skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on how you come in. I was in a position where I came around 2012 with some self taught skills and managed to start out with a 50-60 hour grind but 70k wage and climb slowly into the 250+ range in the ~decade since.

However, I location-optimized. I started in rural Ohio ~2hrs from Detroit, and ended up in New York City after some bouncing to smaller tech cities climbing the ladder. But I think my hourly rate comes out pretty great, even historically to my career beginning, especially for a non-college-grad.
I also heard tell about underpants gnomes that steal your underpants at night. A lot of people are saying it. Could be anywhere from 1 million to 10 million pairs per year, nobody knows, but we're looking into it.
or closed forever
This is great! Similar to the makertool at www.fliposcope.com which is a DIY hand-cranked movie machine.
If you post about an opinion against female athletes competing against trans women will that put you on the Nazi list?
Here's the thing: I see management at software companies salivating with the idea of replacing developers with AI, but where is the value add? Why would companies (especially eneterprise) pay them? for their sales teams or executives? If AI takes over customers can just do it themselves with the in-house IT teams, so developers are likely to be the last impacted if this ever happens.
From the article:

> Salvadorans, with the exception of a few, never embraced Bukele’s initiative, who enjoys enormous popularity for his war against gangs, which dropped homicides to historic lows in El Salvador. A recent survey by the Central American University (UCA) revealed that 92% of Salvadorans did not use bitcoin in their transactions in 2024.

I would say this points to an actual failed experiment, if true.
Outstanding! Congratulations on writing such a wonderful project!

I have a suggestion regarding the "How It Works" section. When reading it, I initially thought you had implemented your TCP/IP stack from scratch. Later, I discovered through the comments that you're using gVisor. Perhaps you might consider mentioning this explicitly in the documentation?

As an interesting side note, gVisor's netstack is also used in the Tailscale client, enabling features like connecting a machine to multiple tailnets without requiring special privileges.
They literally removed the term "moneda de curso legal", which translates as "legal tender", from Article 5.

https://x.com/monicataher/status/1884971499129610322
Private enterprises are optimized for survival and fitness.

Bureaucratic agencies are optimized for more bureaucracy.
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that just makes the panics unrecoverable. It doesn't statically guarantee no panics.
You are already wrong - hospital care is impacted, schools are/were shutdown, etc. I think you should ask yourself why you are so wrong and unaware on such basic things, and why you do not value them as much as the people reliant on them.
“The reform eliminated the word “currency” when referring to bitcoin, but says it is “legal tender.” Despite the lack of clarity, it lifts, as required by the IMF, the obligation to accept it in transactions or debt payments, a key condition for it to be “legal tender,””

Edit to add a quote from your preferred link:

“Another change makes using bitcoin entirely voluntary. (Previously, the law mandated that businesses accept bitcoin for any goods or services they provided.) Additionally, bitcoin can no longer be used to pay taxes or settle government debts.”

If I can't pay my taxes with a token of economic exchange, and people aren't required to accept my tokens of economic exchange, the only remaining sense I can make of it being “legal tender” is that it is not illegal to use it, but that's not what “legal tender” means.
I am thinking about becoming a personal trainer, with a specialty in fixing the hunched shoulders of other recovering software devs. Tech seems desperate to escape the human body, but it's been pretty gratifying to me to actually use it.
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You and I know this isn't how this works.

The moment the government wants to punish someone over this they will grab some random kid that's barely done anything and threaten them with the full 20 years to serve as an example to others.
That would be "Running Man" Hawley who was recorded scurrying like a rat through the House while his buddies were trying to overturn the election.
The problem is that the optimistic approach requires that there's enough left of the government in order to use legal means to stop the catastrophe. I really really hope there will be, but right now I'm worried that's a losing proposition.
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While he’s at it, he should also make cryptography and math illegal too.
What exercises do you recommend?
Is it his business if it’s for customer support?
Some trades are more physically demanding on the body. I was thinking more along the lines of any field that requires a gov't license like nurse/counselor/barber/pharmacist/CPA/lawyer/administrator/teacher/air traffic controller/operator of some heavy machinery.
It’s weird that caring about people impacted by the training of a hobby NN model feels anachronistic. Well those people were ALL the way at the other end of the internet tube, and it was only a game so their time doesn’t really matter, and think about how many people “weren’t” impacted!

