skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess what I'm saying is that a 3 year old can sometimes pick out their clothes (sometimes they will hate the consequences). They can't really commit to long term decisions about what hairstyle they will want to live with for months, or manage the upkeep of the style they pick.
BeyondCorp @ Home (2018)
I’ve found that I like the thrill of designing a project as I get older. But not building. By design I don’t mean UI - which I suck at.

I have experience up and down the stack from requirements analysis and pre-sales, enough project management to get by, back end development, database, cloud architecture and “DevOps” [sic] and creating deployment pipelines. I’m not bragging, I’m just old (50).

I would have to hire someone to do any front end work except ironically hosted call centers.

I can do all that myself for a large project and for smaller projects I could simplify the “DevOps” portion. But knowing the work involved, I would rather lead a team at this point in my life and work with the “business”, project managers and people who want to be heads down.

Honestly though, the one thing I wouldn’t be good at anyway is marketing and sales and that’s the most important part of getting a project off the ground.
Another tool that can be used by an unprivileged user for analysing network traffic is rootless Podman with Pasta.

Just add the podman run option

--network=pasta:--pcap,myfile.pcap

Pasta then records the network traffic into a PCAP file that could later be analysed.

I wrote a simple example where I used tshark to analyse the recorded PCAP file https://github.com/eriksjolund/podman-networking-docs?tab=re...
This normal in your society? https://electronicintifada.net/content/switzerland-deports-e...

Interesting thought policing you have in there.
or goat compressors: https://x.com/GZilgalvis/status/1883107575010619649
This is like suggesting that running applications in a Windows VM and running them under WINE isn't a big difference.

(One might say "but it's the same OS!" - but it's only really a similar kernel, and even that is heavily customized and not at all the same as your laptop runs. The graphical stack is also nothing like neither X nor Wayland.)

Also, rant: it's not KVM, but QEMU. KVM is a small API to deal with virtualization instructions, but while that makes VMs much faster than without (similar to how floating point is much faster with hardware support), it does very little on its own. The virtualization instructions are basically a way to let QEMU run code as is but intercept everything important - syscalls, faults, you name it - whereas without, it would have to instrument or outright interpret the executed program.

It's QEMU that micro-manages setup, execution and importantly is responsible for emulating all the VM devices - KVM just exposes memory mapped into the virtual CPU's memory space.
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Remote: Yes, or hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right job

Technologies: Golang, Python, Github Actions, K8s, Kafka, Bash, YAML, Javascript, ReactJS, Google Cloud Platform, Java, SQL, Prometheus, Grafana

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P_56Npuche25WtqszXELkjIo...

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emdash | Bay Area | Hybrid | Full-time | Senior Frontend & Infra Engineer | https://emdash.io

We’re looking for engineers to join our small but mighty team at emdash to build the next generation collaboration stack, starting with chat & video.

This is a very early-stage opportunity, meaning you’ll have a foundational role in shaping our product, technology, and company culture. We already have daily active customers (including ourselves) but we are just starting to scratch the surface of what emdash can be.

Founders have a long history working together and solid engineering & management experience from FB, Square, Slack, and their previous startup Rimeto (acquired by Slack).

Check out what we’ve built so far at http://emdash.io and help us figure out the future.

Job description: https://wellfound.com/company/emdash-io
Founders: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pzigoris/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/neville-bowers/
At that point why not just... I dunno, do the research yourself?
"Nobody cares about the golden path. Edge cases are our entire job."

This is an obvious exaggeration; if you ignore the golden path, the code doesn't solve the problem it's meant to solve. But yes; writing reliable code is all about the edge cases. Eliminate them if you can; code for them if you can't.
Doubling System Read Throughput with Only 26 Lines of Code (2020)
without paywall: https://archive.ph/EARyP#selection-1113.0-1113.69
Materialize | Staff Software Engineer (Sources/Sinks) | NYC or Remote (US/Canada/EMEA) | https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/materialize/jobs/5357900004

Materialize is a cloud operational data store (ODS) enabling fast, incremental, and consistent transformations of live data using SQL.

We’re hiring Staff Software Engineers to build high-performance, distributed systems in Rust, focusing on efficient data ingestion and delivery. You’ll work on data integration pipelines, leveraging cutting-edge concepts like differential and timely dataflow to ensure correctness and efficiency.

Note: the linked position is focused on the data integration aspect of Materialize but we're also looking for wider database roles so feel free to apply if the general area of Materialize seems interesting to you!

What we’re looking for:

- 5+ years of systems-level engineering (Rust, Go, C/C++, or similar; Rust experience a plus).

- Strong CS fundamentals (B.S./M.S. equivalent).

- Bonus: distributed systems, SQL databases, CDC, or stream processing experience.

Compensation: $200K–$225K + equity.

Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed ($100M+ raised), we’re remote-friendly and committed to building a diverse, world-class team.
I was literally thinking about this the other day. There are a ton of games using kernel modules for anti-cheat and... just load and interpret data payloads. Certainly some of those payloads could manipulate the funny machines inside of a game executable if they're not careful about their parsing and validation.

Nice PoC!

Update: yes, most game client processes don't run in the kernel. My b. I was just thinking that updates and content payloads might be an interesting vector for langsec.
You don't need high speed face tracking to make video edits, those are not going to be done in real time.
You've Built a Bad Implementation of Other Software, Now What?
Privacy and security are good reasons, but I think the more common thought is "this is another tech thing that will break in some way I don't understand and cannot get fixed, plus none of it will work with other IoT brands". People encounter enough tech complexity online that they have a gut-level negative reaction to having more of it in the physical world.
Bluesky: Advanced Bridge for Mastodon and Telegram
I spent a decade and change doing adult instruction in CAD. Early on, many were still transitioning off 2d hand drawings. Boy, was that an art! I got to do a few the very old school way and have serious respect for the people who can produce a complex assembly drawing that way. Same for many shapes that may feature compound curves, for example.

But I digress!

Asking them what they wanted or would teach me was very illuminating and frankly, fun all around! I was brought a variety of subjects and not a single one was dull!

Seems I had experiences similar to yours.

One of my questions was influenced by someone who I respected highly asking, "what books are on your shelf at home?"

This one almost always brought out something about the candidate I would have had no clue about otherwise. As time advanced, it became more about titles because fewer people maintain a physical book shelf!
anyone know why the guy couldn't use his own identity?

when i first saw this i thought maybe it was immigration etc but seemed like both are americans of european descent the US is usually amenable
With articles like these, I'm glad for my dumbphone. At least that sends data only to my mobile operator, hopefully.
When he first started using someone else's identity, the crimes might not have been "long in the past" yet, but once you start doing something like that and have established a life under the assumed identity, it's not easy to go back.

The real problem here is the attempt to maintain permanent one-to-one mappings between ID numbers and humans. The legitimate purpose of a government ID is so you can e.g. go to the bank, open an account and then later establish to the bank that you're the same person who opened the account. If you want to get a new ID number and start over, you shouldn't have to steal someone else's in order to do that, you should just be able to go to the DMV or the social security administration and get a new ID under a new name that isn't already somebody else's.

The hypothesis that this would help criminals is pretty thin. They're already going to use an assumed name, which is why law enforcement uses photos/fingerprints/DNA to identify suspects rather than a government ID that people aren't actually required to carry regardless.
Metamaterial-based injection molding for cost-effective production of whole cuts
Pasteur Labs (https://pasteurlabs.ai) | Full-time | REMOTE (worldwide) | DevOps / MLOps / full-stack / platform / MLEng

At Pasteur Labs, we develop computing technologies that enable scientific and industrial challenges to be approached in new ways: that is, a first of its kind AI-native, developer-first platform for modeling & simulation (M&S). Our product aim is to enable in-silico playgrounds for human-machine teams experimenting and building in industrial R&D, energy security, & advanced manufacturing arenas. As a public-benefit for-profit startup, our mission is Nobel-Turing [1] technologies to advance science and society for all humankind. With venture funding and Fortune500 customers (+dozens more on the waitlist), we’re looking for ambitious, intellectually curious software engineers that can consistently contribute in non-trivial, impressive ways as we ship and scale our flagship product platform — some call it “live intelligent digital twins” and others say “cyberphysical testbeds for AGI”, while most view Pasteur Labs product catalogue as “Databricks for industrial R&D”.

--> https://pasteurlabs.ai/careers/ <-- While we don’t list requirements for degrees or years-experience, everyone needs to demonstrate high-caliber engineering and problem-solving; we’re dedicated to scientific rigor and robust engineering for complex and dynamic environments, so prove to us that you not only fit in but that you can make us better. In particular, we are seeking experienced DevOps / MLOps teammates that can build from day 1 with Go, Python, containerization, and our multiple cloud setups (Azure, Google (GCP), Oracle Cloud (OCI)), and on-prem infrastructure for mixed GPU & CPU workloads — if you've done this before with CAE simulation systems and scientific datasets, reach out and say so!

Our team is largely made of industry-hardened research-software engineering experts [2], whom thrive in interdisciplinary and fast-paced teams—from NASA to Nvidia, Deepmind to Oracle, CERN to Cerebras, SpaceX to Autodesk, the Navy, Air Force, and on. With HQ in Brooklyn NY [3], and satellite offices opening in Copenhagen + London + Vancouver in 2025, we are an internationally distributed team running remote full-time — from San Francisco to Sao Paulo to Stockholm and everywhere in-between. The full team gathers multiple times per year for 1-week Pasteur Labs “onsites”—recently in Miami, Amsterdam, Cambridge, and more.

