skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Post-Twitter, in my corner of the world, scholarly publishing technology, people have moved to BlueSky, Mastodon and LinkedIn.

I agree, LinkedIn is full of people performing their career as social media and posting selfies. But there is also useful information from orgs and people who moved off Twitter and shifted their weight to LinkedIn.

Twitter was a unifying platform (maybe that was just accumulated through time) and the shakeup has benefited LinkedIn.
If I'm not misremembering, Mistral released a model based on MAMBA, but I haven't heard much about it since.
The one upside is it generates so much amazing content for the r/LinkedinLunatics subreddit
Super interesting thanks for the tidbit
More proof we’re just flying around on the back of a turtle on the back of a turtle…
he’d run against Barack or Bill which would be the entertainment we all want and need :)
Trans is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to anybody who does not identify with or express the gender they were assigned at birth (https://www.hrc.org/resources/sexual-orientation-and-gender-...). Having surgery and/or always presenting as a gender you weren't assigned at birth is not a prerequisite to being trans. "Transvestite" is a somewhat dated term that is considered offensive in some circles, though either way, a transvestite would by definition be "trans".
I'd say it's not that off: for computer science the numbers are 686/1150, so only about 40% are US citizens or PRs. This is even more scewed at top schools in my experience.

Also thanks for finding this data, didn't know it existed!
Yes. Raids on queer bars would round up people up, and arrest any gender non-conforming people wearing fewer than three articles of clothing of their assigned sex. Terminology was different at the time, but people we would probably now describe as trans men or trans women were some of the main targets of those arrests.
How to get the best out of your Yubikey with GPG (2020)
Achievement, Here and There
OpenAI Board Rejects Musk's $97.4B Bid
I believe KAN hype died off due to practical reasons (e.g. FLOPs from implementation) and empirical results, i.e. people reproduced KANs and they found the claims/results made in the original paper were misleading.

Here's a paper showing KANs are no better than MLPs, if anything they are typically worse when comparing fairly. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16674
But how will people possibly know how successful I am without it?!?
IRS Expected to Lay Off Thousands
I laughed when I read that, too. Like locking up that “$2MM dollars of information” in a vault secured with a piece of string.
Genuinely curious what's a decent platform to keep in touch with companies and handle your career. Any tips?
Several apps that try to solve this. Good one, but costly, is cloudron.
It allows you to one click install a wide range of self-hosted apps.
Cloudron itself is subscription software that can be installed on own server or many cloud options.

There are many more, though. Things like proxmox with app stores, which are easily installed in most clouds.

Also CasaOs and others.
Near universal outrage is arguably part of what saved the ACA in 2017, though obviously infighting and incompetence by the GOP leadership was big piece as well— then again, outraged constituents jamming phone lines helps stoke those fires, particularly when it's card-carrying party members who are saying "yeah we'll vote GOP again next time, but not for you; fix this or you're getting primaried."

The real trick is that the outrage has to be enough to break through the right wing media smokescreen that's currently gaslighting half the country with "yeah well everything is about to get more expensive, but you actually want this, it's patriotic to be excited about higher household prices because it's all in service of making America great again, whatever that now means!"

And critically, it's not just Fox/OAN/Newsmax that are the problem, it's also the army of thousands of podcasters and influencers who repeat these talking points. Many of Joe Rogan's 11M listeners likely trust what he tells them considerably more than they trust what a talking head on cable says.
I've learned about the USDS in the past on hackernews and was always impressed. If someone wanted to really make a "DOGE" in good-faith (i.e. improve efficiency of government instead of just destroying everything), I think it would look like expanding the power and scope of things like USDS.
It's the primary method for connecting with recruiters, and all the jobs I've had in the past fifteen years have been due to connections through LinkedIn.

It's not "social media" in the same vein as other platforms.
I’m working with a group on an RL core with models as tool use, for explainable agentic tasks with actual discovery.
Friedman's thermostat

Analyst visits his lumberjack cousin one Christmas at his cabin. Notices the cousin puts an amount of fire in the fireplace, which is correlated with the outside temperature, while the inside temperature remains constant (uncorrelated with firewood or outdoor temperature). Analyst wonders what his cousin is wasting all his wood for.

http://bactra.org/weblog/1178.html
Wasn't the GOP just recently hell bent on stopping an increase to the debt limit because it was so utterly awful already that the country was on the verge of collapse?
That isn't capitalism-the-concept. That's a perverse incentive leading to an undesired outcome in the real world.

Whether or not that outcome is an inevitable consequence of the ideology is an entirely different discussion.
> we all use it to find work

For what it is worth, I do not. I have only had an account there for a brief period of time when I was first looking for a job after university. Then, when Microsoft bought it, I deleted my account.

