skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parasitic Web Re-Assembly
Is it a thing? A better way to "store" code?

Take a bunch of website DOMS, use compression to store the location of code within the DOM. Checksum. Spit out a functioning completely different website.

Lots of problems obviously, but interesting ones.

1) Probably storing a compressed packet that just has URI + strloc is smaller than an entire website. But is it small enough to be sent via copy/paste limitations on most devices, say under 1k characters?

2) How do you efficiently search for the pieces of your site? <ahref> this and that, sure tags can be repeated, but the english language, javascript logic, css layout, fonts, image data, how do you determine which pieces of your site are available and which are not before you even start searching? Lets say a website has a <head> tag with a bunch of spider instructions, html version, stored font locations, javascript versions, etc. You could have a central repository sure, but you're not searching for "Hot mommies in my area", you're searching for <script src="uniqueName.js"></script> FAIL <script src=" SUCCESS uniqueName.js"></script>
FAIL ... you can see how this can easily lead into recursive madness. You could potentially have a dictionary, so the compiler in your browser would know, if you're using node or vue or something, essentially you enforce a paradigm on the dev end, the browser would know what is and isn't within the standard language before it compiles, and may expect a github page or something for custom libraries. But enforcing a standard is silly, not because it's a bad concept, but because people don't do it. That's why we have NODE and Vue, because vanilla JS wasn't a good standard. But you can at least start with bullshit and see if people can build something better on top of it.
3) How do you handle unique cases where no code exists?

4) How do you handle broken bits due to information decay and loss on a network?

5) Ideally it's a serverless website. How do you verify security of a site when the entire contents of it can essentially be copy and pasted in a string and reassembled in

6) Rate limiting, what you save in space, you lose in bandwidth and communication. You will increase communication on a network exponentially in relation to the amount of web requests made.

7) Is it even the right solution? Due to tech monopoly, something that should be marginally expensive due to Moores law, i.e. server space, is instead extremely expensive producing large amounts of revenue for companies that are already worth billions. Is a silly little tech solution really a reasonable way to counteract monopoly power?

8) How do you compile and run a website like this? Browser extension? That allows browsers to choose whether or not to support them, some of which also offer server space in direct competition to the protocol. A separate browser entirely isn't reasonable for the average person.
> Right, which is why it's still ongoing. They have a year to complete it.

So maybe the President's special boy shouldn't be tweeting that 150 year olds are receiving Social Security payments because he doesn't understand cobol's datetime system. That only way I take these people seriously is the way I would take a toddler with a lit torch seriously.
You don’t think they have ill intent? Really? They have made it abundantly clear how much joy they get out of slashing services for everyday citizens, cutting jobs, and outright harassing federal workers. They are full of malicious intent for the people they view as the enemy.
Really interesting, I used it today still lots of issues. Maybe my python notebook is not approach is too complicated for Sonnet? Couldn't be able to fix a custom complex seaborn plot. 4o failed too. o3-mini-high managed to do it really well on the other hand.
Well, it was a good run. 25 films ain't bad!
And they're losing all but the worst candidates because of it, which explains a lot.
Carnivorous dinosaurs thrived in Australia 120M years ago
Wait, can you tell me how to set it for the whole OS? Then please do!
> In an hour-long interview, I have to be able to state the problem in a way the candidate can understand, within 10 minutes or so. We don't have time for a lecture on the intricacies of voucher calculation and global sales tax law.

If you send me a rubric I can pre-load whatever you want to talk about. If you tell me what you're trying to build and what you need help with, I can show up with a game plan.

