skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not. Getting all of this done requires overwhelming amounts of surprise. Trump signing a flood of executive orders is a part of this: it takes time to figure out what's going on with each one, and how to combat it. And in that time, the damage can already be done.

Musk and his coup team aren't really accountable to anyone but Trump, and have no direct legal authority. The way that they get things done is by threatening and steamrolling people, and gaining control of important functions (like the ability to put people on leave or fire them). All of this requires some amount of secrecy and chaos in order to pull off. If they were posting detailed plans on their website, it would make those plans harder to execute.
Sure, but as stated, if you don't trust the CPU at all, rdrand becomes the least of your concerns.
The in-depth discussions part (i.e. things like seminars) is probably difficult without registering for a class in some manner—which, in turn, is difficult at a traditional university without enrolling, outside of some continuing ed program. My undergrad university library is also accessible (at least if you look like you belong) post-COVID in the sense that you don't have to card in but even I (as an alum and moderately large donor) would almost certainly have to pay an annual access fee to check something out. It also has some generally accessible activities in January but you need to know where to look.

Universities/colleges are a pretty good source of cultural activities and other things in a town but their classes, and to a lesser degree libraries (it depends as some libraries let people just walk-in though not check-out material; others control access pretty tightly), are not really public resources.
This is great. I interact with bluffers, deflectors, knowledge hoarders, cargo cult experts, and gatekeepers on a daily basis, will this help?
*Unmaking. But yes. Some real collapse of the republic scale shit, take over by Orban style autocratic political men. Pax Americana & our influence in the world abroad for sure.

This is potentially falling of the Soviet Union bad. Not that we will dissolve the union (still hopefully a very low chance) but that the system of government collapses & the various business-mafias squabble to claim what they can in the power vacuum that follows; a loss of national integrity.
that's not gonna salve their persecution complex,
unfortunately
What he did to win the scroll competition had to do with data analysis, not ancient history, so of course it could be relevant. But none of us, including the author of the article, knows what they're specifically doing, so it's not possible to say how relevant it is. It's a pity the reporter didn't do some reporting about that, instead of writing a hit piece calling them lackeys.
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Apparently the game divides the various vehicles into tiers based on their performance. Within a match, only vehicles from a certain "band" of performance may be played, meaning either those vehicles are similar in power or have playerbases that manages a similar output.
The closing longevity gap between BEVs and ICE vehicles in Great Britain
> Are such drastic action appropriate given the current state of the US?

With the debt ceiling ever increasing, approaching a trillion dollars in interest per year, nearing $6k/year per working individual, I would say the correct time to put any effort, whatsoever, into reducing spending, was 20 years ago.

I think the fundamental problem is we lack adversarial systems within the government: it doesn't like to hurt itself. Trying to cut jobs/waste/find fraud is political/career suicide for anyone in government. Accountability requires a true adversary/"outsider". Should that be DOGE, or its current implementation? Probably not. Should the adversarial concept of DOGE exist? I would enjoy seeing arguments against the concept. It seems like it's severely needed.
Looking for companies in the B2B/D2C e-commerce sector in niche markets.

Location: Greece
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: [Go, Postgresql, Python, Typescript, ...], [React, Next.js, Flask/Starlette, Hasura, Node.js/Bun],[LLM, Vector DBs, RAG], [Ecommerce & ERP Architecture, Front End Performance Optimization, SEO, CS/SS Tracking, Google & Facebook Ads + their APIs], [Any type of Bots at scale], [Linux desktop & server, A bit of networks, Docker, VPS, CI/CD, AWS/GCP]
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hambos22/
Email: me@cpoul.dev

I have more than 10 years of experience in the software and marketing aspects of B2B/B2C e-commerce (Europe & US). For the past 2 years, I took a deep dive into D2C as a Technical Co-Founder of a fragrance-related brand (https://yuma.gr), successfully positioning us in the premium market at the lowest cost possible, by developing the e-commerce and ERP platform in-house.

I can handle all aspects of e-commerce with a focus on growth. Examples include:

- Extensive Google & Facebook Ads automation at scale via their APIs

- Distributed bots for scraping millions of SKUs daily for dynamic pricing

- Deep & proven knowledge of e-commerce & ERP architecture & development

- Complex and custom-made solutions (e.g., in-house developed Klaviyo alternative)

- Creative approaches to streamlining internal operations

- Frontend performance & SEO micro-optimization

- Landing page optimization for conversions

I prefer long-term commitments and typically work on projects for 6 months to 1 year, as I treat each project as my own. Having developed my D2C brand to a technical level that now requires only maintenance and marketing, my schedule has become more flexible. I'm ready to help companies in different markets while expanding my skills and knowledge.
I assume the Google engineers have a sense of humor
The Great Ashby: Complexity, Variety, and Information (1996)
Lots of mapping apps have no equivalent, especially with an interface optimized to work on a phone
Sure, but that was my point, was that just overriding rdrand would be much more ham-fisted than any practical attack I would expect someone to weaponize this into outside of a PoC.
As someone from the developing world where USAID regularly funded organizations that were often divisive and insidiously subversive, can’t say that I’ll be unhappy to see this thing dismantled.
Yeah same, it’s kind of a weird name choice to English speakers - “high trad boy”
Dude I responded to old boy saying 'I fear what might happen to these guys' with 'somethings happening'. I didn't stake out a moral position.
If you believe things have been run well at these agencies (that you didn’t even know existed), that would explain your position.

