skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The doge.gov page doesn't mention salary range, but the previous USDS job page [0] points to the salary tables found at the OPM; here's the one for DC [1].

The USDS page includes this blurb:

> Salaries in government may change every year. For 2024, you may be paid up to $191,900 depending on your experience as well as where you’re located. 2024 General Scheduled Pay Tables can be referenced here.

$191,900 is the max salary found on the OPM page for DC.

[0] https://www.usds.gov/apply

[1] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
Funding startups like it's 1999.
Potentially deanonymizing pseudonymous Youtube accounts sounds pretty bad by itself.
ADHD Stimulants Broke Me
What's the contribution model moving forward? I see the repository is still active, but is it not still under the Eleven's control? How will it evolve when they stop accepting pull requests?
Because crime is bad and I don't have to be nice to those who support criminals doing crimes. If your marketing differentiator vs all the AI recording bot products is that with your product, you can record people without them knowing you are recording them... then your business model is literally to facilitate crime in many jurisdictions, including California.

Let me be clear: if you have a bot capturing audio in a call you have with someone in California, and you do not tell that person you are recording them, then you have committed a felony, even if you are not in California.

And what is it about you that makes you so allergic to me calling this out? I wonder why....

See, I can do that too. How does that feel? We having a good conversation here?
> You can straightforwardly privatize things that can't be allowed to fail.

What are some examples of successfully privatized utilities?
I didn't invest a lot of time in it because when these papers show no practical applications I always assume that the constant factors are too high. Especially when there's also no specific values of the constant factors presented. It's still somewhere back in my mind to implement it one day to figure out the nitty gritty details.
The market slid, so yes it appears to be unexpected.
This is a great point and I did not really think of this in the above statement.

It may work kind of how employment works, where Google can afford to pay more than a company that cannot afford a 10k bounty.

Google paying a 10k bounty is the equivalent of the bottom 10% of earners in the US paying a 6th(napkin math) of a soon to be discontinued penny.

Regardless, you are correct that the calculation is not obvious, unlike how I presented it. Preferably, things like multiple million character titles are handled correctly and no bounty is paid at all. I expect a smaller company to have an easier time here as well, lessening the financial burden.
they don't "exist by default" or without reason
They’re non-deterministic and YMMV by design. No one can answer that question. It might save you a hundred million with some genius optimization it lucked into or, more likely, it’ll give you a seemingly equivalent query that actually returns subtly different results (easy to do with query optimizations when eg you rely on inherent/default sort order for joins with groups).
The guy is a psychopath, which is probably also why he's so good at doing business. He just doesn't care about other people's feelings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace

> Hare further claims that the prevalence of psychopaths is higher in the business world than in the general population.
> Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list.

I think it's pretty cool we're hearing from more voices though.
To clarify, I'm not suggesting selling the exploit. I'm suggesting selling MrBeast, PewDiePie, Blackpink, Sony Music, etc.'s Youtube email addresses. To phishing rings.

Those may be non-public email addresses (admin/billing emails), so the phishing potential is higher than emailing prteam@mrbeast.com (or whatever).
Standard in the sense of "a non-magical CLI tool that wraps a platform's HTTP API," not standard in the sense of "used by a majority of users."
We all fuck things up. Life is really hard and complicated.

It wasn’t a character test. That’s a narrative that you are telling yourself. It was a thing that happened. In the past. Same thing with “it shouldn’t take 3 years to get over this”. Says who? It takes what it takes.

Our life is a garden, we can only tend it as best we can. The plants grow how they grow.

Let yourself grieve as you let go of old narratives and rediscover yourself and your life in each moment.

For me, narratives like this were an attempt at being a “good person” who “deserved to be loved”. I’ve slowly and painfully learned that isn’t how it works. We are all worthy of love. Love isn’t earned, it is a gift that we give and receive. I’m learning how to receive it, most importantly from myself. It’s the hardest and most beautiful thing.

I offer these words in the hope that they are helpful and to share things I’ve learned. Take them if they are, forget them if they are not.

Sending love and wishing you the best. I’ve been there. It’s hard. But time will pass, things will change, and it gets better.
vance quote from 2021 -

> Vance said that if Trump became president again, "I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"[14][49]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
> and the price of any copyrighted good is bounded by the cost of transferring it over the network

It sure has worked out pretty much like this for music. The cost is not exactly zero, but pretty close to that.
> This is why these connectors have equal number of grounds, so they have an ideal shortest path and balanced return current path.

These connectors have an equal number of grounds and 12v because the same current flows on both sides, and the required current justifies at least 6 wires at the specified current.