When I was looking for a job afterwards, I had to go on an active look-out. I reached out to 10s of companies manually. I got ignored or immediately rejected most of the time. My success rate from me reaching out to an actual offer was about 3 %. But I guess for an average person that is to be expected.

Looking for any job is easy. Looking for a good job takes time.
gRPC Swift 2
all of them are the worst, dude.

you know, like that famous quote: some people are more equal than others.

or something like that anyway, I cannot be arsed to check for the exact one, because it's pathetic shit, not important.

iirc it is from either of these two books by George Orwell: animal farm or 1984.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
> I know, Marsha did not throw the first brick at Stonewall.

I assume that the intention is to confuse people. They at some point found out that Johnson wasn't at Stonewall until it was over, but still for some reason need that name to continue to be associated with the event. I assume the next extension will insert mentions of Saddam Hussein around any mention of 9/11, but include a disclaimer that says "I know Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11."
How is X worse?
One of the greatest blunders of the UK Government is allowing the sale of DeepMind for less than $1 Billion
Enshittification touched everything
Cloudron solves this going from the other side: they package apps themselves. To support transparent migrations and backups.
LinkedIn is full of worthless posts full of users wanking each other off. Its the only place full of "get out of bed early, quite drinking soy lattes, inherit wealth" type of posts where it doesn't get challenged (maybe X is another one).

I genuinely might prefer reading AI-generated crap, because then I feel better about humanity.
I, too, haven't seen the word "transformer" outside an ML context in months. Didn't stop me from wondering if the OP meant the thing that changes voltage.
Why would a new exchange result in worse retail fills? They're obligated to get the NNBO price across all exchanges, and much of the retail flow doesn't even hit exchanges at all (internalized by Citadel/Virtu).
Completely agreed! And "trade-offs" is the perfect keyword here. In exchange for zero cognitive load (ie. complexities in managing build config & consistency between dev & prod setups), we get a bunch of ESM, rendering the performance of our app dependent on browser loading optimizations (among other things).

I'll try to benchmark this "no build" setup on mdeium-large codebases, also comparing between different use cases (e.g. blog-like website vs rich-interactive web app such as "online photo editing") and let's discover the pros and cons of everything :)
latest - sorted by Ratio :
https://github.com/inikep/lzbench/blob/master/doc/lzbench20_...
My linked-in is 10 years out of date, and I agree that killing it off is mighty attractive.

Does anybody here have any experience searching for jobs without a linked-in? I'd be curious to know how much an effect that would have on future job searches.
Theres places like https://www.cosm.com/the-experience that have a spherical view and seating right up close that do live sports and concerts that are more engaging than a normal flat screen.
There were laws in many places in the states that banned "crossdressing" which was applied to trans and gay people alike. While the specific term "transgender" hasn't been around very long, the gay community has always included a lot of gender-nonconformity. It's part of the reason gender is lumped in with sexuality in the first place. Anti-homosexuality laws would've applied to trans people as well. I still remember how in the 90's trans women were considered feminine gay men by people outside the community. I can look up the sources if you like, but that's my understanding.
Competent people use processes, procedures, and safeguards to minimize human error. It's easy to say "everyone makes mistakes" when you're just a guy, but when you're wielding the powers of the presidency in such an unbalanced and unchecked way, he should be reassuring us how he will assure the trustworthiness of his proclamations going forward. Instead, he gestures vaguely to the human condition.

How can you say he's not an unreliable actor? The man has unlimited resources, power, and the best information available to him. He also is in a position of dizzying public trust right now, so really he should be making the utmost effort to be above reproach. "Aw shucks man, what do you expect, I'm just human after all" is not reassuring. And I'm sorry that's not a charitable enough take, but we are far past the time for benefit of the doubt.
I'll happily vote you down because political power is formed by collaboration. Excluding trans people from the liberation movement makes the gay community weaker against attacks, not stronger.
The united states has a great socialised healthcare system. Its called gofundme. So I reckon yes.
I did and it took ages for the damn thing to die off. It kept on resurrecting itself! I dare not try to login to it just in case it arises again.

Prepare for a long mission!
Yes.

It is happening contemporaneously with all the other bullshittery so I think it is a reasonable conclusion that DoGE personnel directed by someone likely unelected and so far unaccountable are the parties responsible.

I'm not sure why someone would intentionally destroy the utility of a site that has been extremely useful, not only for Americans but for people anywhere who needed to understand earthquakes and their local historical seismicity.
Details about victims whose release might cause them further harm is the obvious one.
I think the Deck might occupy a similar spot as the Nintendo Switch, in that it's not the most powerful console out there, but it's portable and nice, and it's a good enough target.

I think especially for indie games, which are typically less demanding than the big new AAA shoot-at-stuff games, the Steam Deck might be an "unofficial standard" for quite awhile.

