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Crisis Text Line, Inc. | Senior Software Engineer - Full Stackr | New York, USA | Onsite / Remote | 115,192 - 168,000 USD / year | Full-Time

Tech used: AWS, CI/CD, Datadog, Grafana, GraphQL, Support, JavaScript, React

We are a mission-driven company, dedicated to making an impact on millions of users seeking help and support in moments of crisis. Our software engineers develop next-generation data platforms that transform how individuals connect with volunteer crisis counselors and clinical staff. We need versatile engineers who display leadership qualities and a readiness to tackle new problems across the full stack as we advance our technology. Our teams work on scalability, storage solutions, applications, and new features for users worldwide.

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Yet these aren't offsets from an address, that is, array indexes?
There's a photo of the V2 launching from USS Midway on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_Sandy_and_Pushover
Very excited about the fork's improvements given the lack of responsiveness in core repo. I've hit some of these bugs including the registry issue. Thank you for open sourcing it.

I've used a combination of ProxyCommand directive in ssh config + a script it calls w/ the `%h` (host) to unpack what the correct instance-id is (like @galanwe). For the proxycommand, you can embed an `aws ec2-instance-connect send-ssh-public-key` for pushing a key valid for 60s followed by activating the SSM session.

The downside is it adds ~20-30s delay in connection due to the API requests, but if you're making repeated rapid requests to same instance, I recommend looking into ssh's ControlPath, ControlMaster and ControlPersist to keep a longer lived session that's re-used for client re-connections (ref: https://blog.scottlowe.org/2015/12/11/using-ssh-multiplexing...)

[Edit to add that I've hit the registry bug myself]
Very interesting to me that the BDNF effects were present with 5-HT2A blocked. Also interesting to see how much deeper they were at 200ug. Would be interesting to see a much longer temporal profile of the BDNF response. If this is also interesting to you, you might enjoy: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29898390/
Internally yeah
https://thenewstack.io/amexs-faas-uses-webassembly-instead-o...
you are objectively wrong because you dismiss out of hand the possibility that AI will not continue to improve. the heuristics are against you and you have no reasoning or evidence behind your assertion that we have already hit the ceiling. youre arrogant. just confront it already
I gloss over the terror? It is not normal for anyone to start to go over the supposed terrorism (EDIT: terror) of nondescript countries when that topic has not even been brought up.[1] In turn there has not even been a chance for me to gloss it over.

> And it can not all be blamed on imperialism and "other states".

Concerns such as these can apparently be set aside with the mere use of scare quotes. But it is perhaps understandable. Even politically high-ranking Swedish individuals that criticize imperialism can get bodily hurt, as history has shown.

[1] Unless one is supposed to do that as a matter of course when advocating a political ideology like capitalism or socialism.
> I've always assumed links without any tracking information (unique hash, query params, etc) were safe to click(with regards to my privacy). but if this works for links I may need to revise my strategy regarding how to approach links sent to me.

Well, it was never safe, what you see and where the link are pointing at are different things, that's why the actual link is displayed at the bottom left of your browser when you move your mouse over it (or focus it via keyboard)
It’s clumsy UI, and the downward swipe is often mistaken as scrolling.
Companies acquire indefensible patents all the time. They are used in bulk to threaten smaller competitors ("we've got 500 patents in this field, better not bring your product to market"). This is one reason why patents can be terrible for competition.
Prebuilders get priority access and volume discounts, so while it may not be a good value to buy individually, that doesn't necessarily apply to buying it in bulk.
I appreciate how well written and easy to follow this is! That said, I’m not really sure I understand the issue here. It seems like Deepseek is able to suggest things, but acknowledges they’re dangerous and bad and shouldn’t be done. That seems in line with humans, where we can all think about things we could do if we ignored laws/norms but hopefully acknowledge we shouldn’t do those things.

I’m not really sure I see much value in a model pretending it can’t think of a way for an AI to do bad things, when its training obviously gives it that knowledge.
'What would you have us do?': The plastic credits problem
The unusually high amount of drama in NixOS is one of the reasons I have been hesitant to start using it. Jon Ringer (a former contributor) posted a giant video [0] outlining his history with the project and how he left / was forced out (amongst several other key folks). For the record, I don't know how to characterize his exit, only that there was an absolute ton of drama around it that wasn't really related to even any technical aspect.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0FI8Gw1iA
For code editing, usually ligatures are spaced relative to their expanded variant.

E.g., ≠ is as wide as two characters.
I was briefly excited to try this on out-of-print books I find on Google Books, but alas the OCR in Acrobat PRO is super glitchy.

I need to find some AI-assist OCR to fix tons of mistakes like "186o" for 1860 or "gla)" for glad.
So because he wastes our tax money in a way you think is cool, yet is still useless to society, then it’s okay.
My teams work on a mobile app with 20+million lines and tens of thousands non generated lines being added every day. That is not an exaggeration. Cursor has no idea what to even do at that scale.