You need to make time for a conversation on the intricacies of voucher calculation and global sales tax law if you want to find people jazzed about the problem space.
Yep. Much of cryptocurrency content is just "Discover Why Financial Regulations Exist" speedruns.
Especially in these times I think it's important to support any software that is simply doing a good job for a reasonable fee. Rarer and rarer unfortunately.
"How many google shares do I get?"
I've definitely worked in places where "Move fast and break things" tended to focus on breaking things. There would be bugs that we didn't fix because "We can just fix the database when it happens." It would take 2hours to fix a bug that would cause of 10's of hours of weekly support request, but the focus would always be on building new features, of which 10% got any real usage.
> i.e. if you wag your tail chasing a bad end for 15 mins, this is a fail in an interview

In all pair programming interviews I have run (which I will admit have been only a few) I would fail myself as an interviewer if I was not able to guide the interviewee away from a dead end within 15 minutes.

If the candidate wasn't able to understand the hints I was giving them, or just kept driving forward, then they would fail.
Uruguay's Green Energy Success Story Takes an Unexpected Turn
>And that's worked for most of 200+ years. I would posit that no amount of legislation will be able to stop bad-faith actors from screwing up the system,

This doesn't even require bad faith actors for it to become a clusterfuck. It's a scaling issue. Things that used to work at smaller scales accumulate cruft and other issues, until things ultimately fall apart. 200 years is of course a good run, but it wasn't going to last forever. Actually 200 years is such a long run, one doesn't have to bring "bad faith actors" into the equation at all to reach this conclusion, but I guess when things start to fall apart some people need someone to blame. Ask yourself this though... if the system was doing so great, how would it have allowed someone like Trump to ever win in the first place (let alone in the second place, as he did in 2024)? That's not a healthy system. Too many were disillusioned, and that's not their fault.

>~50% of the voting popular that "burn it to the ground" is a reasonable take.

They are disgusted with what they see, and have for a very long time felt powerless to change it. Not really just "felt", but were powerless to change it. Trump ran for office, they saw an opportunity. It's not exactly unreasonable, it's just inconvenient to a class of people who have grown comfortable because they're a little closer to the spigots of graft that pour forth. Being "reasonable" in the way you'd use that word hasn't really ever worked for those people, and they waited quite a long time for it to do the trick.
> - How do I even reach out to potential customers/users?

My only suggestion is that you focus on this above everything else. Once you have an answer, then go back and consider the other questions.
Identity's Hidden Business Value (2024)
> And if the US military doesn't remain loyal to the president, then on top of a fascist dictator seizing power, then we'll have a military coup.

“Instead”, not “on top”. (I mean, unless the military installs a different fascist dictator, which is certainly not unheard of in military coups that are notionally countercoups.)
The idea of a four-day week is very appealing to me as a parent. However, I believe its primary benefit isn't just boosting morale or reducing burnout, which already sounds like a win-win for both employees and the company. Instead, its main advantage is that a shorter week leads to more focused work with fewer bloated meetings when we're on the job. This is why studies show an overall increase in efficiency.
That's misinformation. They are not "audits".

They are sincerely following Project 2025, decimating government, and very likely to fire A LOT more federal workers over the summer, then they will install Loyalists throughout.

Billionaire Musk .. aka "The Auditor" .. is "primarying" or threatening to fund opposition candidates for Senators who fight him on this.

It's an autogolpe.
Be careful what you wish for, as the saying goes. I have seen so many times (in private organizations) clearly inefficient processes getting ripped out, only to be replaced with much more inefficient ones.

Sometimes there are no shortcuts: You have to know what you're doing. The "This is 'something', therefore we must do it" bit only gets you so far.
Idk if it’s just me but none of the media on the homepage is loading
Who do you propose be put in charge? Why when the Democrats were in power weren't they put in charge before?

As for an actual audit, those have been done left and right. Audits only validate where the money is going not why.

Clearly they are doing something, budgeted spend is being cut and most notably if they weren't doing anything we wouldn't be having this discussion. We are also only a handful of weeks into the presidency. They're being very clear about what they are doing. Looking line by line at some of these cuts, I've yet to see anyone here actually debate the validity of all of the spend. Yes good programs will likely be impacted, things will be course corrected and brought back where appropriate.