Imagine someone who believes that things have not been run properly. Now imagine half the country feeling this way.
I've been recruiting a lot over the past 8 years. First as a manager, later as an engineering department leader, and most recently in the role of a specialize recruiter.

I've seen a few things change.

The interviews themselves are for the most part unchanged. Occasionally I see someone who seems to be using AI during the interview. It's sort of obvious. They fist give a vague answer. It's as if they repeat the question. Then they answer while not maintaining eye contact. When asked a followup or a "why" question, they fall apart. They do poorly.

I find more people pass the written screen nowadays and then bomb the interview. I'm guessing they use AI. C'est la vie.

It seems that a lot more people are looking for work now than 3+ years ago. It seems that for roles that require top-notch coding ability, there are relatively few people on the market. Im guessing that great people are staying at their jobs longer now. Makes sense.

After a candidate gives an answer, probe. Ask why they think that. Ask what alternatives they might consider. Watch their body language and how quickly they answer.

For context, I hire very experienced developers in Poland for very demanding remote roles in the US.
Why yes, let's let a totalitarian state become a superpower and start dictating the international order. I'm sure Xi Jinping will prove to be just as cuddly as Winnie the Pooh; nothing to worry about here.
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I don't get how this could be a coup, Trump was duly elected, and he's delegated this power to Musk. It could certainly be bizarre and highly illegal, but to me, the essential piece of a coup is unseating the rightful leadership, and there's no element of that at present.

Judging from his last term, at some point Trump is likely to get tired of Musk, kick him out of the administration, declare he always thought Musk was a bad guy, and pretend like he never listened to him. If Musk tries to stay in after that, it could be a coup.
The Average Kid Is Better Than the Average Adult
O3-Mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA
Not if it has the effect of circumventing Congressional funding discretion.
That would be relevant if our governmental budgets were printed on ancient scrolls. What was the point of posting this?
Thanks for unflagging it Dang, I wish I could have seen it yesterday.
I'm surprised - isn't this game just a skin on Overwatch? So does Overwatch have an RCE?
These "kiddos" are committing crimes.
I am so tired of this gender war nonsense.
By what metric do you think the U.S. is as “economically dominant” as it was in the period after WWII?
They're cutting their opponents' access to federal funds.
There a lot of possibilities.

There's the "Sears" kind of photo where somebody unskilled works a camera installed in a studio which is not too expensive.

There's something a step up from that (maybe $100) where a pro photographer does the same thing.

I do environmental portraits, often with a 90mm or 135mm prime, sometimes with a wide zoom. Sometimes I discover places where I can get a great photograph of anybody in terms of lighting and background. It can be really special if you get a photo of somebody in an environment that's special to them but I don't think that's what you want for a dating site. But one of my generic environment shots would really be a winner, and I can shoot one in ten minutes inclusive of the walk to and from my office.

I'm not good at the people part of it. Some people photograph really well always (the alumni relations guy from my school, a disabled friend who might be high-functioning autistic) other people (me, my wife, my son) just don't. I can get a good photograph of somebody like that despite themselves but I have to try many sessions.

I've been doing sports photography seriously for about two years, lately I've come to see it as "people photography" and realized I do better if I think about it in terms of "getting pictures that make the players look great" as opposed to "following the ball". I am doing a volunteer gig that I'm treating as an audition for paying work and I'm planning to get a bunch of portraits out of it, so far as the technical stuff I went to the arena with my neurodivergent friend and used him as a stand-in. Now that I think about it I have two weeks to do something about the people side.
Their point (i assume because had same convo with my dad) is that the debt is such an emergency we should toss the rule of law
I had the word "Verniedlichung" in mind, of course this is also not the right term, but as I been living outside of France for the past 25 years, switching daily between French, German and English, I am sometimes "stuck" and can't get the right word out. And this in whatever language I am thinking at the moment.

I now accept that I am losing my French while not being really fluent in any other language.
> We can and should yell at young people for knowingly doing illegal shit and raiding our government, though.

Why just young people? If an old person does it then it's ok? I think GP is wrong about this, but you're inadvertently proving GP's point and making me wonder if maybe there is some ageism going on...