If what we’re doing speaks to you, please get in touch! Send your CV/resume and other supporting info/demos/etc to us at careers@simulation.science

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.03235.pdf

[2] https://us-rse.org/about/what-is-an-rse/

[3] http://newlab.com
Jupiter Health | Program conversational AI | Unique data assets | Unstructured queries to a structured data answer
Interested in working with a unique dataset in healthcare (HC)?
We are an NY- and SF-based start-up making it easier to find direct pay healthcare, outside of the traditional insurance system. We are building the largest dataset of direct pay rates in the US.
To help consumers find the right service, we need a conversational AI program that can get users from the unstructured ways that people begin to articulate their health needs (symptoms, needs, type of doctor, etc.), to the specific service from our dataset that they need by asking follow-ups and making the correct determination.
E.g., from “I think I might have the flu” to a virtual urgent care visit, or from “I need an MRI” to an MRI of the chest, one view, with contrast.
We are looking for a highly talented individual interested in this problem who can take it on for us. Please shoot us an email if that may be you! hello@jupiterplans.com
Atma Sciences Inc | https://atma.inc | NYC Hybrid (2-3 days in office), open to remote for the right candidate | Founding AI Engineer | $120k-250k + significant equity | US/GB only

Atma is a seed-stage startup building Gizmo, a platform that lets anyone build and share interactive "gizmos" - custom software experiences that can be remixed and featured on our platform. We're backed by top-tier investors and are building our founding team.

We're seeking an AI Engineering Lead to:

- Architect and optimize our LLM-driven systems

- Design/implement the intelligence layer turning user intentions into functional gizmos

- Build out our logging and analytics suite

- Work on our iOS app, if that's of interest to you

Requirements:
- Some experience building ML/AI systems at scale

- Some expertise with LLMs and AI coding tools like Cursor, Windsurf, etc.

- Nice to have: experience with our stack: TypeScript, Swift, Python

Benefits:
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity

- Best-in-class health insurance and benefits (full coverage of you + dependents)

- Unlimited PTO

- An office in NYC, if you're here, or a budget to get what you need if not

Apply: https://forms.gle/kzPyM9WxWhR9Woec9
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Technologies: Erlang, Elixir, Haskell, F#, Nix, NixOS, Linux, Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Bash, PostgreSQL, Docker, DevOps, Terraform
Website: https://schonfinkel.github.io
Résumé/CV: https://schonfinkel.github.io/static/cv.pdf

I have 6+ years of experience in back-end engineering and devops/infrastructure, 4 of those I've been dealing with functional programming in production environments (mostly with F# and Nix), but also work on the BEAM (Elixir/Erlang) and Haskell. Feel free to contact me if you need someone to tackle bizarre projects.
Location: Providence, RI
Remote: Preferably
Willing to relocate: Would consider
Technologies: Python, Neural Nets (prefer pytorch), JS / CSS / HTML
Résumé/CV: https://flux2flow.com/larson_cv.pdf
Email: albert@flux2flow.com
Tesla is already best value for money EV, people demanding lower is hard. But Tesla showed it’s possible to cut costs even more. A lot of people do indeed want smaller car than M3.
Longshot Systems | Machine Learning Researcher | London | Full time | 1x per week in person

We're hiring for Machine Learning Researchers at Longshot. If you really enjoy the modelling side of machine learning and like iterating rapidly on your ideas to try and beat the best existing models (think a Kaggle competition, but against the market) you’d be a great fit for this role. Open to the full range of Junior to Senior candidates at the moment, please forward to anyone you think would be a good fit.

https://www.longshotsystems.co.uk
Just passing by to say that I love to see this. Can't hire you though but hopefully someone here will!!
> Somehow, though, I suspect that insinuating I need extra rest after giving my emotional labor to "plan a night out with the guys" wouldn't go over so well with my wife.

In my culture, events with the guys seems much easier to plan.

The guys will have a great time even if I only feed them takeaway pizza and beer. Barbecue hasn't been assembled? They'll assemble it, light it, do the cooking, and do most of the clean-up too. If we go out for food, we can walk into pretty much any restaurant, we all have money and we'll all eat anything. Staying the night? The guys will show up with camp beds and sleeping bags if they need to. For the first event I had a backup barbecue prepared, in case the halal guy and the vegetarian guy wanted to keep their stuff separate - turns out no worries, just do our stuff first.

And everyone has a great time! This counts as absolutely crushing it, in terms of planning events with the guys, in my society.

