skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, not saying it is easy and I'm not saying that there is no trend. Screen time has gone up, obesity has gone up, neuroticism has gone up

Im not convinced that money is the solution to addiction and just a few more purchases away. In fact, I think rampant consumerism and trained helplessness are the crux of the problem.
> > I feel like HN is decidedly less awful than most other discussion boards

I agree, but that's unfortunately a very low bar these days.

If we got rid of upvotes/downvotes (keep flagging privileges, but make it public record, and abuse-it-you-lose-it) the variety of thought and ideas on HN would 100x overnight.
what actually happens to the interviewee? Do they suddenly go blank when they realise the LLM has replied "I'm sorry I cannot assist you with this", or they try to make something up?
Reminds me of Nissan dot com lawsuit:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
A lot of this is defined by the NIH, K23/R01 grant amounts specify what kind of salary they support and are kind of defined by the powers that be...

UC system def has more overhead than usual, and there may be some cost-of-living adjustments but...

Hence why a lot of us went into private practice...
There’s no “check and balances” issue here. This is entirely within the executive branch. Congress forked over a bunch of money to the executive to give out as grants. People with delegated authority from the elected president and his senate confirmed department head are stopping payment on some grants. That delegated authority is the only authority any executive branch employee has.

Now, it’s fair to say that Trump and Musk are exploiting the fact that Congress abdicated its “power of the purse” to a great extent by giving the executive a bunch of slush funds instead of making specific appropriations. But that’s Congress’s problem.

Also, Musk has a top secret security clearance. But I assume SSNs aren’t even classified and there’s tons of line employees with access to the databases.
Focus on your data structures a.k.a. data tables. Those depend on your problem domain (the thing you are poking at with software).

Then and only then, you may want to look at what is too slow on your particular CPU and OS.

All the rest has been noise since before LLMs. This includes "algorithms" a.k.a. flow charts. Fred Brooks boiled it down to its essentials. And that never changed.
Practice. The more you listen the faster you can go. I can digest it at that speed, yes. Sometimes I watch shows like that especially if there's a lot of filler content, anime in particular. No one has time to go through a thousand episode.
and we all know that bzip2(1997) is incompatible with bzip(1996).
I came into comments to post this but I guess the earley bird gets the worm.

I have an Earley parser I’m very happy with which is in a project I’m going to open source soon, it’s nice to have a parser where you just don’t have to think about all those edge cases
The Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Trump Administration's Proposed Tariffs
It was obvious from the moment ChatGPT went live that this was going to intellectually stunt junior developers.
I'll check it out.

The thing is that the math changes when the system is saturated. The closer you get to tipping over, the more each new request costs. I feel like I can clearly recall times when I had to make a Sophie's Choice between p50 and p95 times because of issues of this sort.
This is 5-10 years out. What OpenAI is displaying here I've been able to do with relatively little code, a bit of scraping and far less capable models for a year. I really don't see what is novel or useful here.
Not a lawyer but does not enforcing your trademark or copyright automatically relinquish your rights to it? On an individual basis? I'm not sure that is correct, as in, they could have let him sit in a sort of strategic legal ambiguity and spent those resources going after more flagrant violators.

But yeah, dragging a blue collar person through the legal system and you're basically threatening their entire livelihood and family. Good luck with those optics.
it also depends on the lab.

It's a very small world for various reasons and sometimes, there's a good combination between a PI and a hosting institution. Sometimes there's not. If the guy who's doing what you want to do has his lab at UAB, you go to UAB. That being said, once you get your K23 or R01, because of NIH matching funds, you have more of a choice of where you go.
The exact same holds for the pure AI wrappers - they'll end up similarly valued to UIs around Postgres.
> Impoundment is an act by a President of the United States of not spending money that has been appropriated by the U.S. Congress. Thomas Jefferson was the first president to exercise the power of impoundment in 1801. The power was available to all presidents up to and including Richard Nixon, and was regarded as a power inherent to the office, although one with limits. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was passed in response to the abuse of power under President Nixon.[1] The Act removed that power, and Train v. City of New York (whose facts predate the 1974 Act, but which was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court after its passage), closed potential loopholes in the 1974 Act. The president's ability to indefinitely reject congressionally approved spending was thus removed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_...
> And I buy this stuff. Every time I need customer service and I'm getting stonewalled I just go onto a marketplace, find an exec and buy their details for pennies

The article author claims that you can't get this stuff for under $10k. Where do you find it for pennies?
Show HN: Scheduled PC Tasks, automatically schedule simulations of actions on PC
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Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective
Not in my experience. You can still do everything as diligently and as manually as you find necessary or useful.