I would hope that most people recognize that different standards for people by age are not ok, but that isn't the same as different standards for different levels of experience and qualification.
Everyone likes to throw the "1st amendment" in the conversation, when it suites them... but I agree given the recent retaliatory tendencies, it is difficult to criticize the current administration, and effectively leaving it in its own echo chamber.

I am wondering if that partially explains how Musk radicalized himself lately. While I like the idea of absolute free speech, it kinda falls when the powerful are retaliatory... and kinda loose with the rule of law.

While I get the idea of "the bureaucracy" having its own life sometimes getting in a way of change, and the President willing to get more done, faster. But the fact that the bureaucrats do not carring on sometimes is because they follow a due process.

Now with those young men taking the control of the $6T/yr, this is a tremendous power. Even unintentionally, a mistake could have dire consequences.
Interesting bit of news that they have (seeming illegally) installed a private commercial server connected to HIPAA-protected data:

> A new server being used to control these databases has been placed in a conference room that Musk’s team is using as their command center, according to an OPM staffer. The staffer described the server as a piece of commercial hardware they believed was not obtained through the proper federal procurement process.

> There is a legal requirement that the installation of a new server undergo a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), a formal process to ensure the change would not create any security vulnerabilities. But in this instance, the staff believes there was no PIA. “So this application and corresponding hardware are illegally operating,” they added.
Nor did my parents, but I guess I should have clarified better. They at least had the option to be able to do this. It was taken away when Concorde was grounded, but now we have an opportunity for supersonic flight for people, of course with a price tag.

That's a good thing in my books.
I came in first place in my college CTF. Where do I sign up to decide which parts of the government should be shut down?
It's the endgame of cheats. If it's not supreme over all programs, you can cheat by chaining things when it isn't looking or before the anitcheat starts. By running a service from startup with maximal privilege, they can prevent cheats at the expense of running a service from startup as low at maximal privilege.

Arguably they could have already gotten all sensitive user data without that privilege if their program was hacked
How long until they get slapped with a trademark claim?
Is our video deleted after the book is created?
Sorry about that -- just updated to the public facing job post! Thanks for flagging.
One thing does not preclude the other. If someone keeps selling you incrementally better computers that consume more energy, and they also happen to sell you the energy you’re using, then (a) you should be suspicious and (b) you’d be right to suspect they’re out of ideas.

But you don’t necessarily need to stop buying the computers if it still makes sense to you.
Seconded. Any bank that does is not a bank I would use.
so were some folk that did some bad things on Jan 6… :)
This is for job posts. There is a separate post called "who wants to be hired", linked in the description above.
They're public servants. Most public servants have their name, position, level, salary, etc listed in public datasets. There is no "doxxing" of public servants. This isn't a usenet.
Is this implementing TCP in userspace?
> What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?

Two main things I've seen:

1. Recommendations are a heck of a lot more important

2. Internal applicants are suddenly at a big advantage
Mitmproxy v11.1 can do a similar thing
I don't see why anyone should worry about the people actually committing crimes and being in legal jeopardy. That's the purpose of the legal system. People need to learn that ignorance of the law is not a defense.
But that has to be an act of congress. Congress creates and funds government departments. The president can't just dismantle them by fiat.

That he's (apparently) tasking people to do so who don't even have the requisite experience or clearances is just adding insult to injury.
Not to mention the majority of the legislative branch is at a minimum going to pretend they're all for it
The goalpost here is pretty specific: a couple hundred people try for 4,000 hours to figure out a "universal jailbreak" which means it converts the model to one that answers all 10 of a set of "forbidden" questions. Since they couldn't, the technique is considered robust.

Looking at the data though, there apparently exist jailbreak techniques that make the model answer five of the questions at full detail, and nine at "half detail". Given that the model would ostensibly be deployed to millions of people who would collectively use it for millions of hours, I'm not sure how confident I am that the 10-question barrier would remain unbroken for long.
Ask HN: Good References on Agentic AI?
I have already delivered several projects based on RAG and generative AI. Part of the reason why I have been succesfull is that I started to document myself even before starting to sell and that has helped me both to manage expectations and select use cases that were a good fit for the technology. Now that the focus is shifting to Agentic AI I would like to follow the same approach and get up to speed. I am relying on the community to try to make my investigation faster. Who can suggest some good references on it? I am looking for material that is factual, covers the theoretical foundations and avoids any hype. I am fine with deeply technical material and scientific papers.
Your last paragraph seems to reinforce my point that "collaboration tools still aren't a satisfactory replacement for many kinds in-person work" given that you and your coworkers spent significant time and money to have occasional in-person meetings.

Perhaps I should be more nuanced since few tech roles these days are entirely remote or entirely in-person -- many remote workers occasionally meet up in person and many in-person office workers occasionally work from home.