But even if cursor could understand the app, my other team works on the build pipelines which is another several million LOC projects that are interacting with dozens of services and used by several teams.

Maybe in a few years but currently it is completely untenable for LLM’s to work on these codebases in any meaningful way. And these are not unique, I’ve worked at many fortune 20 companies where the key product is 10 of millions of LOC of mess.

Even for personal projects cursor wrongly edits simple things like the wrong config.yaml, as it is in a different directory. I like it but it has major gaps.
in a world where human labor is worthless, moats and other nonsense will be the last of anyones worries. you can take that to the bank whipper snapper
It's amazing to me all of the fancy new ways eventually evolve into the thing they were trying not to be in the first place. We see this time and time again. I've been around long enough to have seen it in several situations to the point that at the start of the trend someone looks like the old dog refusing to learn a new trick, then eventually people realize they could have saved a lot of time/effort/money by taking the old's advice and experience.
Skimmed this. Is it just me or does the data look a little too perfect?
There’s 100% an active market for this, and I think tptacek is simply wrong on this point (the others are valid)

The likes of Cambridge Analytica didn’t go away, they exist and absolutely go hunting for data like this.

The ability to map between different identifiers and pieces of content on the internet is central to so many things - why do you think adtech tries to join so many datapoints? Let alone things like influence campaigns for political purposes.

I’m not talking about assasination plots, but more mundane data mining. This is why so much effort in the EU has gone into preventing companies from joining data sources across products - that’s embedded in DMA
> How in 2025 music players refuse to (not can't, refuse to) get "Album Artist" right blows my mind

Apple Music on macOS broke album artist (click the artist column a few times) a few releases ago and you now have to resort it on every launch. Maddening. They then added an explicit “sort by album artist” column which… does not work.
Yes, calling out unethical practices makes the world a better place by discouraging unethical practices.
I posit you're unusual in your opinion. I mostly observe people use the climate control knob like a heater knob. If it's cold, the set temperature gets cranked up; if hot it gets cranked down.
I hate how this HN thread is mostly about discussing the amount of bounty, but I'm afraid it's only natural. Most commenters here are working in the software industry and they want to normalize extremely high bounties. It's an extra income source for them. They want higher bug bounties much like they want SWEs to be a highly compensated profession. It's only natural for workers to demand higher pay for their own profession. No amount of rationalization will change that instinct.
If this is really a significant concern for you, are you accounting for the CO2e of the (very significant) difference in energy consumption over the lifetime of the device?

It seems unlikely to me that in a full lifecycle accounting the spinning rust would come out ahead.
No but it’s clearly capitalist pressures in this instance
> But I wouldn't put it past Tesla to release fake vehicle telemetry that supports their case, either.

Perhaps, but there isn't any evidence of this, just speculation from an interested party. This speculation is what the whole premise of the article hinges on, but there is no support provided for it. Instead the article seems to bank on a readership that dislikes Musk so much that they don't engage any critical thinking skills .

The risk of being exposed for lying in court and faking telemetry data does not seem like it would be remotely worth it to win this lawsuit for Tesla.
Related - about a year ago or so, I read about a firmware related problem with some vendors SSDs. It was triggered by some uptime counter reaching (overflowing?) some threshold and the SSD just bricked itself. It’s interesting because you could carefully spread out disks from the same batch across many different servers, but if you deployed & started up all these new servers around the same time, the buggy disks in them later all failed around the same time too, when their time was up…
Out of curiosity, do you object to the existence of services like Cachix, Nixbuild, and Garnix, which also do not have open source backends?
Have you never seen those highway billboards that rotate between three displays?

Advertisers will buy it because the seller can make the physical ad spot N times cheaper by showing N different ads during the day.
That had existed in even in some Android 4 phones from 2013, but you have to turn it on and off all the time and rather clunky.
IIRC you described it at some point as "business performance art", and may I please take this opportunity to thank you for creating this lens from which I have been able to view, understand, and not become infuriated at the last decade of hype-driven startups.

If you need any assistance with your infra stuff I'm happy to help.
i believe that this man just asked you what will happen in 2 years, with ai that is more advanced, not about today and todays limitations. this conversation would seem unimaginable to someone just five years ago. you are refusing to confront whats right in front of you
Except for when they, you know, get banned entirely
India's solar capacity reaches 100 GW as of end-January
It's apparent that Musk has been given a directive by the president to get access to any and all information, and he's getting that access by firing anyone who refuses to give it to him. There's nothing anyone can do to stop that kind of clearance, no one has the authority.
And I can still install a snap on an Ubuntu Core machine by building my own distribution method, but it will be a downgrade from the experience of running "snap install something" that introduced me to it. So nobody does.

