skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social Security receives payments as well as makes them. SSNs are keys for both.

The “super old person” SSN numbers are in the DB mostly because non-citizens are using them to pay into the system. If you delete those numbers, the next payroll run will inject them right back in.

And you would remove important accounting metadata for each payment. Metadata that is consumed by the systems that prevent fraudulent payments from going out.

The only way to stop the fake/bad SSNs is to go into the field and address each instance with employers. This is time-consuming and expensive, which is why no one has done it much.
Those engineers have chosen where their loyalty is. It may not be of their making, but they are eagerly supporting it.
> put up with shit like this that doesn't even happen in industry

Musk did a trial run with it on Twitter.
>to put up with shit like this that doesn't even happen in industry?

The C-suite never bring in hatchetmen? What world do you work in?

> Sure there are sometimes mass layoffs that are handled pretty badly in industry, but not these Gestapo-like purge tactics that are clearly designed that way to instill fear and loyalty.

Isn't the difference here that in the private sector you have to do all that loyalty shit from day one, not just whenever the board restructures and you want to keep your job?
yeah it says on that page "Due to limitations of the OpenGL Core Profile with the WebGL renderer on most platforms linewidth will always be 1 regardless of the set value." anyway yeah I was trying to be snide
What's the point of Chrome-only css.
I did a couple of rounds of this with my manager as the interviewer. Personally I really liked the process, and the feedback I got from the candidates was positive (but then again it always would be).

What worked well for me was that I made it very clear to my manager, a man who I trust, that I would not be able to provide him with a boolean pass/fail result. I couldn't provide him any objective measure of their ability or performance. What I could do was hang out with the canditates for an hour while we discussed some concepts I thought were important in my position. From that conversation I would be able to provide him a ranking along with a personal evaluation on whether I would personally like to work with the candidate.

I prepared some example problems that I worked for myself a bit. Then I went into the interviews with those problems and let them direct those same explorations of the problem. Some of them took me on detours I hadn't taken on my own. Some of them needed a little nudge at times. I never took specific notes, but just allowed my brain to get a natural impression of the person. I was there to get to know them, not administer an exam.

I feel like the whole experience worked super well. It felt casual, but also very telling. It was almost like a focused date. Afterwards I discussed my impression of the candidates with my manager to ensure the things I was weighing was somewhat commutable to what he desired.

All in all it was a very human process. It must have taken an enormous amount of trust from my manager to allow me the discretion to make a subjective judgment. I was extremely surprised at how clearly I was able to delineate the people, but also how that delineation shifted depending on which axis we evaluated. A simple pass/fail technical interview would have missed that image of a full person.
Here's another question - stereotypical Japanese interviewer, interviewing, back-to-back, a stereotypical Indian and a stereotypical German for the role. Both are capable and equally technically proficient. How do you choose, other than looking at the team you're hiring for, and thinking how the person would fit in?
We've never had an executive whose financial policy positions include eliminating FDIC and that much of the federal deficit is fraudulent so can safely be disregarded and left unpaid. Believing in continuity at this time is a poor bet.
The interesting thing is how it becomes harder and harder over time to draw a line between what human brains do and what these models do. Once you have seen chain-of-thought reasoning in action (does the book even cover that?) you realize that defense of human superiority is strictly a "God of the gaps" game. Arguments that work today won't hold up tomorrow, because they're built on unreliable definitions, special pleading fallacies, obviously-temporary tech limitations, and general hand-waving.

It's not that the technology is magical or special, it's that we're not. That being said, finding new ways to study the nature and limits of cognition and consciousness after 2000+ years of unproductive navel-gazing feels very magical and special.
It's a local minima. The big journals were bought up in the 70s and 80s and scientists were hoisted on their own prestige petard. I get the Chesterton's fence thing but this is not a case of that.
Matrix Con 2024 had a public sector track where various organisations such as NATO, the French Government and the German Healthcare industry outlined the problems they are solving with Matrix.

Though in short, as a large public institution, being able to self-host a secure and decentralised communications network is highly preferable to needing to rely on a centralised service administered by a company in a foreign jurisdiction.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl5dnxRMP1hX5u7TZ1FNa...
This further emphasizes a need that is only growing: addressing the disparity between our government's reliance on technology and its members' understanding of it. Government and technology are inexorably linked at a fundamental level. Take data for example. Data is inherently untrustworthy if sufficient measures are not taken to ensure its integrity while being recorded, its integrity while being maintained, the integrity of its interpretation, and the integrity of its further utilization.

We need political pressure to design these systems correctly to avoid "god mode" nonsense, and for that we need politicians who understand and embrace the technological need. If the system is designed correctly you don't need "god mode" access to conduct an audit or even to make lasting changes. Their changes should be non-destructive writes, with an audit trail.

