skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did no such thing, I spent the first 15 years as a part time fitness instructor mostly for the social aspect, hanging out with friends and training for and doing group runs and a little travel.

I spent the next 8 years married (still married) and raising two step sons and spent the last two and half years traveling extensively including over a year doing the “digital nomad thing”.

We have been averaging getting on a plane to do something on average over a dozen times a year since late 2021.

Of course the Covid lockdown slowed us down for two years.

When I am at home in Florida, I go swimming at one of the multiple pools or workout at one of the two gyms that’s part of our complex. It’s warm enough most of the year at least during the day.

During the weekends, I go downstairs and hang out at the bar and just sip soda while hanging out with my friend the bartender and whoever else is down there.

I “retired my wife” in 2020 when I was 46 and she was 44 8 years into my marriage so she could pursue her passion projects and we could pick up and travel as often as we wanted to - the joys of working remotely.
https://threejs.org/docs/index.html#api/en/materials/LineBas...

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color: 0xffffff,
linewidth: 1,
linecap: 'round', //ignored by WebGLRenderer
linejoin: 'round' //ignored by WebGLRenderer
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The inconvenient truth is that everything circles back to in-person interviews.

The article addresses this:

>A lot of companies are doing RTO, but even companies that are 100% in-office still interview candidates from other cities. Spending money to fly every candidate out without an aggressive pre-screen is too wasteful.

No, accidently hiring someone who AI'd their way through the interview costs orders of magnitude more to undo. It's absolutely worth paying for a round trip flight and a couple days of accommodations.
> What are your 5 linux cli desert island commands?

Are you familiar with busybox ?
It’s a nominal capacity that’s printed on the battery, and encoded into its firmware. In practice, batteries tend to exceed this nominal capacity when they’re brand new which is why you see new batteries stay on 100% charge for a long time. As it ages, the true capacity will degrade and eventually falls below the nominal capacity.
Shouldn't this kind of high-level access to federal systems come with a bar that's higher than this? Shouldn't even the appearance of impropriety be sufficient to bar this person from these kinds of positions where the largest datasets of sensitive information are stored?
Because it's all about libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, utopian ambitions like Curtis Yarvin where all government is "the problem" without evidence or admission of reality.
Yeah, if only we had independent regulators in our government who could oversee and regulate it in order to prevent and reduce corruption. Oh wait, Trump fired them all like 3 weeks ago. On purpose. Because they are not operating in good faith, my dude.
Excellent advice.

> Secondly, treat this project as an education. You had an idea and spent months implementing it. That's the easy part. The hard part is finding a market willing to pay money for something. So for your next project do the hard part first. First find a market, find out what they will spend, ideally collect a small deposit (to prove they're serious) and then go from there.

Absolutely. As engineers, we want to focus on the things we find fun, which is building software. But decisions like "should I use Rust or Python? GCP or AWS or bare metal? procedural, OOP, or reactive functional actor model?" are so incredibly irrelevant for running a business. It's all sales, sales, sales, and marketing (which feeds into sales).

If I were starting a business from scratch again today, the things I'd start with are: 1) who is buying this product -- if it's B2B be extremely specific with names and titles at specific companies; 2) why they would care about your product -- what pain point is it solving for them? what are the competitors/alternatives and what advantages do you offer? 3) how are they going to find out about your product; 4) how much are they willing to pay. I'd make sure to answer all these before writing the first line of code.
Not a big deal on the battlefield.
Why are so many emulators written in C#?
Why would I trust a serial liar with anything?

Also, just because he was duly elected it does not give him carte blanche to do whatever he wants, especially when he's running afoul of the law and firing all of the inspectors general and independent monitors.
Now is definitely relevant, however the ones steering the ship don't care about now. Someone will care later, that's all I personally know for sure.
I guess you never studied in a school and therefore not aware of bullying and its stereotypical targets.
Given time to "pursue their passions and interests", most people chose to turn their brain to soup on social media.
No, it is not a government agency.

No, it is not tasked with audits. It is not performing any audit before its actions, nor is it producing anything resembling an audit.

No, audits do not require root access. And in fact root access (the ability to change data) contradicts audit best practices.
They're only listed source is an employee of USAID.

I have no reason to believe anything in this article.
You are confusing not being able to do something well with being able to do it quickly.
A sane web archiver (SaaS or web apps do not count as sane).
Reverse engineering old games is like digital archaeology—except instead of digging up fossils, you’re unearthing spaghetti code and DRM nightmares. Spice86 seems like an exciting new shovel for the job!
The two most straightforward ways are 1) build what you know, 2) talk to people about their needs.
Completely agree that it's hard to beat IBM Plex Mono. And although it doesn't matter much in many contexts in which I use a monospaced font, it has really nice italics, which most monospaced fonts don't.