Pci-e 8-pin power is a bit weird, because it's 3 12v and essentially 5 grounds; but that's because it's pci-e 6 pin and a promise that the power supply makers know what they're doing... The extra 2 grounds signal that the PSU designers are aware of the higher current limit, even though the wiring specifications are the same.
Tested in the article:

miniF2F: https://github.com/openai/miniF2F

PutnamBench: https://github.com/trishullab/PutnamBench

..

FrontierMath: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04872v1
Postmark basic pricing goes up 50% on May 13, 2025
Show HN: I built a simple personal finance tool
DeaDBeeF has been my goto for a while now because it's the only linux music player with the extremely specific feature I used in winamp:

enqueue is an arbitrary list so you can have a playlist, leave it in order and/but/then play a song multiple times in a row. everyone else it's a toggle so you enqueue a song and then enqueue again and it removes it; if you want to listen to a song multiple times before moving on you have to add it to the actual playlist multiple times and I do not want to do that.

literally the only important feature to me in a music player.
> I think multiple rapid use unnecessarily increases the low-ish risk of psychosis.

Not that I disagree, but the 200ug dose is generally considered safe in a clinical setting, and most doses administered were smaller. Assuming individuals were screened for mental health risks before entering the study I don't think the risk was significantly elevated because of the dosing rate.
Sure but that's a much more solvable problem!
Is the JetKVM more secure than the NanoKVM? [video]
I've used them off and on for basic stuff like "tell me what this query does". They're usually pretty good at that. Sometimes it will make suggestions that are meaningful improvements, most of the time not. Unless you specifically ask about something like "would this be better done with a left join lateral/correlated subquery?" But you kinda have to already know what you're going for and then it can be helpful.
I think a simple way to think of it is: how much would an adversarial nation state buy this exploit for?

I just don't think Russia would be willing to pay $100,000 to get Mr. Beast's email address, even if that sounds tempting to you.
Sure. From the employers perspective, I get the appeal of references.

As a candidate I find them to be a huge overstep and will almost never provide them.

No, I’m sorry. I’m not going to pester my friends and colleagues to “hop on a quick call” or fill out a 2 page survey every time I interview somewhere.

Quite frankly, I really don’t need or want my friends to be intimately involved in my job search.

This poor guy had to have all his references book a call, only for them to all be notified shortly after that they weren’t needed any more, because he flunked the interview.
I will wait for the Supreme court decision to clarify this.

What DOGE is doing is uncovering waste and running PR campaign, they do it for few more weeks, and Congress will be unable to reject DOGE's proposed cuts to federal agencies - because taxpayers are getting more and more angry at what kind of waste is being uncovered
Agreed. I am not saying NPM is better, just that it side steps dependency resolution problems through its runtime.

(I do not want 20 copies of the same library in my process)
Over Christmas, I built a simple tool to track my income and expenses. I don’t need anything elaborate, and it suits my own needs well.

One side effect – I’ve learned – of seeing your income on colorful charts somehow wants to make it move UP by reducing expenses and finding additional income.

What would you add/remove? Maybe AI expense analysis based on uploaded bank statement?
The title lis little misleading: "Note that the base character does not need to be an emoji – the treatment of variation selectors is the same with regular characters. It’s just more fun with emoji."

Using this approach with non-emoji characters makes it more stealth and even more disturbing.
honest question: does anybody know a good book/tutorial/source/whatever on becoming a postgresql DBA ?

most of the material i see is written for people that want to write applications that work with postgresql, not on how to proficiently manage postgresql itself.
This is not addressing the point? That largely there is no financial reward equivalent for the public sector money here. Consider, you claim that NASA completely fumbled. This despite us having massive public reward in terms of space tech such as GPS.
>with someone who actually cares about you in a setting you control for self-exploration

Yeah I've never tried any psychedelic. I once had a girl offer to 'trip sit' me but honestly, I was too worried about old traumas coming up. I liked her and I did not want her to see that.
As the other commenter pointed out, Zapier already has 7k+ apps that can be connected to. Zapier has already figured out the "hard parts" connecting to other apps, which are things like authentication, getting APIs to return standardized schemas, and most importantly business relationships with other companies so that if things need changing, we can reach out. We also have tested and proven infrastructure that can handle massive scale.

I definitely agree that agents are very early days - as for the "ultimate agent" it feels like everything is moving towards them being a sort of co-worker, if that makes sense. I think handling human-in-the-loop scenarios nicely is going to be vital to an agent actually being useful. i.e. you clock in in the morning and check out all the stuff your agent did overnight and can approve/change/reject tasks. There's a ton of healthy competition in the space, so in a year or two we'll all have a much better idea of where the tech is going.
Ah, you know what, I misunderstood the situation: it got moved to an archived copy of the past version of whitehouse.gov: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1i7m431/whitehouse_pr...
So in other words, Red Hat does not freely license their patents, they say "you are free as long as you don't come after us." Which is exactly the system 99% of companies follow, just more formally stated. Yet you berated the poor guy from Pebble for even obtaining the patent he did??
As someone who's done most of the substances listed in the article; none of this matters.