Also, I'm going to need more information than "god mode". God mode over which specific databases? And what specific access levels? And which admin granted the permissions? If DOGE is serious about transparency they will communicate this sort of thing.
Ask HN: Need hallucination detection? Add to prompt askin LLM to not hallucinate
In our real-world use case, that can effectively reduce the hallucination
Ah, I see. Seems like there's a bunch of 2D cruft in the graphics hardware that hasn't been touched since 3D became possible.
Put another way: If 99% of the animals you see on a day to day basis are pets and not livestock, it's hard to not think of all animals as potential pets instead of resources.
It would have been better for the government not to collect all this information in the first place. For decades libertarians have been warning about the scenario we seem to find ourselves in.
How do the use-cases for Obsidian differ from Zotero?

* https://www.zotero.org
Hey, cancers have DNA too! We should outlaw removing tumors!
Russia's nostalgia machine works for strongman Putin
Show HN: WinCse – Integrating AWS S3 with Windows Explorer
WinCse is an application that integrates AWS S3 buckets with Windows Explorer. Utilizing WinFsp and the AWS SDK, WinCse allows you to treat S3 buckets as part of your local file system, making file management simpler. The application is currently in development, with plans for additional features and improvements.
So, while you're almost certainly right about the impossibility of enforcement, I imagine many big organisations would purchase licenses anyway because they fear any minor risk of not doing so. Indeed, your Enterprise [0] page lists a number of big orgs with decent outlays.

Do you anticipate those companies to keep purchasing Obsidian now that it isn't a mandatory purchase for compliance?

(As a huge fan of Obsidian, and someone who personally purchased an Enterprise license to use within their company: god I hope so.)

[0]: https://obsidian.md/enterprise/
I grew up with backyard chickens. It was great, but youre missing one downside: the smell. Chickens shit a lot. Also, the predator thing is understated. You don’t just need defenses, your defenses are likely to fail. If this happens, you may wake up to the sound of your pet being mauled to death and your yard covered in feathers.
Life is filled with grey scales, if you only see things in black or white you are not looking hard enough. Abortion may be a tragedy. Having to give birth to an unwanted child may be a tragedy. Having to give up your child because you lack the capacity to care for it may be a tragedy. Growing up as an unwanted child may be a tragedy.

Abortions are a way to provide choice to people in tough situations. We have built a world where a lot of people are unable to care for their children in a decent way. In my opinion, that is the crime here.

Blaming these people and calling them murderers, or forcing them into parenthood is just cruel.
Isn't this the whole point of Rorschach tests? They are controversial, but still have professional support.
I laughed. Thank you for that
> Who out there is paying more than a total of $3-$5/month more in eggs?

You don't think a family of 4 can get through a dozen eggs in a single meal?

> I can get a dozen eggs from Walmart right now for $5.46.

This is literally your least expensive option and it's over the arbitrary $3-5 range you yourself defined.
Probably enough for 90% of such folks to be tormented quite effectively during childhood.
Question: mullvad doesn't traditionally support any of the streaming services (netflix, etc.). Since Obscura is using mullvad, does that mean it also won't?
Farm Action letter Figure 2 description:

> Biologically, it takes between 3 and 5 months to grow replacement lawyers, from their hatching to their productive stages.

Impressive growth rate for lawyers. Editors take much longer to grow unfortunately
I loved the idea of code reviews interviews, i've had several good ones, until yesterday when I had my first bad code review interview.

They asked me to review a function for a residential housing payment workflow, which I'm unfamiliar with. From an actual snippet of their bad production code (which has since been rewritten). In Go which I've never used (I've never professionally used the language that doesn't have error handling built-in, for example).

I had to spend more than half of my time asking questions to try and get enough context about Go error handling techniques, the abstractions they were using which we only had the import statements to and the way that the external system was structured to handle these requests to review the hundred lines of code they shared.

I was able to identify a bunch of things incidentally, like making all of the DB changes as part of a transaction so that we don't get inconsistent state or breaking up the function into sub functions, because the names were extremely long, but this was so far outside my area of expertise and comfort zone that I felt like shooting in the dark.

So just like any other interview style, they can be done very poorly.
Humane acquisition: HP offers big raises to some, others laid off
> People fall for scams all the time, and as a society, we are failing to educate them with the sense to sniff them out.

One of the companies I work with recently started looking at partnering with this company: https://scamnetic.com/

I like the idea of providing better education about scams to consumers, but this company gives me some pretty weird vibes. I wonder if we're on the cusp of another security theater boom similar to the plethora of companies that sprung up around identity theft and mostly seemed to exist to allow companies to mitigate any responsibility for their poor data and security practices.
Meta completely restricted graph data access to requiring a specific business purpose and managerial approval tied an articulable, concrete task need.
Hello, founder of Ory (https://github.com/ory) here. I‘ve spent 5+ years writing code, never thinking anyone would pay for it. Today, Ory is a healthy business but the road there was extremely stressful.