Though I don't work in the games industry, so I'm talking out of my ass. Again, I'm an annoying Linux person so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Java should have just stuck with AWT. Java on Desktop has been a mess ever since Swing.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/30/politics/faa-disability-h...
If you don't mind me asking, what was the sub that you were a mod of?
that's been happening for years even
Meta and other data mining businesses are constantly complaining about the GDPR because it limits their ability to steal personal information and they have to comply with data residency, consent and deletion regulations. They also "play dumb" and blame compliance with a regulation they want gone, or make a big deal out of compliance to turn public opinion.

When there is a difference in regulation between major economies there may be an advantage to be had, but my feeling is that the GDPR (or similar) is not the main reason European tech companies are unable to compete with the US. There is no equivalent of Silicon Valley in Europe that combines talent and investors in one place.

It's a hard problem to solve when Europe is made up of multiple countries and cultures, even if the EU has aligned some key things.
I'm fond of this one, since a friend of mine, Carlos Pérez Delgado, worked on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cellular_automaton. :)

(In case it's not super clear, I'm kinda jokin' here...)
People do tend to be kind of stupid and easily manipulated regardless of who wrote the comment. I'm often stupid and manipulated myself.
I don't wish harm, but I also won't shed a tear if it happens.
The reality is none of us can confidently declare things as unequivocally as you do. Google knows best what their risk profile is. Mexico threatens to sue and yet you are so confident the US could not do the same?

Maybe there's a federal contract in the mix, or maybe users are federal contractors. Google is an institution, figuratively speaking. Maybe being a globally-significant provider, Google has seen the trajectory similar disputes in dredging quasi-legal cruft like official interference with their services. Maybe they recognize that once you abandon democratic decision-making, you are adrift, and that's not a place they wish to be.
Of those who didn't vote, why would they choose to vote next time?

None of this is a surprise. It's not even like 2016, where people could say "I figured he'd be less bad than he said he would be" with a straight face.

Whatever excuse they found to not vote for the Democrat in 2024, will still apply in 2026 and 2028. Or they'll find a new one.

And turnout in midterms is even worse than in Presidential years. I don't see those non-voters suddenly taking an interest then.

It would be fantastic if somebody learned some lessons. But I think 2024 proves pretty definitively that people don't learn lessons.
The chain mail kidnapping of peoples' Hotmail accounts should have told us enough about the integrety of the site from the get go.

"Growth hack".
> retired elderly parents run a VPN

Does that VPN use certificates or a pre shared key? Do they understand the different security implications between those two choices?
Of course, worldwide, setting up new profiles is (burecratically) discouraged, due to fake profiles with AI help hammering the networks and marketplaces. Harder than even to set up a new profile for any purpose.
Counterpoint: it is the perfect platform for Ken Cheng
You haven’t quite finished the saga though. When you finally decide to quit (I did, having suffered a lot less pain than you), you can’t.

They follow you. They email you, they are relentless. I’m 10+ years on the outside and still they spam.
so while we are all here: what do you people wish LinkedIn had and had not?
Estates are issued their own, fresh TIN (taxpayer id). Once established they don't operate under the SSN of the deceased.
> A monopoly is better for retail consumers?

I'm confused why The New York Stock Exchange opening another NYSE office location has anything to do with monopoly status. The New York Stock Exchange is obviously still going to own both. If it was a monopoly before opening a second location it still will be, same as if it wasn't a monopoly.
I think you just said the exact same thing.
The same dudes who stood up this page are now writing COBOL to determine what cuts to make. Sounds like a great outcome.
The people who regularly post and comment on linked in about how great their company is are the ones who will take your job when you go on paternity leave.
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes altering a government database, even if left openly exposed, illegal.
So like Monero but for messages?
OP said "people created euphemism for him to avoid getting blocked by automatic filters when discussing him."

So I asked what sites used automatic filters relating to Elon musk? Your link (aka the link this entire discussion is centered around) does not answer that question. Do you have another link that actually does?
My hot take is, social media alongside with TikTok showed the world to some people who usually wouldn’t venture out of their small bubbles. Eventually they see significant positive things about other countries, and a lot of negative about theirs. This subconsciously brings up “we have it worse for sure!” emotions in some people, that later translated into whatever it is right now when some people started targeting and exploiting these feelings.

I have no source, no data, nor examples to defend my point, it’s just the vibes.
American conservatives view governments as inherently evil: if the government can make it more convenient for people to pay tax, people might be willing to pay more tax (or at least object less to tax), allowing the government to spend more money, and since the government is inherently evil, it allows for more evil.

On the other hand, creating an office whose sole objective is to destroy other functioning parts of the government and make it less useful to people? Totally moral.