First of all, you can't take 16 people with the drug-taking profiles listed and reliably account for their drug and alcohol intake. 100% of their sample came into the lab as drug seeking individuals. Expecting them to only take drugs under your supervision is a fairy tale. Expecting them to tell the truth about their alcohol intake is also a fairy tale. I'm not trying to be incendiary, I am speaking from experience as a recovering alcoholic with 5 years sobriety.

Second of all, 10 day spacing between doses is insane, and dangerous. Having done this particular drug many times, I can tell you that it takes at least 2 days to feel "normal". And by that, I mean "as normal as you're ever going to feel." You see, LSD changes you... forever. Each time I took LSD I only ever "came down" 99.5%. That other 0.5% stays with you for years, if not forever. You never fully "come down" all the way. You're always just a little "less" than you were before.

Thirdly; this particular drug is not just mind altering, it is life altering. It unlocks things in your mind that permanently change your perception. I don't know anyone who's taken this drug who disagrees with this statement. This permanent altering of your consciousness is literally the thing you pay for and hope to receive.

Honestly science will probably never get LSD right. In order to do so the scientists would need to experience LSD first hand, several times before they could reasonably ever begin planning such an experiment. "You just don't know what you don't know."
I heard it worked even better than git-absorb, is that true?
Congress Trade: Multiple Politicians Buy Palantir Stock
Pocket Revolutions
I'd add hemlock in there in too. Both are plants you'll see in parks in town. A toddler died here a few years ago because his parent allowed him to play in the big plants with the pretty white flowers. They don't look dangerous and don't have to be eaten to be deadly. Breathing too much pollen is enough, especially for a child.

I'm pretty confident with berries as I've got plenty of experience, but I don't mess with wild carrot or even elderberry as I don't feel I have the knowledge at this point to make it worth the risk. There are just too many lookalikes.
This is circular reasoning -- a tautology.
Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected
Just you wait until AI starts calling human output to be slop.
You don‘t need to sell the vulnerability to them, or even tell them the vulnerability is there. Just set up an API and bill them by the query.
This is trying to give users all the benefits of being cloud connected (sync, collaboration, etc) without the requirement of always being connected.
Shoup passed away on February 6:

* https://parkingreform.org/donald-shoup/

* https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/02/08/streetsblog-mourns-th...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004881

His book:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking

* EconTalk podcast episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sgmw3jQcyc
I can't possibly explain it any better than "I'm curious, and at hackernews we are here to discuss & understand how things work"
They're training in the same terrain where they'd be required to operate if their mission was to evacuate Washington VIPs in the event of an emergency.
> To rephrase: are these just array indexes, then? I mean I presume it's something cleverer than just "let's bit-pack our indexes to save space".

The pointers can be dereferenced into an array index (when given the key), but they are smaller in size than a "bit-packed index", although I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. If you want to to represent an index into an array of size `n` there's no representation where all indexes take less than log(n). You can make some of them smaller, but then you make other bigger (like in UTF-8). The Tiny Pointers are all smaller than log(n) (and some of them would be exactly equal, despite representing different indexes!), but the only way of determining the actual index is to dereference it together with original key that was used to create it.
Seems like this over-indexes on a small handful of conferences (I had never heard of GOTO before this). It would be interesting to better understand the methodology here, particularly around discovering talks on YouTube.
Not in all libertarian philosophies.

Most that I'm aware of take a dim view on government police forces but don't really take a dim view on enforcement apparatuses against the government. An authoritarian regime needs a strong police force to properly function.

For example, I don't think I've ever seen a Libertarian complain about the inspectors general (except maybe for strict anarchists).
in a documentary we watched, made by Disney, it seemed there's extensive infrastructure on a lower level in the Orlando DisneyWorld. Maybe that's part of the reason it's not obvious.
I disagree, it is unnecessarily verbose and seems to revolve around engagement.
Speechify is pretty good. You gotta pay to get the most out of it, but I use it enough to justify it. (Mostly for an egregiously long serial novel.) Sometimes there's jank, but the support and dev teams are super responsive.
Linus's talk is on there twice. If you add up the view counts, it should be much higher.
Fast Case Conversion (2021)
I don't understand why recycling plastics is desirable. Plastics are made from hydrocarbons, right? So putting them in the ground amounts to carbon sequestration, which is good? What am I missing?
Disney 'hides' unsightly objects in its parks using specially developed paint

I mean... yeah. All paint is specially developed to be a specific color. That's kinda the whole point of paint!