Fira Mono is also extremely well done, as you'd expect for a typeface from Erik Spiekermann.
San Francisco and other left-leaning areas tried pretty hard to directly reduce education inequality over the last 20-ish years, as discussed in the article, and the results were poor, to say the least.

This is not to say that one should not try to improve equality, but I think that introducing intentional unfairness (e.g. tampering with school or class or job qualifications) or trying to reduce excellence is a valid way to do it. Instead, it’s possible to improve equality by increasing the fairness of some parts of the overall system.

Here’s an interesting example of a school district with a good approach:

https://www.the74million.org/article/dallas-isds-opt-out-pol...

It turns out that many students who are capable of performing above grade level don’t do so because no one signs them up for it. So Dallas ISD tried signing students up automatically, and it works! Achievement appears to be increasing as a result within each major racial group and there’s less inequality.
Given enough time, you'll end up with a lot of legitimate users who follow a huge number of accounts but rarely interact with more than a handful, similar to how many long-time YouTubers have a very high subscriber:viewer ratio (that is, they have way more subscribers than you would expect given their average view count), and there's nothing inherently suspicious about it. People lose access to their accounts, make new accounts, die, get bored, or otherwise stop watching the content but never bother unsubscribing because the algorithm recognized this and stopped recommending the channel's uploads to them.

Bluesky doesn't have this problem yet because it's so young, so the outsized follow counts are mostly going to be from doomscrollers and outright malicious users, but even if it was exclusively malicious users, there is no perfect algorithm to identify them, much less do so before they start causing performance problems. Under those constraints, it makes sense to limit the potential blast radius and keep the site more usable for everyone.
I spent quite some time on farms and while chickens are adorable, the amount of poop you have to deal with is going to be a killer to most people. So in the spirit of HN, and if this upward trend of eggs' price continues, I have 2 business ideas:

- Uber for eggs. One household in the hood does all the chicken chores and sale eggs very locally to only some small ZIP code. Of course considering cost on a small home scale, eggs would be most likely at 15% price of shelf ones. Also bigger farmer could not just come and order thousands at such low price because the owner would not have capacity.

- diapers for chicks. If you can invent cheap diaper for chickens then 90% of chicks pollution is gone. you still have to deal with food, water, etc, BUT the major turn off will always be amount of excrement they produce.

Considering the price of eggs today, if nothing gets changed and flus will prevail, these are a billion dollar ideas :)

Edit: unless of course someone is doing that already :) I haven't checked.
Russian Oligarch Held Stake in SpaceX Through Trust While He Was Sanctioned
Well, Trump does agree with you:

"When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything."
No, I've been trying to explain that this is a myth. A business has to charge VAT on everything they sell. This VAT is paid by the customer to the business and then by the business to the government. A business also has to pay VAT on everything they buy from other businesses. They get to deduct the difference between these two, and pay what's left. I will give you a very simple example:

Consider a business who only purchase products and sell them to consumers for a higher price:

Step 1: They buy inventory for a total of €1000. €250 of that is 25% VAT. They have paid a total of €250 in VAT.

Step 2: They sell inventory for a total of €1200. €300 of that is 25% VAT. They have charged a total of €300 in VAT.

Deducting what they paid from what they have charged, you get €300 - €250 = €50. They have to pay the government €50.

And this is for a business who only resells products with a margin. Normally a business tries to minimize their costs and maximize their revenue, meaning that the difference in VAT will be even bigger.

I urge you to examine these common myths with a clear mind. It doesn't matter if your family and uncles believe in them or if the people here on HN believe in them. What matters is when your business financials are wrong and you're loosing money unexpectedly because you have believed in something which isn't true.
I'm bearish on introducing noise[0] to resist traffic analysis, and I'm exceptionally bearish when the only layer managing noise injection is "a for-profit entity that can be legally compelled to do things"

But every layer helps; I'd feel more than happy torrenting over Mullvad alone, and I'd definitely use it as an additional layer of defense with other tools to keep me private if my threat model needed to consider stronger risks.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43109903
Joking aside, sorry you have to deal with this. I know how stressful nuisance neighbors can be. Best of luck on your upcoming move!
Well when you have a white supremacist on the dodge team (confirmed by his comments on social media) working in this team, and you know white supremacists are very hateful... then I would assume there's obviously risk.
> Presence in the DB allows for downstream fraud, even by accident.

That's like saying null columns in a particular database table must be filled in (or have the row entirely erased) because someone, somewhere, somehow, might infer the wrong thing about them, if they completely ignore all the other tables and business rules.

___

"Hello, I am Oldy McOldperson. Give me money."

