard so many claims that the Chinese government doesn’t control research or businesses like TikTok.
It doesn't. This article doesn't measure that, and full screen works differently. This article also only measures gnome.
Years back I came to the conclusion that conda using bzip2 for compression was a big mistake.

Back then if you wanted to use a particular neural network it was meant for a certain version of Tensorflow which expected you to have a certain version of the CUDA libs.

If you had to work with multiple models the "normal" way to do things was use the developer unfriendly [1][2] installers from NVIDIA to install a single version of the libs at a time.

Turned out you could have many versions of CUDA installed as long as you kept them in different directories and set the library path accordingly, it made sense to pack them up for conda and install them together with everything else.

But oh boy was it slow to unpack those bzip2 packages! Since conda had good caching, if you build environments often at all you could be paying more in decompress time than you pay in compression time.

If you were building a new system today you'd probably use zstd since it beats gzip on both speed and compression.

[1] click... click... click...

[2] like they're really going to do something useful with my email address
I thought my point was obvious — you’re declaring someone guilty of a crime when you have no knowledge of the case or more generally have no idea what you’re talking about.
The MMR vaccine doesn’t cause that type of scar. I’ve found nothing saying air vaccination guns do either.

Smallpox and TB vaccines both do though.

Perhaps you got a combo?