The rest of your post makes the case that there are downsides to working in an office. I agree, there are! (Though as a parent with young children who recently worked from home for a week to keep an eye on sick kids I'm amused by the implication that an office is noisier or has more interruptions than being at home.)

To be clear: Remote collaboration is perfectly satisfactory (or better!) for many tasks. And even those tasks where it is suboptimal it may still be a net positive because of the higher costs associated with in-person work, including but not limited to the ones you list.

However, it is worth honestly acknowledging that there are also benefits to working in person. It's up to each company to balance those costs and benefits, but my guess is that eventually some companies will be better off working (mostly) remotely, and others will continue to work (mostly) in-person.
> Manufacturing and extraction won't come back to the US unless businesses are convinced this is a long term change, not a bargaining point.

I wrote that yesterday. Today, "Trump pauses Mexico tariffs."[1]
The Wall Street Journal is covering this heavily. Businesses have no idea what to do yet. WSJ article: "Trump’s Tariffs Usher In New Trade Wars. The Ultimate Goal Remains Unclear."

For now, you can't go to a bank and borrow to expand your US plant that needs some tariff protection to be profitable. Too risky if policy changes.
Can you insure against "Trump risk"? Hedge with futures?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-tariffs-preside...
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deleted a group that was devoted solely to making the government more efficient. Makes perfect sense, in Trumpistan logic.
Fat Cells Retain a 'Memory' of Obesity, Making It Hard to Lose Weight
Send the US Capitol Police? Might makes right apparently, so why would you not act as such?
SEEKING WORK | Greece | Remote only | Ecommerce Architect / Marketing Operations

Looking for companies in the B2B/D2C e-commerce sector in niche markets.

I have more than 10 years of experience in the software and marketing aspects of B2B/B2C e-commerce (Europe & US). For the past 2 years, I took a deep dive into D2C as a Technical Co-Founder of a fragrance-related brand (https://yuma.gr), successfully positioning us in the premium market at the lowest cost possible, by developing the e-commerce and ERP platform in-house.

I can handle all aspects of e-commerce with a focus on growth. Examples include:

- Extensive Google & Facebook Ads automation at scale via their APIs

- Distributed bots for scraping millions of SKUs daily for dynamic pricing

- Deep & proven knowledge of e-commerce & ERP architecture & development

- Complex and custom-made solutions (e.g., in-house developed Klaviyo alternative)

- Creative approaches to streamlining internal operations

- Frontend performance & SEO micro-optimization

- Landing page optimization for conversions

I prefer long-term commitments and typically work on projects for 6 months to 1 year, as I treat each project as my own. Having developed my D2C brand to a technical level that now requires only maintenance and marketing, my schedule has become more flexible. I'm ready to help companies in different markets while expanding my skills and knowledge.

Technologies: [Go, Postgresql, Python, Typescript, ...], [React, Next.js, Flask/Starlette, Hasura, Node.js/Bun], [LLM, Vector DBs, RAG], [Ecommerce & ERP Architecture, Front End Performance Optimization, SEO, CS/SS Tracking, Google & Facebook Ads + their APIs], [Any type of Bots at scale], [Linux desktop & server, A bit of networks, Docker, VPS, CI/CD, AWS/GCP]
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hambos22/
Email: me@cpoul.dev
Lab Mouse is officially the worst job in the world.
I don't know how exploitable this really is, as a lot of Linux systems load microcode at boot time... once it's been loaded, I don't think it's possible to load another one (outside of rebooting).
So, uh, when you tear it down, before you rebuild, who is going to manage the military? How do we stay competitive in science? Does it seem likely we will recover from a full tear-down quickly enough to stave off permanent damage to our economy and mental health?

The idea that a bunch of yokels working for lulz could tear down and rebuild a system better is daft.
I thought Marco Rubio is acting director and has given them authority. Is this untrue? Why do you say apparent lack of legitimate authority?
Stop unaudited government spending? Ukraine says it’s received only about half of what the Biden admin said it gave it.

It's looking like this was at least larping as a 40+ billion dollar slush fund. There may have been some legitimate (useful) spending, and they will find out after auditing the system, but it also looks like there was lots of waste and once-removed (one degree of separation) self-dealing.
Yes and it is fine. That’s a scary number with zero context, but given the borrowing rate and the investments we’re making in future GDP, this is good borrowing!

it isn’t good when a group of people tries to destroy the entity that’s making those investments. These shitheads are basically corporate raiders coming in to tear things apart for personal gain.

Ironically, it is the “fiscally responsible”, “WhY nOt RuN gOvErNmEnT lIkE a BuSiNeSs” gang who want to destroy any fiscally responsible investment.

If they want to reduce spending meaningfully, they need to cut defense, social security, and Medicare. They won’t, because it’s political suicide.