It seems like tech has gotten so dang self-absorbed.
I get around it by working on things for me and me alone and publishing them as an afterthought for anyone that would seek them out. I make the tool that I want to use and make the game that I want to play. This has had way better reception than I expected (but not monetarily since I usually end up publishing this sort of thing with a non-license that says something like "feel free to steal this code in its entirety if you wish") and it works out great since when things get no reception I don't care and when they do it's always exceeding my own expectations, plus I'll always walk away from it with something for me that I wanted out of it regardless of reception.
Seems pretty misleading for the screenshot to leave out the text that suggested fired government employees should pay them a visit.
As a dual citizen that lived in Canada from 2004-2022, I do hear where you are coming from. I love Canada. I adopted it as my home and lived there until I just couldn't any more.

We're all afraid of the future. That's normal for most people. I have rarely in my career ever bothered with certifications, yet I'm collecting them like a hobby this year.

I don't mean to read in to your comment, but I offer an ear if you want to reach out. There is an email on my HN profile.
The debate over the 14th amendment covered children of foreign countries.

> Mr. Cowan: I am really desirous to have a legal definition of “citizenship of the United States.” What does it mean? ... Is the child of the Chinese immigrant in California a citizen? Is the child of a Gypsy born in Pennsylvania a citizen? ... If the mere fact of being born in the country confers that right, then they will have it; and I think it will be mischievous. ...

> Mr. Conness: If my friend from Pennsylvania, who professes to know all about Gypsies and little about Chinese, knew as much of the Chinese and their habits as he professes to do of the Gypsies ... he would not be alarmed in our behalf because of the operation of the [proposed amendment] ... so far as it involves the Chinese and us. The proposition before us ... relates simply in that respect to the children begotten of Chinese parents in California, and it is proposed to declare that they shall be citizens.

It is very hard to look at the debates and argue it was just done for ex-slaves and has no other effect given they very clearly debate the effect.
Alcohol isn’t scheduled, benzos aren’t schedule 1, doesn’t mean you can be strung out on them while driving. I can write a prescription for all, doesn’t mean shit.
Rescheduling doesn’t make you a protected class, a trucking company isn’t obligated to accept that liability.
Not sure it’s even worth speculating on a bill that’s merely been proposed. This one sounds DOA. But yeah TikTok ban was a very bad precedent, mostly because it was based on speculative risks, not hard proof of existing behaviour (TikTok not engaging didn't help at all either). Regardless of the merits I too hope it doesn’t have a ripple effect. National security is such a huge brush you could paint anything you want.
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This concept (Congress failing) gets repeatedly stated in many contexts without sufficient pushback. It should be considered whether perhaps for organization so large its functioning quite reasonably. Much of the current outrage has been manufactured via a long game of propaganda since at least the Reagan era but probably longer.
That would disincentive this type of research, for example:

"DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss" (2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42868271

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891042

TIL about BBQ: Bias Benchmark for QA

"BBQ: A Hand-Built Bias Benchmark for Question Answering" (2021)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08193
I think the charitable interpretation is that parent-poster meant it like how cereal boxes have featured famous athletes, as opposed to brand mascots.

For example, Frosted Flakes has "Tony the Tiger", but he is widely understood to be a fictional tiger, rather than an endorsement by a real human who got famous for wearing a tiger-suit.
Im all for more models. Go for it
these people are majestically stupid
Went from 25 years in this industry, started out writing games in QBasic at 10 (in 1992-ish) and did just about anything in Java, C/++, Python, Javascript.

Just finished framing my own house (1 man build) including foundation starting last summer. I have to put my shingles on next but we're in the middle of an atmospheric river right now. I still have a lot more to go, but I think I'm at 50% now.

I hope to break into the construction game after I finish it since I'll be dead broke after.
Seems a bit dodgy to refer to state assets as if they were the personal possessions of Bukele in the way which that site does.
No one cares about protests even if they happen. Remember all the women's march / pussy hat protests? What a great instagram opportunity that was. They are chances for people to cosplay as "members of the resistance" as they live their day to day lives as urban PMC drones.
The new model SS will be a great success....
Wealthy generally suffer less. Sometimes they may even thrive with new arbitrage opportunities.
Dems have not held power in the US since at least Reagan, Full Stop.

"51" senators (when at least two aren't even democrats and one routinely votes against the party for his literal coal lobbyist cronies) isn't Power.

The one time Democrats held some power for about FIFTY DAYS, we got the ACA. We could have gotten medicare for all but a "Democratic" senator refused. Medicare for all has been on and off the Democrat platform since before RFK got got.

That so many "liberals" and "leftists" insist the democratic party hasn't done anything despite fifty years of being explicitly voted away from the reigns of power is part of the problem.

Go look at the coalition FDR had if you want to know what it takes to push Progressive policy in the US system.
Thank you. I think that’s the second time someone has recommended that to me on here! I will add to my Amazon list now :)
Cause that is exactly what Trump did last time he was president, right?
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They likely can't enforce it against the people they "need" to, but that won't stop it from stifling innovation.

