skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bessent Takes Helm of Consumer Finance Watchdog, Orders Halt to Work
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/bessent-takes-helm-of-co...
https://archive.today/bPpN8
AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability
Hadn't heard of PostHog before stumbling on this post. Just wanted to mention that "hybrid product analyst/product manager" caught my eye, and your other material on product management is great!
> Way too much magic.

Are you referring to Ruby, or specifically Rails?
Deepseek 14b and 32b should be good enough, they are based on Alibaba's Qwen model and usually the best models from opensource 40b or less.

Deepseek 8b is based on Meta's Llama3

I would say 70b doesn't worth the cost in comparison to 32b except coding... but if you want a model for coding, then you should try a model specifically trained for that, like Deepseek-Coder or Mistral's Codestral.

Deepseek-r1 is considered a general use AI. It would do good enough at many topics but won't excel on everything.
Um, the author is clearly familiar enough with Wasm, but probably knows enough to know to avoid a company that tried to trademark WebAssembly.

> understandable concerns about the fact we, Wasmer, a VC-backed corporation, attempted to trademark the name of a non-profit organization, specifically WebAssembly

Acknowledgement of wrongdoing.
It won't start with nukes, but as a member of NATO, France would have to have to respond in some way militarily.
It is an excuse. Google doesn't choose ads for you, they shoot out this bundle of info about you and just display the highest bidder. That means whatever ads you see are basically dominated by whoever overpaid the worst.
Lehto's Law did a video on this recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zewe9DWLEG8
>But what is in your opinion a better signal for junior or new grads?

For students specifically, the strongest signal is if they've done research with a past collaborator of mine and my collaborator vouches for them. It's a great signal because it's very high barrier to entry and absolutely does not scale.

Realistically, being able to speak confidently about something they did/built during their education is a decent proxy. If they can handle open-ended follow-up questions like "what did you learn?" and "what trade-offs did you make?" and "how would you tweak it under X different requirements?" then that's a great signal too.

These aren't "gotcha" questions, but they insist on the candidate being reasonably competent and (most importantly) an actual human who can think on their feet.
Auricle | Founding Biomechanical Engineer (Neurotech Medical Device) | ONSITE (Mountain View, CA) | Full-time | https://auricle.com

Auricle is developing a next-generation neurostimulation implant to restore hearing and the ability to understand speech in the millions of people who no longer benefit from acoustic amplification with hearing aids but who aren't prepared to take on the risks of a cochlear implant.

We're searching for a full-time engineer to join our founding team. Our device and prototypes are partly mechanical, electrical and software so we'll need someone who can wear multiple hats but is comfortable primarily in the mechanical domain as we execute on early clinical and pre-clinical studies.

Experience with rapid prototyping using 3D printing, CAD and bench models is a must. Experience of medical device development within a quality management system and developing pre-clinical models is highly valued. Bonus points for electrical engineering experience, programming experience (Python/Matlab) and a passion for auditory science. More than anything, we're looking for someone who will be highly motivated to help bring a complex but life changing device to patients.

We're a small team formed out of Stanford and backed by YC (W21), based out of Fogarty Innovation in Mountain View. The role is primarily in-person with very occasional travel to study sites and with some flexibility for hybrid work from time to time.

We're excited to hear from you! francis@auricle.com
Robinhood to Offer Super Bowl Betting via Kalshi
The assertion is that they "learned" that Bitcoin came from Occupy from an AI.

If AI is teaching you, you are going to collect a thousand papercuts of lies.
Thank you! I'm always looking for books in this specific sub-genre and have a hard time pinpointing exactly what it is. Something like "nonficiton history of a specific scientific or mathematical idea".

Another example is "The Code Book" by Simon Singh, which compiles various historical stories related to codes, cyphers, and cryptography.
And lots came from places where the original culture of the objects had been replaced and/or was being erased.
>If the world lost half it's people, it would be 1970s level population with modern technology.

Sure, but with modern technology that they can't easily replace or repair. How long does the technology last? Is anything we make today made for longevity?

>I think you and the parent poster are underestimating the amount of redundancy

Redundancy is inefficient and costs money. We live in a world without warehouses, because just-in-time shipping is cheaper. We live in a world where every 6 months the soda can you get out of the vending machine has a little less aluminum in it than half a year ago because someone figured out how to shave a bit more off of that without it rupturing in transit. There's less redundancy in this world than you imagine, because reducing the redundancy cut costs and the stock price got a boost a few years ago. Why have spare parts on hand, when there will be even better parts manufactured next year?

>If the rest of the world were walled off, we wouldn't go back to the stone age.

Yeh, we would. It wouldn't happen instantly, but it would happen within decades. That would be true even if the population reduction were the only problem.