On the other hand, the bar to start exploring something in the first place (quite possibly sloppily, quite possibly containing a lot of bugs) has significantly gone down, and I personally find it amazing.
Thanks for sharing this approach. I gotta say that I’d love to hear more about how/where you are buying this data, and the CashApp story too.
I disagree with you on both fronts.

1. The main underpinning of this article is the analytical theory they come up with independent of their simulation. The fact that it explains a few qubits well is exactly why this is interesting. If you were to scale up their model - a spin-1/2 ising model, you would effectively get a classical magnet, which is obviously well described by classical thermodynamics. It's in limit of small systems that quantum mechanics makes thermodynamics tricky.

2. Their time averaging is just to remove fluctuations in the state, not avoid the measurement problem. They're looking at time averages of the density matrix, which still yields a quantum object that will collapse upon measurement. And as their mathematical model points out, this can be true for arbitrary time averaging windows, the limits just change respectively as smaller time averages allow for larger fluctuations. There's nothing being swept under the rug here.
Are you unaware that there is a "Deepthink (R1)" button right next to the "Search" button on DeepSeek's Chat app. Its been there for some time, even before all the hype regarding R1.
Dude, read the link that you sent.

> We conclude that delays in the obligation and expenditure of DHS's appropriations are programmatic delays, not impoundments. DHS and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) have shown that the use of funds is delayed in order to perform environmental reviews and consult with various stakeholders, as required by law, and determine project funding needs in light of changes that warrant using funds differently than initially planned. As explained below, because the delay here is precipitated by legal requirements,

That's not the same thing as the richest guy in the world going after a refugee charity because a convicted felon and QAnon conspiracy theorist (Flynn) happened to tweet a screenshot of himself searching the government contract database for the word "Lutheran" because for some crazy reason he hates Lutherans or something

Yes, Congress did appropriate some money for the wall, but most of it was entirely at the discretion of the executive. There was a huge court case about it that was rendered moot when Trump lost the election.
We only remember these as Obama lacked the Trump reality distortion field.

[Reporter] President Trump wore a tan suit.
[Trump] Let's retake the Panama Canal.

[Reporter] President Trump ordered a fancy mustard.
[Trump] We're going to invade Greenland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy
I Built an API to Make Regex Readable and Easy to Maintain
I built an open-source API called Readable Regex that lets you do common string manipulation tasks (like validating emails or extracting numbers) with simple API calls, and with no complex regex required! Gemini helped me generate a lot of the code (a lot of which I didn’t want to write yet again from scratch), handle tricky stuff like URL encoding, and even write this article. It was a super cool experience that showed me how AI can make coding faster, easier, and more fun. Read my linked article to learn about my process of development, how to use the API, how to contribute to it, and test it on the client-side app. Seeking feedback to see if this idea is worthwhile to continue working on. I want to validate a fast build and hopefully inspire developers to join in.
What do you think a design would look like for the web and internet where users actually have privacy on it?
From a phylogenetic perspective, whales are fish.

So are we.
Displaying arbitrary colors in Minecraft [video]
for biomedical, it is what your grant stipulates. I.e. I think way back when, K23's paid $98k for 75% time (or maybe 70%) and your institution agreed to pay the rest. Sometimes, they would actually pay you more to try and get close to fair market value, but that is if the department is generous. For famous institutions, like UCLA, or Brigham and Women's, the law of supply and demand is not on your side bc if you don't like the low salary, there's a giant line of wannabes waiting to take your spot.
Hacker News tries to avoid political news in general, but it seems warranted in this case because Musk is a major figure in the tech industry, and also because it appears he’s using a small number of young engineers from his companies to gain access to and control over systems at OPM.
I think NIH does a cost of living adjustment.
To be fair it did work out suprisingly well in the early days, even the really weird comment chains attracted only a small minority of the bizarrely deranged. Probably because back then the median LW commentator was noticeably smarter than the median HN commentator.

Pascal’s mugging was even coined there I believe, but then as it grew… whatever communal anti-derangement protections existed gradually declined.

And it now is more often than not a negative example.
“Markov Decision Process (MDPs)” appears on the first page of the table of contents and is defined on the page indicated there.