"...Sorry sir, but that person would be almost 150 years old now, and that's well past our Impossibly Old threshold of 115 years. Furthermore, one our other databases says that person was reported as missing 90 years ago."

"But Oldy's--I mean, my precise confirmed date of death is still blank, therefore I'm alive, so give me money!"

"Sir, only a complete moron would believe that's how it works."
That's a definition of "vetting" that nobody else but you seems to have proposed. Feels like a strawman.
It was always vulnerable

Our constitution was compromised from the beginning and as a coping mechanism the government’s schools taught that as a benefit and compromise as a core value
Is this more access than 19-year-old summer interns in the various agencies get (to their given agency)?

Because it's not a foregone conclusion that it is.

At least not based on "according to an employee in senior leadership at USAID".
Pretty sure they’re doing this blitzkrieg because what they’re doing is illegal and if they don’t get it done quickly, they’ll get stopped by the courts and probably arrested.
For those who haven't heard, Kaze is the guy who optimized Mario 64's code, fixed some physics bugs, etc., claims roughly 6x speedup, so that he can make a mod / ROM-hack that runs smoother despite having better graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE
At the end of day Bond movies, Star wars saga, Jazz music, many sports culture or even Apple gadgets are great successfully marketed products. Now some people do take it as way of life and are deep into it, for them, it is not just some product. But for lot others these are just a type of movies, music, sports etc.
Why should they have before? It was local and you could just use it?
Our coop is impenetrable; we never lost any chickens that way. But they would get picked off during the day by hawks, coyotes, and bobcats. One every month or two.

We've given up and are switching to bantams in an enclosed run.
Ah, I remember a time 30 years ago when I logged accidentally into the PROD database (forgot to add the suffix "1" to the connection ID), thinking it was a Dev instance, and then issued a "truncate table CUSTOMERS"... the reaction came within 75 seconds - and restore from backing took several hours.
Not true at all. The reason that these scams have become a larger industry than the entire world-wide illegal drug trade is because of how easy and lucrative they are, and that's entirely on cryptocurrency.

By revenue, cryptocurrency is for crime. The couple of anecdotes about someone getting money out of Venezuela with crypto only help to legitimize a wealth transfer to criminals of historic proportions.
> Firstly, I should say, there's no "formula" here.

There are a lot of variables, and luck does play a big role. But with that said, there is something very akin to a "formula" at the high level. That being Steve Blank's "Customer Development" methodology, as laid out in The Four Steps to the Epiphany.[1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/09...
You just send out a generic decline, and document it as there's a better candidate fit for the role.

I'm not sure if you guys have been in charge of hiring, but there's no real alternative. In my most recent experience, we had one open position, and after interviewing 10 candidates, 3 of them were basically identical in terms of technical qualifications. How do you choose one over the other, other than the "vibes"? Anyone suggesting otherwise is either living in a weird alternate reality, or doesn't want to accept that working is a cooperative job and interpersonal relationships are very important.

There always will be exceptions for different type of roles and specializations, but that's not what I'm talking about.
The Matrix Foundation's goals and structure are described here (https://matrix.org/foundation/about/)

Element is a for-profit company, originally set up to hire the Matrix Core team and is the primary driver for many projects in the Matrix eco-system. Element cannot be successful without a thriving Matrix eco-system.

In the early days the line between Element and Matrix was rather blurred, which is why we set up the Foundation as a separate entity in 2018 to ensure that whatever happened to Element, Matrix could continue as an independent entity.
This is about when people starting realizing such farms are contributing to planetary environmental harm.

Also, as gruesome as a backyard slaughter might seem, it's nothing compared to the industrial equivalent.
Was thinking trying to look cool on a dating app
not so sure about that after the last few Daniel Craig movies, can't get much worse, they just need a coherent plot line, and need to stop doing multi movie arcs
A figurehead king or emperor also makes wannabe dictators look like usurpers , thus splitting the conservatives from the autoritarian base.
Now, what’s the <https://caniuse.com/> link to this feature?
They won't run out of currency, but the people that use it will run out of faith.
Also those identities can't collect checks, because if they tried it would set off alarm bells and reviews because they're over a standard "assume they're already dead" limit.

Imagine the brouhaha these same folks would be raising about "wasting your tax dollars hiring historians" if that other direction was in their self-interest.
The Curtis Yarvin utopian fantasy is no government coupled with mythical "network states". An uncontrolled experiment that's cynically really to defang the government to lower all barriers for the rich making more money.
> you’re selling to developers

That was my first thought. He's selling a piece of software to me, and I can patch the library in a few minutes to remove the branding and avoid paying $25/month.
I thought most were using Apache PDFBox these days. Anyone have any thoughts on how the two libraries compare in 2025? I'm particularly interested in programatic creation of PDFs.