>If everyone else in the world fell over dead and the resources were available, the US would be massively better off than now.

People *are the resource*. Everything else is just rocks in the ground. You can have a million square miles of old growth forest, but it's not timber unless there are people who can do the lumberjack thing. You can have a trillion barrels of oil in the ground 200ft down, but it's not fuel and plastic unless there are people to pump it out and refine it. So on and so on. People were always the resource, and while not all people are effectively utilized all the time, the more you have the more resources you have. And there's this absurd network effect where two people are more than twice as useful as one person, and so on, so that when you have truly large numbers of people you have absurd amounts of resources.

Quite possibly, the only thing for which this effect isn't true is real estate. That's sort of a fixed supply.
Yeah, I'd look at university towns and small cities generally in the northern end of the country. Though it's probably not just the largest universities--there are smaller schools that caan still give a place a feel of a university town. Then pick some climate metrics like average inches of snow. Create a shortish list and go from there. I suspect some of the criteria are also less important than others.

Continuing ed opportunities are probably actually one of the tougher things. There are often things you can do informally with unis if you know the landscape but it's not something that's routinely offered as part as I know. There are community colleges and nightime continuing ed but, honestly, I'd probably mostly look online for that sort of thing.
What Agile is Not: or at least what it was never meant to be
this is literally the entire point of golden handcuffs.

But those are only as tight as he lets them be. He can choose to be happy with where he is, or make a change.
I didn't say my catch rate is 100%. But catching the people who are bad at it is the entire point. I don't care about not catching someone proficient enough they can hold up even in a direct conversation where they have to explain what they did. That's someone who is likely just insecure but smart enough. They still shouldn't cheat, but they're at least clever. I had an old teacher who used to joke that you're allowed to cheat during the exam but you can only bring a small note card, point being that if you put enough effort into preparing your cheating that it fit on the card you were good enough to just take the actual test.

It's the people who have no idea what the hell they're doing and who try to pass of a solution they can't explain and by definition those people you will catch if you know how to interview.
Where are you buying this? Might be handy for a job search. Zoominfo basically doesn't have a b2c offering and I am not paying several thousand for an experiment in improving my career
googling probably provides better advice but it said basically - if you have time, wrap your shirt around your non-dominant hand. try and keep that hand shoved deep in the dog's mouth while you punch it in the neck until it's dead.

googling generally recommends "get the fuck away" which is probably a better approach whenever possible lol
> An updated version achieved similar robustness on synthetic evaluations, and did so with a 0.38% increase in refusal rates and moderate additional compute costs.

"Synthetic evaluations" aren't 70 hours of Pliny the Prompter.
Huh, that's interesting. I read a lot of Hugo winning stuff and always found them well written even if not massively engaging.
This is a good read! Do you have a list of other players in this field and the data or other info they shared (through interviews, blog posts, …)?
Yes, all contention is just queueing on shared resources...
The owners of a corp aren't the ones paying tax. The corp has its own balance sheet.
> The Military is an expensive operation and the Plutocrats actually are willing to maintain the flow of bread to the right places. When the cash-flow is under plutocratic control, their military budget can be used to ensure no disruptions to the new system. Enough service members will still get their paychecks as to not incur any wrath over the switch.

They're already working towards cutting military benefits, so this doesn't hold up. It's more than just keeping the paychecks moving but also keeping or improving quality of life. The moment they gut military healthcare and tell them to find private health instead it's not gonna look good for loyalty if Trump orders them to shut down protests.

As for the flow of bread, they're not willing to make short term sacrifices to solidify control. The fascist play would've been to use the power of the government to artificially lower food prices and create single payer healthcare to placate the masses until the takeover is total and complete. But tariffs will continue to raise food prices, eggs will spiral out of control and people will blame the person in charge.

> All of the American people, from rich to poor, have survived terrible economic crashes before, and this one probably won't be any worse to the top 10% than 1929 was.

This is true, but a key point is that the far right has fostered an immense level of anger and hatred. An economic crash would be met with unprecedented violence from people that suddenly can no longer afford basic healthcare or food. One of the key indicators of this issue is that the multiple attempts on Trump's life didn't come from anyone on the left, but from the right. The assassination of the healthcare CEO wasn't a communist plot, but rather from a person that followed along with the conservative mindset until the medical system radicalized him. An actual Great Depression event triggered by the looting of the federal government would send these individuals into overdrive.
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity
Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Python, C#, F#, SQL
Résumé/CV: https://1drv.ms/b/c/29f41e73a186f9b0/ETOVdm0thvVKoW0aDs0lJ-cBnW8P0mQhtY2O8gV28f3TMQ
Email: On resume
GitHub: On resume