Lix (yes, I will mention it again) essentially exists by a large degree because the overlap between the people that control Nix and DetSys is big, even very big if you look at CppNix.
Ask HN: What are you running for .windsurfrules?
Adding the following .windsurfrules file has saved me alot of frustration and time. I'm interested to hear what other Windsurf users are running:

Use uv for package management instead of pip.
When tests pass, and there are significant changes to the codebase, commit changes to git.
Save each user prompt to a file in the prompts directory.

What is .windsurfrules? I got tired of yelling at my Windsurf prompt to "git commit your changes" (like I yell at my kids to brush their teeth each night). Didn't realize my previous prompt fell out of the context window every few code exchanges. It (the AI) calmly informed me that what "Memories" are for. They can alternately be stored in global_rules.md.

What is Windsurf? It's a code assistant similar to Cursor and Devin, available as a VSCode fork for a monthly fee. More info (and a couple of prompts): https://github.com/ichoosetoaccept/awesome-windsurf
Uh, what?

The main usage of GPUs is graphics processing, and it's not even close. That is what Graphics Processing Units are built for. AI is probably the main use of datacenter GPUs today, but even that isn't "almost all" in comparison to the HPC work out there.
no answer. dont hold your breath
The US' military advantage has nothing to do with NATO. Lets make that clear right now. NATO would be just a four letter acronym without the US military.
If their founder was the person with principal control over what goes into CppNix, yes.
> When designing readable interfaces for different vision capabilities, the WCAG guidelines recommend the following contrast ratios

So, they’re recommendations, not facts.

A fact is not a recommendation.

You can cling to this until the cows come home, but anything visual is dependent on the viewer. It’s not a fact. It’s subjective.
To turn something into implies it isn’t already
As an additional note, Spellar does let you bring your own Open AI key but does not allow for purely local processing. You’ve still got to send the audio out for transcription and interpretation.

Also, I have no affiliation with Spellar, just a user.
> Sixteen healthy subjects

> Six participants had previously used LSD

> The sessions were conducted in a calm hospital room.

> Standardized lunches and dinners were served at 1:30 p.m.
and 6:00 p.m

> The subjects were never alone during the first 16 h after drug administration

> The study included a screening visit, six 25 h test sessions (each separated by at least 10 days)

I understand the concept of informed consent, but the study design sounds bad to me, to be honest. According to S1, seven of the subjects had never taken any psychedelic (LSD/psilocybin/MDMA). The study confined them for their first LSD experience, and likely multiple followups, in a hospital room, with a stranger who was not on LSD. And six sessions? LSD should not be used multiple times within 1 year, in my opinion, let alone 2 weeks apart, I think multiple rapid use unnecessarily increases the low-ish risk of psychosis. No matter how nice the room, this seems unethical to me for a few reasons. People shouldn't be experiencing their first psychedelics in a hospital room unless they can't physically leave a hospital bed. I just don't think the basic dose-response curve gains us much new science, this is exactly what most people would draw who have experimented with LSD doses between 25-200ug (though the BDNF effects are interesting as another commenter mentioned).

I guess this is a general problem for all psychedelic studies, though. There's no way to place all the necessary controls around the subject, without keeping them indoors and making them feel like a trapped mouse. The inability to change your own setting during a significant psychedelic trip can definitely induce or prolong major anxiety, much more for someone experiencing novel effects for the first time.
But the idea is still the same? You can make "smart pointers" that are attached to arenas or whatever you want to call them. On those, the addressable size of the pointer is confined to how large the arena is.
Why though? Why are devs so afraid of auth?
They are also used in bulk to defend against larger competitors using this type of threat. In a war where the ammunition is garbage, you either lose or you start hoarding garbage.
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That was a good chuckle, thanks! The image of that honkin' big plug on a kettle is great!
yes you can, but only the paid for Ultimate edition if you want the Golang plugin.
Hopefully a wholly undefendable patent, you're essentially trying to patent the Unicode spec. The rest of it is perform an action in response to a text message which clearly isn't novel.
Where’d the game come from? Hint: the players.
Patents are part of the game you have to play, like it or not. If you don't patent your inventions somebody else will and they will come after you with their lawyers. Patents are used defensively far more often than they are used offensively in these stupid "Intellectual Property" battles.

Because of this, there is absolutely no point in shaming someone for patenting a thing, especially when they are apologetic about it like parent is, and most especially when they are not threatening to weaponize the patent themselves.
When comparing sweatshops to a proper inhouse team I think the ingroup and outgroup can be left unspecified. I fear I one day wake up and have become a jingoist.
Can you elaborate on this? If you see something suspicious about this, maybe actually explain what you saw...
>none of the auctions or checkbox ticking exercises would have been manageable by startups

Generally startups should not be in government supply chain unless it is explicitly permitted / requested. They are by definition too risky for public to rely on their services, so it's ok that they cannot pass the checkbox ticking exercise. In rare cases where their presence is desirable (e.g. to boost innovation or find radically new solutions), government can always step in and offer them sherpa service (as it usually happens) to go through the paperwork.