I love me some applied psychology in design spaces, and I'm glad you posted this, but in general I'm dubious of how much this instance in particular is supported by Disney hysteria.
GPS enabled US public corporations like Garmin, TomTom, Google (via google maps), all businesses (via google maps), Apple via iPhone, and contributed enormous economic benefits in terms of jobs, taxes, employment, GDP, etc.

This is exactly how public funding into basic research should benefit the country
Wild corn relatives, however, just look like most other grass.
Alarms, Photos, Siri, Books..
> Nor are minimum parking requirements even needed: developers have the knowledge and incentives to provide the appropriate amount of off-street parking. If a developer builds too little parking, she will struggle to attract tenants and command lower rents.

This isn't entirely true. In cities where parking requirements are eliminated, many new businesses move into locations that would have previously been illegal, showing that many commercial tenants view parking requirements as excessive.

In my city, judging by public comment, support for parking requirements comes not from business owners or developers but from voters who fear a lack of parking at the businesses they frequent and who fear that parking for nearby businesses or apartment buildings will overflow into their neighborhood (the horror.)
And while it's not public, jj has a piper backend, so that folks at Google can use jj

(This is also why I have some confidence that jj truly is backend agnostic, it has two real backends already.)
This is cute but unnecessary - Unicode includes a massive range called PUA: the private use area. The codes in this range aren’t mapped to anything (and won’t be mapped to anything) and are for internal/custom use, not to be passed to external systems (for example, we use them in fish-shell to safely parse tokens into a string, turning an unescaped special character into just another Unicode code point in the string, but in the PUA area, then intercept that later in the pipeline).

You’re not supposed to expose them outside your api boundary but when you encounter them you are prescribed to pass them through as-is, and that’s what most systems and libraries do. It’s a clear potential exfiltration avenue, but given that most sane developers don’t know much more about Unicode other than “always use Unicode to avoid internationalization issues”, it’s often left wide open.
I use vim. It seems like `:set binary enc=latin1` works, though I don't understand why the latin1 part is required.
Cursor is for programmers. Ultimately, you decide what the code should be.

v0/lovable/a0 will replace drag-and-drop "no-code" tools for non-programmers who don't care about code and only decide what the product should do. The tool will likely also manage hosting, either directly or through service providers, to ensure a seamless e2e experience, automatically fix runtime issues etc.

The question remains, will there be a need for Cursor and programmers in the future at all.
I always knock on the door that's on the outside of that Alice in Wonderland animatronic...
Anduril / Palmer Taking over US Army IVAS Program
> (maybe even Windows might ship with Python nowadays?)

Windows doesn't ship with Python, but it does have a silly thing where if you type python in a command shell of your choice it will try to auto-install python. (When it works it is kind of magic, when it doesn't work it's a pain to debug the PATH problem.)

It's not exactly a one-liner, but in an off-the-shelf Windows install it is a short script to create a simple static file web server inside PowerShell.

Also there are npm and deno packages/CLIs that are easy to install/run for one-liners if you want to install something more "web native" than Python. `npx http-server` is an easy one-liner with any recent Node install.
I guess it's Collin + son. Conceivably Collin's + son.
The Curse of Being Mediocre
Still using wine+foobar2000 as my music player here. The only issue I can think of is sometimes when when turning my screens off and back on, the UI might be glitched and need a restart.
Show HN: Fluvio 38.8x faster than Kafka
They can be useful. I just recently used Claude to make a query 10x faster, though I did have to back-and-forth a bit, so you do still need to know what you're doing.
Sure, the sensors collecting the altitude data might have been faulty, but the helicopter pilot was reportedly 50% higher than was allowed. You would think that an experienced helicopter pilot would be able to gauge that they were a full 50% above the allowed limit. From the reported information, I'm not sure there is reason to believe that it was much more complicated than altitude misjudgement on the part of the helicopter pilot, unless they were somehow unaware of the allowed limits in that airspace.
Correct and as noted in the corresponding Wikipedia article “the term came into wider recognition during … early 2020s”[0] and was used against anybody who didn’t agree with the “official” information about the pandemic and vaccines. Today we know that fact checkers applied disinformation when they labelled sources as misinformation.

Fact checkers have been a tool to silence the voices they don’t like. People realised that quite quickly and if not today they know for sure.

Please don’t get me wrong fact checkers have been/are a tool to control the narrative and the nobility you may see in them was never really there.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation
No wonder he idolizes Steve Jobs, another famous yeller.
RIP strangeloop </3
LSTM: The Comeback Story? [video]
There is nothing interesting going on at pycon, usually. Most language-specific conferences tend to be pretty boring imho.
Congratulations on the launch. Exciting times ahead !!
It's a prominent checkbox in the Safari developer settings to enable this.
I really don’t understand the flagging rules. Is anyone able to explain why this post was flagged?
i use all of them, each one is a separate tool.