I‘ve felt the same as you many times over, and I have had bad experiences along the way. In the end it still feels that it was worth it. I get to own and work on things I enjoy.

For me, taking on VC capital was the stepping stone for today‘s success, but that was necessary due to the complexity of IAM and the system criticality it has (single point of failure). It’s essentially impossible to do something like Ory without outside money.

Generally speaking I felt that libraries are harder to monetize than APIs, but looking at your website you already have a service! Monetize the service, keep the OSS free (but maybe don’t make everything OSS).

One thing we open source people are bad at is valuing our own work (because we publish it for free). But experience has shown me that people are willing to pay if the service is valuable enough even if you can get it for free otherwise. So many companies spend 100k, 200k, 2M ln bad software. Why should they not spend 100k with your good product?

If you don’t want to have a boss and don’t want to live on someone else’s terms (yes VCs, customers and others tell you what you SHOULD do, but you can still do it differently and they will applaud you when it works), keep doing what you‘re doing and don‘t be afraid to ask MORE money for it, not less.

To get to 250k to support yourself, you will have to sell a lot of subscriptions. So maybe the value lies elsewhere? Integrations, customization? Number of form fills? Bot protection? Your customers/adopters typically tell you what‘s valuable - but don’t do it all for free!

Looking at your repo it has some traction, but you probably need to build it up a bit more with marketing (wether that‘s cool new tech, or just posting it in the right places is up to you). If you have a couple of companies that are interested in using it and need support, sell them support for 10k, 20k, 30k a year and learn what they need, build it, and sell it to them again. Why build stuff for free if the customer is making money with it?

I believe you can do this!

If you are bootstrapped, don‘t try to mimic typeform subscriptions will only work with sufficient capital and a lot of upselling. Self-service subscription selling is hell and requires huge infra and marketing budgets. Try to find a couple of customers that pay you well and expand from there.
Are the companies that want you to do hobby projects and take home test paying close to FAANg level or closer to enterprise Dev level comp?
To me this is such a weird wish. Why would you not want to care for your home and the people living there? Why would you want to have a slave taking these activities from you?

I'd rather have less waged labour and more time for chores with the family.
The Amazon Appstore is a steaming puddle of absolute crap for the most part. I have a Fire tablet I play some simple games on, they're all chock-full of ads. Very few mainstream apps are available, though plenty of cheap knockoffs of those apps are. If you want something good, it's easiest to grab the .apk and sideload it. There are ways to install the Play Store but they're likely beyond most of the Fire's userbase. Regular Android users won't notice or miss this nor should they.

If I needed a tablet for anything serious, I'd buy an iPad or Pixel Tablet, both of which come with a real app store.
Very cool, I can see myself wasting lots of time on this. :D

It took me longer than I'd like to admit to find the "View" button. Maybe make the title of the repo a link as well?
> Grok 3 performs at a level comparable to, and in some cases even exceeding, models from more mature labs like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. It tops all categories in the LMSys arena and the reasoning version shows strong results—o3-level—in math,....

"Math"? Fields Medal level? Tenure? Ph.D.? ... high school plane geometry???

As in

'Grok 3 AI and Some Plane Geometry'

at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113949

Grok 3 failed at a plane geometry exercise.
You fall and break something.
The relevant government in this case is New York, isn't it? Aren't they under the control of the opposite party from the federal government right now?
Even if they did go bankrupt, it's ridiculous that apps bought through that store would suddenly stop working. The mobile software industry way too closely ties applications to these "stores." Imagine if Ace Hardware went out of business and then suddenly my drill and hammers disappeared or stopped working!
If you are self funded it will be much harder to do free or freemium.

If you are funded it’s a way to build trust.

If you’re looking for ideas don’t build a generic form tool. Ding places where forms are so horrible according to the words of strangers who have to fill them out or better yet deal with submitted forms - ask to learn more to see if you could help.

The amount of time and salary you save is what it’s worth.