I'm a passionate Software Engineer with 15 years of experience, and have had worked on a wide variety stacks and frameworks. My ideal next role would be with something deeply technical. Previously, I've worked on Audio/Video hardware using Rust and C, buildt Authn/Authz for PII using Rust, React and TypeScript, and handled SMS using React, TypeScript, MongoDb and Box.
Nissan Still Sells the 28-Year-Old Y61 Patrol in Some Parts of the World
Nice book. You might also want to check out “Bayesian Epistemology” 2 volumes by Titelbaum
Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game
YCombinator is complicit in creating this coup. Many high ranking involved members are part of the neo-reactionary movement, or 'dark enlightenment'
Please point me to instructions on how to make my own bluesky instance that federates with the existing bluesky, and which does not rely on bluesky's authentication.
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

Remote: open to remote and hybrid

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Python, Ruby / Rails, Java / Spring, SQL, React, Node, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V9LcpwgIUEw-Z7wYI3E0QVIPZzF...

Email: suvorov2025@icloud.com

10 years in the industry, with the last 4 an an EM / senior. 70/30 backend/frontend focus - and equally enjoying both coding and people work, especially when it comes to mentorship. Reach out if you need an all-team, zero drama senior dev.
Cultures have identified themselves with visual cues since, well, probably before people were humans.
False headline. No where in article does it say they were removed. Just talks about using AI to prevent new apps from coming to the store in the first place.
if it costs $0.50 to raise one rat, then the fee for killing one can be $0.05. storing them somewhere, feeding them,etc.. surely costs some amount. if people are just throwing stuff rats can eat, then nothing is new, that's what's happening today.
> But can anybody name a wrapper company as/more valuable than foundation model companies

Ask the same question about databases. Then consider these wrapper companies:
Salesforce, LinkedIn, AirBnB, Workday, ...

The only database company worth more then Salesforce is Oracle.
Other database companies are worth much less.
Tariffs are wildly unfair to foreign manufacturers. Theres no reason we should be taxing everyone to help domestic manufacturers.
Perplexity as a search engine really sucks compared to paid ChatGPT with built in web search.

The Perplexity UI feels like something from the early 2000s
Indeed, but while those contemporaries (really? a decade difference? In programming land? That's multiple paradigm shifts but sure why not) grew up and evolved to keep appealing to an every changing crowd, Perl 5 didn't, for better or for worse.

But compared to C style languages, it's going to be "for worse". Perl code is not easy to read unless you already know Perl, or someone intentionally wrote it inefficiently enough to be easy to read to people who don't.

That's why I balk at it. Using Perl in 2025 because you have to: sure, we all have responsibilities. Using Perl in 2025 because you like working in it: also sure, enjoy what you enjoy. Talking about the Perl code you wrote to do something cool: pretty cool, nice job! But that won't stop me from also going "but: really? Perl? In 2025? You couldn't have picked a modern language?".
"The court held 5–4 that the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations including for-profits, nonprofit organizations, labor unions, and other kinds of associations."

? I don't see what's insane about this
Can't mediapipe detect faces at 60fps?
Getting access-denied on your CV
What customers? I've never heard anyone saying "I wish Claude would refuse more of my requests".
If you were given computers by your employer for work then the OS isn’t your problem. You are paid to use and adapt to the OS. If you don’t want to do that job you should go flip burgers.

If you bought computers from your employer and you want to change the OS go ahead and do so. I’m not criticizing the person who does that. But whining about the OS on that machine makes you look bad because you’re the one who chose to buy the computer. If you don’t like the OS that’s on it go why did you buy the computer? Nobody twisted your arm to buy your employer’s computer.

Again, Windows users complaining about their computer having Windows and then continuing to use Windows is tired and annoying. They complained about ever major version and once they were finally forced by EOL to use the newest version the newest version became their favorite. All the “Windows 10 will leave my cold dead hands” people said the same thing about Windows 7 and Windows XP.

And again, my argument was that people who don’t want to learn and adapt just claim there’s scarce to no improvement because they don’t have any willingness to discover those improvements because the initial adaptation is a dealbreaker for them. They’ll go to their graves saying that Windows XP was the best Windows OS ever while hand waving over all of its flaws and limitations.

So, have fun having worse battery life because your laptop doesn’t support dynamic display refresh rate, having a worse content experience because your OS doesn’t support HDR properly even though your monitor does, having less secure slower WiFi because your OS doesn’t support WiFi 7 and WPA3, having a cluttered work environment because file explorer doesn’t support tabs, needing to install third party programs to unarchive tar and 7zip formats, and the list of feature additions you’re missing out on goes on and on.