It mirrors what we saw in other industries that they basically had zero effective enforcement for, such as Cannabis sale and usage. It did not stop the sale or usage of Cannabis at all, it was very common for people to purchase and consume while illegal. But, it was "effective" at ensuring if anyone who wanted to explore that space or improve it essentially had to be a criminal and market forces were absent or distorted at best.

Fast forward and look at areas that have passed recreational sale and usage laws and they are flourishing in this respect. They have innovated the market, reduced cost, created a safer and better product, etc. In every measurable way it has improved the situation for everyone involved, including people who are basically uninvolved but benefit from the massive tax revenue that often gets redirected to schools and other social programs.

Banning DeepSeek and any other model ensures that when a kid comes up with something cool that using one of those models, he has to either make sure to keep it on a secret GitLab account or run `sed s/deepseek/muricahai/i *.py` before he shares it anywhere that might come back to him.
Yup, exactly. Hell, even if Trump were to die of a heart attack tomorrow, Vance would happily continue the cureent trajectory, and he might even be better at doing so.
Depositing trash bags on the street is legal?
For once that doesn’t seem overly broad. Pretty much agree with all of the list
Expensive?? Really? One of the cheapest services around.

$0.0000002 per configuration request
We had two options, and we chose the greater evil. We absolutely deserve what's coming.
Higher relative debt = higher relative interest payments.

Go high enough, interest payments consume the entire federal budget. There is no way out except revenue growth (infeasible without breakthrough productivity improvements), taxation, and printing money (equivalent to taxation). Before that point, other bad things happen such as creditors losing faith in the government, making debt more expensive and destabilizing the dollar's position as global reserve currency.

Over the last few decades, debt has continued to rise as a percentage of the federal budget, and appears that trend will continue without drastic action.
“Another change makes using bitcoin entirely voluntary. (Previously, the law mandated that businesses accept bitcoin for any goods or services they provided.) Additionally, bitcoin can no longer be used to pay taxes or settle government debts.”

--https://reason.com/2025/02/03/el-salvador-walks-back-its-bit...

Sounds pretty failed to me.
I still remember getting mocked because "lighting network is coming"...8 years ago. Still doesn't work.

It's not just expensive, it's difficult, slow, error-prone and offers 0 convenience over standard means of payments.
I understand your sentiment as a fellow US citizen; it can get annoying how so many people globally take part in debates about our society. To be fair, it's not like we in the U.S. shouldn't be open to hearing ideas from others about how we could run our government better. God knows there's plenty of room for improvement. And if I were to go to another country and see things that don't make sense to me, I'd understand they aren't going to just change anything immediately on my account, but I'd also appreciate having my thoughts considered by the people there.

His problem is more that he seems to believe his (and all others') country's ID system is somehow impervious to abuse (despite being imperfect by his own admission). The more centralized things are, the less you have to hack to do a takeover. The less centralized things are, the easier it is to accumulate supporting evidence for a takeover. It's a necessarily complicated system that has certain holes, and the main thing that would've helped in this case was more benefit of the doubt for the person who was up against a lot of documentation.
Is this just based on hypothetical scenario they sat in a room coming up with or has such a thing been tried and harmed people?
Clozure Common Lisp is excellent. It generates fast code and small images.

I used Clozure Common Lisp for the Tankan kanji learning program, which uses a browser interface to a service application, the latter being written in CCL.

I used MS Visual C++ to make the system notification are ("tray") icon program to control the service.

The licensing back-end runs on CLISP as a CGI interface, and the same server-side program also serves as an administrative command-line utility, where I can manipulate the the license database.
I personally think there’s far more sites for news and politics. I’d prefer HN stick to being tech focused.
Do pro-bitcoin people still talk about goals of bitcoin being a currency that people use daily?

I don't follow it closely, but that idea seems to have faded and now it's just an asset to buy and hold while it magically goes up forever.
The standard library has a significant amount of code that panics, so a `no_panic` crate attribute would currently only work for crates that don't depend on the standard library. I imagine most interesting crates depend on the standard library.
This was basically Open Society Foundations but using taxpayer funds.. of course leftist groups will complain, this is expected.
Don't forget the constraints: are you willing to bullshit people a bit to get them incited, because you know it'll be a good, win-win deal for both sides, but they're dismissing it prematurely? What if you're not exactly sure if it'll be a win-win for them? Are you willing to still bullshit them a bit, assuming they're not idiots and they'll do the math on their end - so what you're doing is just forcing them to consider your proposal seriously? Are you okay to keep up the pressure, transfer all responsibility for the choice to your customers? Are you willing to lie?