Don't ask me, I'm not a conservative.
I was on LinkedIn for years. I quit a couple of years ago and have not regretted it one bit. I hasn't resulted in a single sale or new client for me. It's really for salesmen and headhunter and perhaps government officials, not technical people.
Wording has changed throughout history as has our understanding of gender and sexuality. While the specific word "transgender" may not have existed, it's still true that she lived as a woman at the time. At the very least, you can't argue that there's gender-nonconformity going on there. The fact that the Stonewall monument was targeted for removing references of "trans" should hint at why the author of the extension named it this way.
> Ill informed on the inefficiency that seems to be Doge, but isn’t all this moot if we spend like 50 billion dollars on missles and shit?

One doesn't have to look as far as the DOD. See "Why Trump’s Military Deportation Flights Are So Expensive":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNObnSDwWnI

For whatever reason, the Trump administration is using military aircraft to deport people… which costs 2x to 3x the amount of simply chartering civilian aircraft… a practice that ICE already uses.

Two flights start at the same place, and fly to the same destination country: civilian charter cost $55k; military transport cost $166k. One-way.

The military flight to India used two sets of mid-air refuelling tankers was estimated to cost $3M:

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/military-fli...
I've seen Gemini Flash 2 mention "in the OCR text" when responding to VQA tasks which makes me question of they have a traditional OCR process mixed in the pipeline.
If that's the most obvious example:

> The problem is, the law technically never existed. Instead, accounts suggest that police generally used old, often unrelated laws to target LGBT people throughout the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s.

1st hit: https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-lgbtq-drag-thre...
Let me ask a related question, how does employing the power of the federal government to do the reverse manually and at genuine cost to the taxpayer help anyone?
I've worked on some of this stuff. It was mandated by Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) regulation on the finance industry, who developed smoother UX patterns and white-label vendors for doing such a thing, which helped normalize and simplify the process for other data-greedy sectors to adopt. Yes, marketing tried to pretty-please their way into data that should only have been for verification. To my knowledge they didn't succeed. On that attempt. At that company.

That most financial regulations targeting bad actors end up constraining or disempowering regular people is a feature, not a bug. This is a really good thread: There is no freedom without the freedom to transact.

https://nitter.net/punk6529/status/1494444624630403083#m
This is fairly typical of third-world countries. Your business only lasts as long as your patron survives politically. The mayor complains that the city-state of Prospera buys power from the local power company. Of course they do. That's the point usually of SEZs: that they bring local industry and they pay for local services. He complains that the revenue from the apartment tower would have paid for a lot if they paid normal fees and were subject to normal permitting but if they were they wouldn't have built there.

These are all fairly typical to any place and mostly intended outcomes. The SEZ approach is usually a mechanism to promote industry in a place that usually won't see it. But local governments are corrupt. About the one reason you can be sure that Prospera isn't malevolent is that they didn't spend some fraction of those billions of dollars in rigging the election so that their guy would continue to be in power.
Musk has said that he like Xavier Milei's way of "deleting" government departments without too much investigation of their importance because if they're important, you can always put them back. He's probably taking a similar approach with DOGE. Some researchers and aid organizations lose their funding today but if they really are important and not just grift, they or their successors will probably get it back later. This isn't like social welfare where people might starve if their regular payment is stopped. Nobody's going to starve if research funding is cut. Researchers might have to get another job but that's an expected and normal part of life, especially for academics.
You will not regret it. You will not miss it. I did the same to LinkedIn a couple of years ago, and just recently left FaceCrook and Twitter.
Not with that attitude, it isnt!
/s
They don't censor people. You can say anything as long as its legal.
Nah. Shadowbanned users normally don't even realise they're shadow-banned; it's not a growth hacking strategy, and the point of ID is to validate details already provided for advertiser filtering. It doesn't even push the "verification" feature particularly hard. OP is unlucky enough to have IDs that span a couple of countries so probably triggers some half-baked algorithm aiming at weeding out fake profiles (LinkedIn loves AI slop, but it's in the business of selling expensive ways of messaging people, so it doesn't want too many fake profiles).

Not that LinkedIn has great ethics around dark patterns: LinkedIn's original dark pattern growth hacks like the "find contacts" feature linked to your email that made it very easy to accidentally send connection requests to anyone you'd ever been included in an email chain with were particularly inappropriate and the "someone from x looked at your profile" stuff always strikes me as a bit creepy. But nobody shadowbans users as part of their growth funnel.

And whilst LinkedIn is actually surprisingly useless for genuine business conversation, I'm not sure the mad people recounting Things That Didn't Happen which impart Important Business Lessons for likes are any worse than that sort of person on other social networks pushing much weirder and angrier stuff these days....
It’s almost means the English phrase it superficially sounds like lol.
SuckedIn or ChainedIn would be more appropriate as a name.