Two books I highly recommend checking out is software as a science (it’s recent and relevant) as well as the saas playbook (yellow cover). These will shed some light on how the 97% of entrepreneurs who do not or can not raise still find a path to success.
> networking

reminds me of a time I went to an event on meetup, I think I made a new friend so we meet up later together at a coffee shop he starts asking me what I know about marketing... I'm like no way... is this (makes a pyramid shape with my hands) guy stops talking
I wouldn't call sideloading the play store and services "easy", especially for Kindle Kids/FreeTime profiles.
Probably the most powerful man in the world right now openly self-identifies as autistic. Obviously there are very many autistic people who get treated very badly, but I don't think it's reasonable to say that the average person "hates" autistic people.
I think it might be this one?

https://caniuse.com/selectlist

The blog post says that "we're excited to see this feature progress through working groups and standards bodies" but doesn't link to anything that would help figure out which standard this ostensibly implements.
Zotero is a file manager with support for research-related tasks like indexing and bibliography generation, Obsidian is a programmable notebook. They can both be used "for research" but they're fundamentally different products.
The intent is to dismantle the federal government.
I hadn't considered that. My best guess is that it was originally an intentional decision based on consistency with nouns that people might have mid-sentence that they can't rely on autocorrect to capitalize properly.
No I might not. In these similar situations, I will use sqlite, unless someone can point out one of the items listed above as a reason to use something else.
Like many of the other commenters, I have no code to show. I'm strongly motivated at work to solve problems and create correct, performant, maintainable code. I appreciate a job well done.

Outside of work, I just don't have the motivation to code anything. I don't have sufficient at-home problems where code will fix them.

In an interview, ask me anything! ... except to show you code on Github.
Elon Musk Is Focused on Doge. What About Tesla?
You don't know the elasticity of the market. I can imagine restaurants, food producers and consumers are very eager to get their weekly box of eggs. So even a 5% drop can cause a price jump that's way more.
Previously discussed around coverage around Hane's sentancing 6 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314542
The point of Chrome-only CSS (vendor-prefixed features) would be to allow Chrome or any other vendor to expose styling functionality to CSS authors in valid CSS syntax in ways that won't impede future standardization efforts (like writing non-standard CSS would do) or interfere with that same CSS being processed by other vendors.

But this article isn't an example of Chrome-only CSS, this is about a change to the standard select element to make it customizeable in a standard way. It's not fully frozen yet, so they're seeking feedback and still working on it, so if you have input to give about this feature I think they'd welcome it. This blog post was about Chrome introducing experimental support for it, likely so developers can experiment with it and provide more valuable feedback towards its standardization!
Who do you trust, the Party, or your lying eyes?
Do not let yourself code if you’re good at shipping and learn the rest.

Or spend one week building and one week in market learning and getting feedback on it.

This has worked well for me.
Based on what I've seen of Sabine, virtually all of this post is lies. She regularly positions herself as an outside skeptic and critic. Do you have any examples or her claiming authority or representing consensus?
Lack of empirical support does not imply empirical support of no insight. In fact, it seems like you can reasonably draw whatever conclusion you please with about equivalent (zero) evidence. Calling these "myths" seems like a bit of a stretch—perhaps "popular conception" might be more accurate.
> I’m sure DOGE is not just hiring random bums off the street

The fact that there isn't any transparency about their hiring process is a big flashing red light that there was no hiring process.

These people are against DEI "because we should only be hiring the best, not focusing on race/etc."

So be transparent and show the damn receipts to prove you hired the best. Who did they screen. How was it that Big Balls beat out a pool of qualified applicants.

I'll wager they can't show their receipts because they don't have them. These anti-DEI people really just want to lazily revert back to a good ol' boys network, hiring only from their in-group or just hiring the very first candidate they personally like, regardless of their actual qualifications. The hiring process went something like this: "this kid was recommended by some billionaire's brother-in-law, and he went to an elite school so obviously he's qualified. The End."
McNuggets are 45% meat (specifically: Chicken Breast Meat) -- at least they are in the UK, where they have to give out this information. Presumably the US recipe is at least similar.

https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/product/chicken-mcnuggets...

I'm sure there are many traditional Italian meatball recipes, but as one example, I had an AI convert the US measurements from Chef John's recipe, and it estimated 900g meat and 494g other ingredients, so 65% meat.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220854/chef-johns-italian-...

Of course the ingredients differ in a lot of other ways than just the percentage of meat. That's just what I looked at.
> The threat of litigation — and Musk’s advisory role to Trump — has been a topic of conversation among some advertisers as they decide whether to return, according to several ad industry sources. While few believe X’s product or ad offerings have improved in the past year, marketers are weighing the possible downside of ignoring X and what that might mean in terms of retaliation from Musk.

What crazy times we live in. I’m not even sure the proper term one would use to describe a situation like this.?
Faggin started the 4004 in '69 and Hoff was pushing off the bat for it to be more than a calculator chip so it could be used as a general purpose processor. So they might not have specifically been 'dreaming of controlling a toaster', they and others were clearly dreaming about similar control tasks, like printers. They wrote the history down, first person...you might check it out.

Or, gee, was the comment intended to tell us how you tied an onion to your belt in 1969 (which was the style at the time) and made toast as the good lord intended without any newfangled chips in the way, up hills both ways, and we should all get off your lawn? /s