The term is also used/linked in the fourth paragraph of the Wikipedia page for Reinforcement Learning.

It’s much more a table-stakes for talking about what problems the field tries to solve term than an exclusive preserve of the deeply immersed term.

It’s a bit like a primer on machine learning using the word “regression” casually a few times before actually defining it. Good editing practice? No. An actual road block to learning? Also no.
Ha ha, that's a great idea!

I love the idea of embedding sensitive topics that ChatGPT and other LLMs will steer clear of, within the context of a coding question.

Have you ever had any candidate laugh?

Any candidates find it offensive?
Yeah, especially the ones colored red, which are also usually on the bottom row.
I don't even understand why you want an AI responding to emails from an interviewer. I have 2-3 template answers I can access with a keystroke.

But yes, I read it the same way. Pretty funny way to respond to a recruiter after they say "no AI please".
More like high school intern mode.
How else are their armies of lawyers supposed to justify their existence? It's the same as having a ton of UX people on staff who have to constantly move buttons around and change color schemes to stay busy.
iOS and Mac also let you do this, for photos, contacts and files.

Apple is also pushing developers toward using native picker components. That way, you don't need to request consent at all, as you only get access to the specific object that the user has picked using a secure system component.
Of course there aren't any that are more valuable.

But take Notion, Asana, Trello. All of them started out.. like a UI around a database. And they're plenty valuable now. More valuable than Oracle, the highest valued DB company? Maybe not, but still very much successful companies. They didn't start out with 500 integrations.

I think Character.ai is already very profitable, and that's a pure wrapper.
Ah, the infamously quoted source of “pulchritudinous”
I mean, that’s obvious, but also incredibly silly if I know it can give me both the answer and the reasoning behind it.

The challenge should be in determining if ChatGPT is correct.
- "Did they not hear him continually say he would impose tariffs on day one?"

I've read that a major bank advised there was a <20% chance of those tariffs actually happening. Polymarket was at 30% a couple days ago.

They assumed he was bluffing.

https://polymarket.com/event/will-trump-impose-large-tariffs... ("Will Trump impose large tariffs in his first 6 months?")
It was a hit job. The mainstream news covering it was eye opening to me. People that never installed a GPU or ran an LLM somehow fully understood the implications of DeepSeek and the future of AI.

It’s a massive con, someone pushed the story because there was something to gain.

Look, rich people know this is the new market (AI). They want to cast a net around it and squeeze maximum profit as it grows (and it will). Scalp at every layer, operate with maximum greed. Peak middle-man.
I've been through a lot of Garmin devices and mine always have battery degradation before the USB port is in any way non-functional. Especially with USB-C on the newest ones, that really shouldn't be happening.
You can't do this, because some users are genuinely offline sometimes.
Yeah, I think that’s traditionally the route when you’re not running with near-real-time constraints. I’m out of practice with DSP/filter math but I think there’s a constraint such that any theoretical filter that doesn’t impact phase must be symmetrical around the time axis such that it requires “knowledge from the future” that’s not available in real time.

EDIT: And I think with the two-pass approach you need to calculate the filter such that you get the desired effect after two applications instead of one.
They put their phone number there because they want you to call it. I say "I saw this position <position name> advertised on LinkedIn and I'm interested, is this still available?"

Last time I did this they told me it is but that they are at late stages of interviewing so I shouldn't bother applying for that one, but they got down my details and had other jobs that matched what I was looking for. Recruiters are sales people and you just reversed cold called them making their job easier. The majority of applications are AI bots and people who don't live in the country the job is listed in. By making a phone call you are up the top of the list of "most likely to be a legitimate applicant".
Refine your way to the Waffle Party
Globals are essential to track state/values of variables in intermediate step, for debug,
I create unique object on globals and store intermediate variables in it, so i can inspect values when something goes wrong, being only one unique object to maintain it will not override any existing vars thus not affecting existing programs
SQL databases are global variables
> but this is being powered by the unreleased o3 model

What makes you believe that?
There's also certificate pinning which is done by basically every modern android app so you often need to modify apk to remove that. Httptoolkit has a good blog on the process: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/frida-certificate-pinning/
The official statement from the White House calls out increased fentanyl production in Canada as the reason - but doesn't say that it's the majority of imports, you're right. The twitter summary says "There is growing production of fentanyl in Canada, and enough fentanyl was seized at the northern border last fiscal year to kill 9.8 million Americans.", though, and that seems like a lot.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-pr...