It's a painful process no mater who is executing it. The only way to reduce the budgetary spend of the country is to do just that, cut spend. You start small and work your way up.
For sake of testing your position, let's assume the fraud is true and he does what you want and publishes the details like that.

What about the corner-case person who actually is legitimate and now has incredibly private information out there to make stealing their identity trivial? As a statistical anomaly who is often that corner case, I'm glad you're not the one making the policy. I wish Elon wasn't as well, and I'm sure there's going to be a giant mess at the end, but using government power (which Elon has, whether rightly or wrongly) to publish personal information about people (which they get by force giving their monopoly on government power) especially without trial or due diligence is very wrong IMHO.
2 really seems to be the biggest issue, and then 7, 8

Most issues with grabbing web data isn't from grabbing it, it's from companies (who often scrape and harvest data at ENORMOUS RATES) turning around and making it difficult for people to do the same to them.

And then just the recursive nature of failed search. It seems to have a similar solution to dict brute force password guessing.
Just curious, what kind of simulations do you work on (mission design?) and what libraries would you use in C++?
Hehe, I have to remember to bring one of my custom Forths to the next interview.
The Inefficient Courtroom
I get it, there’s work to be done to flush this out but it’s interesting to me that actual scientific enquiry gets more push back than “but old guy said so.”
Generally the "pleasant" odor is meant to cover up some combination of "unpleasant" odors. It's nice when the area around a liter box doesn't smell like cat piss.
Dropbox Capture End of Support
They don't seem to have any issue selling their movies, animated series, comics and novels in other countries. In fact, they are being quite successful exporting their video-games recently. They are way more successful in their local market than abroad, but that's true for almost any cultural product.
AI takeover is what he's referencing.
I've been a proponent of pair programming since the early days of Agile, when it was still seen as part of extreme programming. Unfortunately, it’s not often employed in workplace settings.

With that said, would your perception of the interview remain positive if the outcome had been negative?

A common challenge across all interviews is a mismatch in personal dynamics, which can significantly impact the experience for both participants.

Consider a scenario where a senior developer, who prefers simplicity, is paired with a mid-level developer who is still captivated by complexity.
Edge and Firefox both replicate the issue. It is on all browsers
They're now owned by "copyright trolls".

They hit up a company I know because their web-crawler found a PDF that someone generated using their library over a decade ago.

https://beemanmuchmore.com/software-licensing-trolls-apryse-...

I'd avoid it.
> I think the image below pretty much sums it up

The image below does sum it up but not in the way the author thinks.

Google wants to hire people who complete their hiring process. They're OK with missing out on some people who would be excellent but who can't/won't make it through their hiring process.

The mistake may lie in copying Google's hiring process.
Ever noticed how certain brands seem to have a personality all their own?
Nice! But on Darwin I need to do:

shuf -n 5 --random-source /dev/urandom /usr/share/dict/words | tr '\n' ' '

As paste complains about working with a pipe
I like your way of articulating. I've been describing things in much harsher terms lately along the lines of "modern economy is a scam".

Thinking of things like how Comcast quietly bumps your bill up every year unless you call and argue with them. Or when I rented a storage unit at a Public Storage that opened next door. They automatically enroll you in their 15/mo "insurance" no matter if you already have a policy and the only way to "opt out" is to contact them in writing and submit a form at least a day AFTER you sign up.

All these little micro-grifts that make these companies millions of dollars at scale is definitely ASYMMETRIC.
Ducks love slugs, oddly.
I hope they stop what they are doing. I hope they follow the law.
I'm pro-choice, and one way I think about it is that I want to reduce suffering of children. I have children and I feel reasonably confident that they are capable of extreme suffering. We have imperfect information and there is no bright line between fetus and child (it's just a continuous development), but I strongly suspect that a fetus at say, 5 weeks, is less capable of suffering than a child.