I guess those improvements are scarce to none because by not using them they must not exist. A tree in the woods doesn’t fall down if you aren’t there, right?
"Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky is an excellent sci-fi novel that also includes ants that were uplifted by a human terraforming experiment.

They're interesting semi-aliens because the colonies are incredibly capable in many respects but ultimately lack self-awareness, which leaves the ants open to manipulation by other uplifted species that are capable of motivated planning. The ants become like biological technology for the other species.
This is really cool! Plus I like the ramification that the 'hard bits' of playing a game like tetris might be contained in the vision/recognition phase.

My only gotcha is with calling DFS 'classical AI'. I get they have a fancy hand-tuned cost function, but if that is AI, then I guess all approximate optimization algorithms are AI? Maybe in 60s that kinda of classification would have been fine, but not now, right?

Either way, that is a minor nerd-gripe with the messaging and does not, at all, detract from an otherwise rad project.
Why not just verify the output? It’s faster than generating the entire thing yourself. Why do you need perfection in a productivity tool?
Thank you very much for doing that. It is actually somehow impressive. It got a lot of big picture comparison and points correct. There are problem with some details but overall it does save some work for initial search process.

What I like is that it asked you before clarifying questions before but I wonder if it just generic. Because the prompt mentioned that this would be for "presentation at a topical meeting of particle physicists" but still asked its last question about

> Intended Audience: Should the analysis assume a general physics audience or a more specialized group of particle physicists?

Also probably expected but it didn't include or reference graphs/plots.
Windows 10 hasn’t received a big update in around 4 years, right? Meanwhile Windows 11 has been getting large updates during that time.

Windows 10 has been in security patch only mode for nearly a half a decade.
I'm pretty sure they have customers who are saying "I want to deploy a chat bot on my website that can't be tricked into giving out prices I don't agree to".
A ton of birds also die from power lines and getting hit by cars.

~30mil/year from power lines.

~300mil/year from cars/trucks hitting them.

6000 is nothing.

Whenever someone talks about how alternative energy kills a bunch of birds, you know they're a pretty dumb person who can't be bothered with context.
Is this just supplemental income, or are you actually making a living from it?

Isn't it a bit of a risk to tout the success of this idea among a tech crowd capable of going off and creating competitors?
Congrats, you are now important enough to be a piece on the board, and to therefore get jerked around like one.
You guys are still hiring data scientists too right?
OpenAI once again trying to drive up hype by making ChatGPT seem mysterious and dangerous, and the tech press uncritically eats it up. Ars even invokes the tired cliche of ChatGPT getting us into nuclear war in this article. I don't know about redditors but I'm sure that ChatGPT could persuade a Tech Journalist, they seem as impressionable as children on anything AI-related.
"I wonder how many people are telling the truth about something, and aren't taken seriously because they're problematic about something else."

Isn't that everybody now? Credibility is a strange thing in the age of social media.
only if the bots use poison. impact-based methods at worst would harm the feet of pedestrians, but the public would need to create accounts, receive payment,etc.. so tracking them down and arresting them would be trivial.

Imagine kids on their switches hunting for rats using robots!
This is why the 2nd amendment is so important.
I think you misunderstand my proposal. I am not describing a fraud classifier.

I am describing fine-tuning an embedding space based on papers with known fraud.

The content of the fraudelent paper which includes information such as authorship and other citations can be made to exist on an embedding space.

Supervised fine-tuning on labels will alter the shape of that embedding space.

The resulting embeddings that would come from such a fine-tuned model would generate different clusterings of papers than what you'd get than if you did not have the labeled fraudelent data at all.
I am confused. Roles say ' fully remote role open to people living in either Denver, CO or Boulder, CO'. In what sense is this 'fully remote'?
This is often parroted and almost never true. US courts will not kill one of the biggest and most well-recognized companies in the world because of one tiny corner supermarket.
Chrome launched their own root program a couple years ago: https://blog.chromium.org/2022/09/announcing-launch-of-chrom...
The entire offline installer of over 15 years worth of features is 120 MB for Windows, it's quite impressive really considering the amount of features that includes. If they took the typical approach of web pages run in Chrome that might be multiple GB by now.
> As they say: a language is a dialect with an army and a navy

As opposed to a country, which needs an airline and a beer: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/16/beer-airline/
I'm sorry I just think we're going in circles.

A few posts up I clearly said use encapsulation and then mutate state via known methods. These would be just as traceable in your IDE/debugger.

Further, I have also repeatedly mentioned both module-level and thread-level "globals".

And I understand how concurrency works.

Take care.
Is good but when you need that extra lens shift camera, it goes from mass market to super niche.