Whether the whole regulation is necessary, is another question. I think it does, but the process must be more cost-efficient. It can be. I have seen in some places how the government has put focus on bureaucratic efficiency and it worked, but that often means a strategic horizon of a few decades, which is not within the reach of most democracies today: you need a stable government and public consensus.
Thanks for the extensive response. However, I'm a materialist and I don't follow your point. You say dualism was replaced by materialism, but there are still billions who subscribe to dualism; it wasn't replaced.

My claim isn't that the current LLMs are thinking; my claim is that much of what comes out of our mouths aren't any more sophisticated.
I don't follow this argument. Unless you chose to step in to DetSys ecosystem with this fh tool or whatever, this has no impact on you at all.
> because $10,000 feels extraordinarily high for a server-side web bug.

Am I misunderstanding the bug? In my reading, this bug translates to "a list of the top 1,000 Youtube accounts' email addresses (or as many as you can get until Google detects it and shuts it down)." Why isn't that conceivably worth more than $10,000?
>And the name is terrible.

The name is just a piece of hacker lore from back in the day

https://catb.org/jargon/html/D/DEADBEEF.html
In my experience too when posting a negative review it can get removed (this was about replacement batteries for lenovo laptops).
I've been using the Sapling CLI frontend with GitHub as a backend for all my open source projects for a few years now (I've also used mononoke and eden at work, but IMO those only apply to people with hundred-gigabyte monorepos). So speaking based on my open source work:

- I am absolutely loving the improved UI/UX for common operations - being able to do the same actions with fewer commands and fewer concepts to understand, and much more helpful error messages when I try to do something invalid

- The existence of some unique features (`split`, `absorb`, and `restack` being particular favourites -- IIRC people have created third-party scripts to replicate these commands for git, but last I checked they weren't as good, and they aren't installed by default)

- Having the commit log integrated with github (being able to see which of my branches match to which PRs, and whether the PR is unreviewed / accepted / rejected / merged)
Adobe to Charge 50 Cents per AI Video in New Product Launch
Nearly every storage failure I've dealt with has been because of a failed RAID card (except for thousands of bad quantum bigfoot hard drives at IUPUI).

Moving to software storage systems (ZFS, StorageSpaces, etc.) has saved my butt so many times.
I end up doing this too, but ensure that the "single data disk" is regularly backed up offsite too (several times a day, zfs send makes it easy). One needs an offsite backup anyway, and as long as your home server data workload isn't too high and you know how to restore (which should be practiced every so often), this can definitely work.
Please see my comment about about the sad necessity for patents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026595
what if india had programmers that were just as good? that would be a more apt comparison to what we will be facing in the near future. an alien country where the supply of programmers is infinite and they are better than any human. i bet five years ago you would say chatGTP, this very conversation, would be impossible or 1000 years off. you dont know anything
I made a site like that, fixmydocuments.com

Also check out my open source project for that:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr
Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history
AI will buy the rights to humanity.
Rosatom is a scientific and engineering agency, not a propaganda agency, they're not running a social media company. I'll wait for more test results, it's new tech, they know how to run their numbers.
Got it. I went native; NixOS wiki has an example of an overlay
It's not on Windows or Android...the two biggest OS market shares.
Is there a Nix-based company co-founded by Eelco Dolstra to which you wouldn't object?
Show HN: CubeBistro – A Robotic Restaurant in a Cube
Imagine a restaurant that fits in your office, city block, or even your home. Cubeistro is a fully automated, robotic restaurant inside a compact, futuristic cube. With ingredients delivered directly from farmers in cartridge-like boxes, we eliminate the need for traditional supply chains, reducing waste and maximizing efficiency. Orders are placed via an app or touchscreen, and food is delivered in color-coded lock boxes, keeping items warm or cold. No staff, no waste, just fresh food, and a new way to dine.

Is anyone curious how this works?
Too bad Google maps is a pile of garbage now. Directions that include advertisements. Nonsensical naming of bodies of water.

Google eats a bag of dicks more and more every day.
TLS is not an end goal in itself, we don't use it simply because "TLS is double-plus-good, raw HTTP is crimethink", sorry, because it's a "best practice" (whatever that term actually means): we use it because it provides us with transport layer security against some specific threats. What threats do your proposed approaches help to secure against, except "developers have mental ability to set up and use a configuration that'd be insecure in prod"? The only even remotely reasonable threat I can think of is the scenario in which your network hardware manufacturer (be it Cisco, or Huawei, or whatever) is wiretapping you. Indeed, it is a valid threat for e.g. Google (PRISM does exist) which is why they've switched to using TLS everywhere. But aside from that?