So imagine a situation where a mother and father have a falling out. By week 6 the mother feels there is no future in the relationship and feels she can't offer the coming child a good childhood on her own. I feel if a child is unwanted by the parents, they are more likely to suffer.

So in this sense, abortion can be a form of harm reduction. It does not reduce ALL harm, but reduces the net-harm across all parties.
Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024
Well, I didn't say it was super practical approach, only that it has the best predictive validity :D
You're falling for the same errors that xkcd pointed out in the first place.

Adding different connectors and different cases adds a lot more to remember and hardly any extra entropy
1) the planet is a big, BIG place and there are rainforests and oceans. Like, all of the air that we breathe originally started from ocean life.

and 2) there have been studies on this done by NASA, et al, and the general consensus was you need a lot of plants
Sometimes the 'old' ways are the best
"Why did people have to remember things?"
It looks like you professionally sold 30 years of your life for money with no fun. You could have done something for fun all this time, and got payed for it, too. Much better that way.
I don't think 'artificial' is the right word there... more like 'temporarily' or 'from supply shock', but it isn't an artificial increase
This didn't have anything to do with cryptocurrency at all. It sounds like the "victim" never even touched an actual blockchain. He was induced to send money to to a scammer, using the traditional banking system.
>This is the load-bearing idea that is made of toilet tissue.

Needed to save that line,
> The pushback seems to mostly be “I don’t like Musk in particular, and thus I don’t like that Musk in particular has this access”

You are either delusional or purposely misrepresenting facts
Security risk?
This is why you get so many unknown number calls and texts. Best not to answer or reply.

Back in 99/00 a friend of mine received the 'I am a Nigerian prince' email. This scam was very new at the time and neither of us had seen anything like it before. My friend was believing and accepted it as a good money making opportunity, whereas I was instantly 'this is so obviously some kind of dodgy thing'. Luckily I was able to persuade him to not follow up.
Goats can be territorial, but I'm not aware of them having any particular inclination to guard chickens or livestock.

Livestock guard dogs work better, but then you're dealing with a large dog that isn't a pet and isn't socialized like a house dog.
Obsidian makes money from its add-on services Sync and Publish. Commercial license is joining the Catalyst license as an optional ways to support Obsidian.

The problem with the Commercial license is that it wasn't clear. Many organizations were out of compliance without any way for Obsidian to enforce it, since the app is local and doesn't require sign up.
Mascotbot: Real-Time, Engaging Avatar SDK for Al Agents
You are not alone in this supposition.

I believe it's called an autogolpe as Trump is supporting him in this.
I have heard it much more aptly described as “enforcing the social contract”.

You agree to uphold the contract of tolerance with everyone that participates. If someone refuses to uphold the contract with others who do, then you have no obligation to uphold the contract with that individual.
Can’t wait for a day when there is a 2-paragraph summary of legal terms and conditions within the browser perhaps with a simple plugin.
The current job market is so messed up that I honestly can't see myself getting a job until we hit a wall and people start using their brains again.

I have 26 years of solid experience, been writing code since I was 8.

There should be a ton of companies out there just dying to hire someone with that kind of experience.

But I'm not perfect, no one is; and faking doesn't work very well for me.
I share this because I know that, like me at one point, some people may be one of today's lucky 10,000[0] and learning about EFF.

That they are involved in current politics is no surprise and not the reason I shared -- they are always involved in things that affect the rights of people, especially with regards to privacy and electronic freedom.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/
Not related to Project 2025, and they have countless times said they aren't associated with that project.

But yes, "Flood the Zone" is the strategy to combat Democrat's media and court strategies.

It was started by Steve Bannon in 2018, but expanded massively under Stephen Miller.