I know historically PDFBox is a bit lower level whereas iText was a bit more user friendly, but that's not too big of a deal for me.
As tends to be the case, the ruling is nuanced.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-scores-win-suit-chall...

FTA: In her decision, Chutkan wrote that the states "legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight." But the judge said the states had not shown why they were entitled to an immediate restraining order.

That doesn't mean Elon was exonerated, it just means that an immediate restraining order won't be issued.

> So in good faith, i'd ask you, what is your solution to solve the fraud issue?

The question cannot be asked in good faith because it frames the discussion in a manner that suggests the concern here is one of fraud, however what we've witnessed by DOGE instead is arbitrary and partisan firings, as well as brazen falsehoods and mischaracterizations about the nature of what is being cut and the total numbers of what is being saved (by several orders of magnitude in some cases).

I don't feel the need to discuss an earnest plan about cutting fraud and waste because that is not what is on the table right now with DOGE. Further, I don't see any evidence presented to explain why the GAO and other bipartisan efforts to curtail fraud are regarded as ineffective. Simply stating "fraud still exists" is not an honest rebuttal, since fraud will always exist.
I didn't look close, but I'll bet a competent developer can remove the branding from your project (replacing with their own) in just a few hours. This perfectly legal and much cheaper than paying you $25. Sure the developer time might cost $100/hour or more, but getting your project through supply management and all the reviews will cost a lot more time and money than just doing it themselves.

You need to provide better value than removing branding is what I'm saying. There are lots of business models, but removing branding is not a good one.
Per https://matrix.to/#/!sWpnrYUMmaBrlqfRdn:matrix.org/$xga3TYyV...

> T&S staffing alone is about $360k/yr, and server and SRE costs about $240k/yr

And per https://matrix.to/#/!sWpnrYUMmaBrlqfRdn:matrix.org/$pupglsTX...

> There's a rough cost breakdown available to the Governing Board right now in Discourse, which we'll be polishing and publishing after our first Finance and Fundraising Committee meeting

So the financial report is finally coming together.

We have quite a handful of volunteers and a strong community that is helping us a lot already. But some things cannot be offloaded to volunteers (typically T&S and the SRE team running the matrix.org homeserver).

Can you expand on your doubts for the ability to execute? The Foundation has a narrow set of programs on purpose, and it's not implementing any server or client for example. Most of the budget is going to matrix.org and keeping it safe (which is a lot of invisible and thankless work).
The reason given that the SSA does not clean up the data is it would cost too much for little to no administrative benefit. They also don't want to add new inaccurate data to the system.

The no administrative benefit bit checks out with napkin math. Of the 18.9 million entries for people age 100 or older they are paying out benefits to 44,000. The total number of people in the US age 100 or older is around 90k to 100k, depending on time period for comparison.

There's an Inspector General audit report in a nearby comment for source.
Never Say Never Again probably shouldn't be used as an example of "the franchise". It wasn't produced by Eon or the Broccoli family as someone else owned the rights to that particular story.
To relevant authorities who are properly vetted? Feels like ouroboros…
But Democrats "play nice" and respect the law.

That's the problem with the argument that Republicans need to be careful about setting precedents that Democrats will then also abuse: no Republican believes that any Democratic president will actually do this. In fact, a lot of Republicans probably don't believe that there will ever be another Democratic president.
The intent is completely ill. DOGE is RAGE. Move fast and break everything before the courts can step in.
Federal Trade Commission Launches Inquiry on Tech Censorship
Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v'
From my own experience; as soon as I start thinking about revenue for personal projects, I start making the wrong choices.

Which makes sense, the reason I'm doing them in the first place is for learning, sharing and fun.

I believe the only way forward is to keep focusing on those aspects and let the rest happen by itself.

https://github.com/codr7/tyred-java
Exactly.

When Google shut down Stadia they refunded all purchases - both games and hardware.
Memory-safe Rust gains 45% of enterprise development
> I am sure he "saw" real returns on a very real looking app or website.

Exactly: "Hanes told Mitchell a confusing story. Not long ago, Hanes explained, he started investing in cryptocurrencies with the help of some people he met online. First, he and his partners deposited money on a reputable U.S. platform for buying and selling crypto. The profits were enormous, he said: He took out his phone to show Mitchell his account balance, which seemed to indicate that the investment was worth $40 million."
In addition to the money that's spent, these people had great health insurance. This helped to subsidize rural hospitals. Between this and cuts to medicaid, more rural hospitals will close.
A well run company that's owned by PE. That's an oxymoron.

PE typically raises prices. Replaces all good employees with the cheapest. Then runs up debt that they have no intention of paying back all under the guise of expansion.
Create a market of travel visas with quotas.