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1885812342526460184
>If our AI agents can't find a portfolio of original work nearly exactly what we want to hire you for

that'd be a huge issue for most candidates (and basically all top candidates) because "exactly what you want to hire you for" is probably not open source code to begin with.

>If you are one of the 1 in 4000 applications who gets an interview then you're already 70% likely to get an offer and the interview is mostly a formality.

That has not been my experience at all in 2023/2024.
Haha, I love this. Strong opinions strongly held. Obviously you're not wrong, and I'm not arguing against this (mostly because I agree), but I do also think _some_ of the Marvel work can be quite....inspired (not sure thats too strong a stance, hear me out!), mostly around the animated medium. The What If series has been good, and I've loved the Spiderman animations, very similar to the recent TMNT movies. Just want to add the new Transformers animated movie was very enjoyable, which I wasn't expecting. So yeah, the Michael Bay-esque style gets old quickly in real life movies, but it can work really well when animated.

I'm sure alot of this can be traced back to Manga roots.
But internet in Germany is famously spotty and not great, at least compared to our neighbours the French or the Polish.
There’s a famous book on it called Capital by Thomas Picketty. It’s one of the first economic books to approach a subject utilizing a data driven approach. It’s actually published not as a text book but as popular non fiction.

The story is more complicated than just rewarding people for work. You must make them work togetheron public works that don’t directly benefit them. But people usually tend to work together only when they’re paid a salary and this can only happen if there’s a leader and huge incentives for someone to take that leadership role.

The incentive for that leadership role is the ownership of human capital.

It’s the idea of becoming dirt rich is what drives people to do startups and form corporations.
The End of Stanford? (2013)
Pro user. No access like everyone else.

OpenAI is very much in an existential crisis and their poor execution is not helping their cause. Operator or “deep research” should be able to assume the role of a Pro user, run a quick test, and reliably report on whether this is working before the press release right?
I dont know how anyone can question the lack of legality, hell even not question basic reasoning of doing something like this.
I recently had to choose between Django and Ruby on Rails (RoR). I’ve used Django for smaller projects but had never tried RoR. I picked these two because I think single-page applications (SPAs) are often more than what’s needed. After looking into Next.js, I realized I'd have to learn a lot to use it properly, and I didn’t want to dive into that. I just wanted to get started without dealing with complicated tools.

After thinking it over, I decided to give RoR a shot. The framework does a lot for you, which can be frustrating if you’re used to having control over everything. Still, I was surprised by how much I could accomplish in just a few days. The productivity is impressive, especially for startups that need to get things moving quickly.

So if you just want to prove a business idea, your customers don’t care what tools you use. I’d rather pay twice the price to scale in RoR than spend double the time developing a feature. I would earn it back with the additional customers I gain by pushing features faster out the door.
It’s odd to think it reasonable to consider a solution to self inflicted addictions is drugs.

When I say self inflicted, I mean our society. I do think it’s unfortunate (and very unfair) that we have to expend so much energy not to be addicted. It’s such a sad outcome and driven by capitalistic consumerism.

I have a lot of concern for my kids. And I’m disgusted that grown adults are profiting from all of it.
what app?
The usual excuse is politics, but trade seems to be way more and directly relevant to business
I think you're discounting how easy it would be for them to say "it's all Biden's fault", and lots of people will eat it up.
“I suspect…”

There is no need to speculate about Trump’s motives. He said that he wants to annex Canada. I see no reason not to take what he says at face value.
Because sometimes, the journey is not the destination, and people really just want to get somewhere.

It honestly sounds like reprimanding somebody for sitting on the floor for a bit when they're tired, or ordering an Ikea chair, when a woodworking tutorial is right there on Youtube.
And when was this? I can't remember the last time anyone had their phone number publicly displayed on LinkedIn. And now messaging recruiters is a paid feature. The market's only making it more difficult to reach a human.
> I'm surprised this has no comments/interest

Julia is all well and good, but who is hiring for numerical computing roles? Lots of web and ML API plumbing. No real applied math anywhere to be found. I guess math doesn’t make money?
Well by definition the vast majority of comments written, anywhere, cannot be memorable.

Assuming the median reader reads a few tens of thousands comments in a year, only a few hundred would likely stick without being muddled. At best.