The rest of your post is just hysteria so I won't comment on that.
It's an issue that wasn't high risk. I mean, sure, check off the box, but don't pretend this moves the needle much. This was minor compared to those issues that have no clear solutions, or reasons to think there won't be solutions.
Education is the purview of the States, not the Federal Gov. So if you're comparing scores you have to compare Singapore against individual States. You will find a HUGE disparity between states. Some do quite well, close to SG levels. Others are abysmal.
Many. It's private for basic reasons, as are PII in your workplace.
Okay, this is… not encouraging.

What happened to the tickets being tracked in the Epic that signified this launch? The entire Epic should have been flagged as resolved/completed before a launch like this should have been triggered. As in, the ticket for the launch should have been dependent on the Epic itself being completed.

That’s how you dot your i’s and cross your t’s to prevent very important things from falling through the cracks.
LOX is apparently MPL, so a bit easier to work with than Nyx' AGPL, but still at odd with the MIT/Apache2 combo that has become the norm in the Rust world.
It sounds like they gonna dilute the crap out of this by doing tv, games, etc
WWII B-29 Bomber Base Reclaimed for Future Pacific Fight
It shouldn't be hard to understand why absolute power in the hands of yourself is the best political system. Since everyone can't be king, their next preference is going to be absolute power in the hands of someone who has their interests in mind. Unfortunately, we live in a world where people have varied interests and you can't really trust that anyone is fully aligned with you anyway.
Denmark is pretty dang hard to get into, and they're not especially crazy about outsiders. Plus you're applying to essentially 2-4 companies in the DK, and by number of openings it's probably Novo Nordisk
> small companies and startups are great at interviewing

Small companies have the benefit of the pressure to fill a role to get work done, the lack of bureaucratic baggage to "protect" the company from bad hires, and generally don't have enough staff to suffer empire-building.

Somewhere along the line the question changes from "can this candidate do the job that other people in this office are already doing?" to "can this candidate do the job of this imaginary archetype I've invented with seemingly impossible qualities".
January sixth was an insurrection, that fact is not changed by trump pardoning the traitors who terrorized Congress that day.
That was long after MSP430 were widely used, that pricing was part of the launch of the "value line" G-series (And it's associated MSP430 LaunchPad eval board, which is what was priced at $4.30).
If by “crypto,” the grandparent meant “cryptography,” this is not true. Most widely-deployed asymmetric/public-key primitives (e.g., RSA, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), etc.) are quite fragile against an adversary with a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer (CRQC). To clarify how fragile, the general consensus/state-of-the-art as far as I am aware, is that Shor's algorithm (which breaks asymmetric primitives) requires about 2x the number of perfect, logical qubits as the RSA key-size (e.g., ~4000 qubits for factoring RSA 2048); however, because none of our qubit designs have a low enough error rate, you need about 1000 qubits to simulate/error-correct for a single logical qubit—so, currently, it's expected you would need around 4_000_000 physical qubits to factor RSA-2048. Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is specifically the subset of cryptography that is designed to withstand attacks from quantum-enabled adversaries; it is still being actively designed, studied, standardized, implemented, and deployed.

If instead, the reference was to “cryptocurrencies,” most cryptocurrencies I am aware of depend on non-PQ constructions, and fall into the same buckets as RSA and ECC. Some systems, like Bitcoin, are in significant danger without large overhauls—if a practical CRQC is actually realized. There are efforts underway throughout the cryptocurrency communities to try to prepare for such an eventuality, but to my knowledge, none of them have major adoption yet.

As a final note on investment advice: I don't give out investment advice. :)

All the best,
Trust is objectively bad for systems design and processes, especially without audit and oversight! Everything should be trustless whenever it can be. They have broken every best practice in the book.
Yeah now if they can go ahead and make ThreeJS line thickness be more than 1 that'd be greeattttt....

edit: this is a joke about "OpenGL Core Profile with the WebGL renderer" which I'm not sure if Chrome (browser) would be responsible for
Here you get SWATted for "fun" by kids, and targeted by Right-Wing extremists with death-threats for "political speech", and targeted by criminals based upon your vulnerability. USA is sooooo not Sweden.