I'm reluctant to try and follow the gradient because I'm convinced it quickly leads to abandoning the ethical constraints, and I don't want to become such a person.
I'm a junior undergraduate student Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and I'm looking for summer internships. I have an interest in systems programming and machine learning.

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this article, though appearing pretty machine translated, points out that the law removes the obligation for anyone to accept Bitcoin as payment of a debt, while not (for some reason) removing the "legal tender" language -- which is a complete contradiction.

This makes as much sense as saying that Walmart has no obligation to accept Visa cards anymore, but that they're still a "valid method of payment at Walmart" -- except of course that "Legal Tender" has an explicit legal definition (apparently even in El Salvador).

This sounds like a really badly written piece of legislation. Perhaps there are shady dealings going on where someone powerful stands to lose a lot of money (or BTC) triggered by "if it ceases to be Legal Tender", but also apparently pressure was too great to abolish that legal tender status in practice, so this ridiculously-written law was passed to attempt to have it both ways.
I'm just amused that when Chinese products were hurting the average manufacturer in US, and the majority of goods on Amazon, Walmart, Temu, Shein are "Made in China" it is good and capitalism. When Hollywood movies or music are pirated- its just kids having fun. But dare you try to hurt tech/software companies investments or revenue streams, and politicians suddenly get patriotic and want to send you to jail for 20 years!
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Same here in Oregon. My bins are old (at least 16 years) and same as when I moved in.

I would think that is the truck was too strong, that could be adjusted. Or if city bought weak bins, they could be replaced by proper ones.
Definitely. One of the biggest moments of our lifetimes, directly affecting almost every person on this message board, involving high profile “tech” people, curiously absent from any discussion on the main page.

I don’t buy the “ we don’t talk politics here ” argument. This directly intersects the tech world on multiple levels
I want to echo some of my sibling comments… none of us believe that GOOD software engineering is going anywhere soon.

If you can pass a fizz-buzz interview screen, that’s a different story.

I would also suggest creating content about to interests. Live coding or explanatory videos that could be useful to somebody else, attract attention to you, and prove you are no AI-fraud if they actually hire you.

Depending on your skill, consulting offers will (probably) come your way without much marketing effort.
Same as happened to Twitter?
It's good to see this "adjustment" scam is getting more mainstream coverage. I remember reading about this over a decade ago. The more I looked under the covers of climate science, the more evident it became that it's not a science at all and just another government propaganda campaign. Downloading and reading the climate gate emails should be enough to disabuse anybody of the notion that these folks have even an ounce of integrity.
Customers use currencies if it lets them buy stuff. Shops accept currencies if people come and want to buy stuff with that currency. In touristy places, it's common to see people list their prices using currencies from common originating countries, regardless of the legal currency in that country.

Any new thing needs to be better than the current thing at least in one domain, if it wants to grow users. Fiat currencies work so well, that the only niches cryptocurrencies can find is crimes really, avoiding financial sanctions, etc.

Like China for example bans their citizens to trade the chinese currency for foreign currency (above small limits). Then buying bitcoin domestically makes sense if they don't trust the chinese government to keep their own currency valuable.

Of course, all the exchanges operating in countries where there is reasonable laws require KYC to be in place. Cryptocurrencies are also in many ways more trackable than non-crypto currencies. So for crime it makes no real sense to use most crypto currencies.
I'm also seeing this on Android Chrome. When I opened the page on my Linux desktop, I also saw the crashes (though they only affected the godbolt iframes).

Note that on Android process separation is not usually as good, so a crashing iframe can bring down the whole page.
For systems where correctness is actually important, not just a nice-to-have (in most systems, it's nice-to-have,) we have had an increasing number of options over the years.

From tools like "spin" and "tla+" to proof assistants like Coq to full languages like Idris and Agda.

Some of the stronger-typed languages already give us some of those benefits (Haskell, OCaml) and with restricted effects (like Haskell) we can even make the compiler do much of this work without it leaking into other parts of the program if we don't want it to.
If Direct File takes away too much revenue from Intuit by handling all of the simple cases, then people with more complex taxes will have to pay quite a bit for their tax software. It might not even make sense to continue producing it. Or at least that could be what Intuit lobbyists are furiously telling republican congressmen.
Thanks for the explanation. That helps complete the picture another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42921799) started about “funny machines”. I do believe the measures they’ve taken to protect against malicious payloads are going to be tested rather relentlessly.
Abstaining from voting means "I am ok with whatever the rest of you decide". While that's not an active vote in favor, it's close enough.

I don't care about non-voters. If they don't care enough to vote, they're not worth considering when we try to assign "blame" for the current situation.

The American public voted for this, full stop.