On the other hand, big family events? There'll be a giant spread of home cooked food. Vegetarian options, vegan options, gluten-free options. Special food for the fussy nephew who'll only eat baked beans. Some people will show up with four different cakes. Some people will have baked practice cakes in advance to test out the new recipe before the big day.
This is just the system getting rid of (in their eyes) an undesirable. The truth doesn't really matter in these cases unless you have tens of thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer to plead your case.
Fulcrum | Senior Full Stack Engineer | MSP | $150k - 180k+ + benefits and equity | Full-time, REMOTE (US) | https://fulcrumpro.com Our mission is clear and staggeringly important: we're building the manufacturing operating system of the future from the ground up, one that’s engineered to create network effects as we grow. A beautiful, sophisticated quantum leap forward for the most important core industry in the world.
The market tells us we’re on the right track and we're growing. Currently seventeen developers. (Many from HN!). Series A-2: https://fulcrumpro.com/ignite

We’re serious about doing great work and we empower people to make it happen. Our favorite tools include C#, Angular, Vue, and serverless TypeScript. We’re primarily interested in finding intensely smart people with talent at their fingertips, regardless of what tech stack you come from. We value autonomy over routine, and empathy over ego. We want to make products that are so elegant that our users feel constantly amazed. If you have at least 5 years of professional experience building all parts of modern webapps, and are interested in helping us develop the next generation of software in a massive market, we’d love to hear from you. The future is ours to build.
Answers to your FAQs: Immediate 401(k), with 5% match after 90 days through Vanguard, immediate vesting. health, dental, and vision benefits. Unlimited vacation (15 day mandatory minimums). Remote and flexible work. Typical process: culture screen - tech screen - tech interview - offer. To get in touch: careers@fulcrumpro.com or apply at https://fulcrumpro.com/team-careers

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Manifesto
Manufacturing is important. It’s the fundamental industry on which everything else is built. We take it for granted. In 1989, 35% of the entire software industry was manufacturing systems. Back then, services, hand holding, customization, and consulting were necessary to get the systems to where they are today. What was the first massive burst in productivity from technology has stagnated into incremental diminishing returns and exponentially increasing complexity. We can only continue to add complexity for so much longer until the whole system collapses.
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
Manufacturing is important. We must deliver a touch of technological genius to reintroduce simplicity, efficiency, and integration.
I have a Windows partition that I haven't booted into for ages. Originally I would first try to run a game on Linux, and fallback to Windows if it has problems. Some live service AAA games are still impossible to run on Linux due to anticheat, but it's otherwise a pretty good time for Linux gaming in the era of the Steam Deck.
Hey HN! We're the team behind steel.dev, and today we're excited to share Surf (https://surf.new) - an open-source playground where you can test and experiment with different web agents. Think of it as a sandbox where you can see how different AI agents/models interact with the web in real-time.
With OpenAI's Operator launch last week, web agents are having a moment. But with it being closed source, not having an API, not SOTA, and costing $200 a month, we felt like there was a gap in clearly understanding where the space is at today for both developers evaluating for prod and end-users. The open-source community is actually leading the way in performance (Shoutout Browser-use, currently SOTA on WebVoyager), but testing different approaches requires a bunch of work, setup, and debugging just to get started.

We built Surf to solve this. It's a hosted playground where you can chat with different web agents/models and test automation tasks - basically a "try before you deploy" sandbox for web agents. The most interesting challenge wasn't the agents themselves - it was designing Surf to be generalizable enough for contributors to plug in new agents and models easily.

Right now, you can switch between Browser-use’s agent and our experimental Claude Computer-use-based agent. But the real goal is to make it trivial for anyone building web agents to add their own. The whole thing is open source (https://github.com/steel-dev/surf.new) and built on our Steel's Sessions API. We built it with Next.js, Vercel AI SDK, & LangChain to keep everything clean, familiar, and hackable.

Heads up - it's new, and slow, and agents can fail in all sorts of ways. But that is kind of the point - we want to make it easier for everyone to understand the current state of web agents, whether you’re evaluating them for production use, just curious about how they work or want to automate some tasks for yourself. We also don’t yet support operator features like taking control and multiple tabs yet either.

Try it out at surf.new (no signup needed!), and let us know what breaks. We're actively maintaining it and would love your feedback on what you'd like to see next.
Improving Your Merge Requests Using AI and Mermaid Diagrams
This reminds me of Joel Spolsky's test and true article on rewrite: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
> To me, if you are a guy on a dating app and your pictures are not taken by a professional photographer then you are losing your time, and if you are paying you are also throwing your money.

Don't do this.

You need good pictures that convey attractiveness (looks, as well as personality). Using professional photos conveys neediness & a level of desperation hidden under a shell of an ego the shot tries to portray. So you end up relying on looks with a handicap. A good looking person doesnt need professional shots to show that.

Sure, if you currently have mirror selfies, professional shots are better. Otherwise - if you are not a model who has magazine-published shots you're including in your profile, then don't go use or pay for professional shots. Figure out how to take canned shots on your own or pay a photographer for canned real shots (nothing highly edited).