skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How many people applied to your last advertised tech role?
I'm just curious how many applications people are receiving for open positions. What kind of job was it and where was it located?
> Like, nobody watches a video filmed at 60 fps and then watches their favorite TV show or a motion picture at 24 fps and says "the jitter was so jarring". And that's at less than half the rate we're even talking about!

Those have motion blur.

> Similarly, even if you can tell the difference between 60 and 120 Hz

I don't know why you're phrasing this so oddly doubtful? Being able to tell the difference between 60hz and 120hz is hardly uncommon. It's quite a large difference, and this is quite well studied.
I get bagged and tagged at least once a week when I go shopping in the UK in the last 50 years. You don’t want to come here at all. I’d rather hang around in Russia these days.

Facetious comment aside the only time I’ve had problems with border security anywhere is getting a large carpet back home from Azerbaijan. This was very interesting and required them to examine every square centimetre of it. China, US, UK, Europe all really boring. Russia was incompetent. They didn’t even check anything at all (2012)
I submitted at least one patch to putty some time ago and it was such a nothingburger I don't even remember what it took. Somehow it neither baffled nor infuriated nor even annoyed me a little.

All these complaints and critiques sound like so much baby crying over nothing to me.
> Many people go on holiday to de-stress.

A friend of mine that has kids said that once you have kids, there's no such thing as going on vacation. You're just being a parent somewhere else.[0]

I personally am skipping the side-quest of parenthood, but have certainly seen his claim play out. My wife and I were at Universal Studio Hollywood, and some couple had a baby in a carriage that wouldn't stop crying, and I just couldn't help but think...imagine spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars to go on vacation, and you still gotta deal with a screaming baby.

I couldn't deal with that.

[0] For anyone saying "Just let the grandparents/some other family take them for the week", this isn't an option for everyone for various reasons. In my friend's case, it's because he lives in London, but his parents live in the USA, and his in-laws live in Malaysia.
Threat to UK Nuclear Deterrent
There's a ton of applications for AI. Back when I was at Spotify, I co-authored Basic Pitch (https://basicpitch.spotify.com/), an audio-to-midi library. There are a ton of uses for AI outside of what's heavily publicized.
welcome to the economics of efficiency, curtesy of the smartest men on the planet.
I already posted this another time, but I think this book deserve to be more known.

Peter Van Roy, Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, 2004

It uses the language developed in this book (Oz).

The book constructs many of the current programming paradigms, starting from almost nothing, with an emphasis on software design.

See the paradigms poster built http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng201....
> The core piece of information is that she misrepresented her wealth in the original article.

She does not misrepresent her wealth in her article. At no point does she claim to be scraping by. She states upfront that she has a gainfully-employed husband and a child and they live in Brooklyn, that she has $50k stowed away in an emergency savings account, and that she's been a financial columnist for the NYT and NYMag for around a decade.

Is it possible that such a New Yorker could have all those things while barely making in the middle-class? Sure, but an easy assumption in New York, and even Chicago, is that such a person is provided for means beyond their job income, e.g. maybe she or her husband worked at Goldman Sachs before their current careers, or come from rich families.

I too assumed that $50k was too big of a cash draw for any non-business account, but it didn't seem like a stretch to imagine that she fit the bank's profile of a wealthy customer (esp. at her young age). Patrick knows far more about the financial system than I do, so I have to assume his skepticism was founded in what he thought were widely applicable hard-coded rules and policy. I wish he would have spent a fraction of his word count telling us the assumptions/knowledge about bank rules that he had been misinformed on. Because this year-long multi-thousand dollar fraud investigation of his couldn't have just been because he didn't imagine a NYMag financial columnist might be wealthy?
It had been honoured — or at least not directly violated — for 20 years. And in international affairs, 20 years is "forever."

Between 1918 and 1938, how many treaties were signed, broken, rewritten, and ignored by how many powers?
Funnily my Boost for Reddit app also using a personal API key has stopped working today. Hopefully I'll be able to fix it but it'll be pretty sad if not.
It's completely disgraceful what the U.K. is doing to freedom of expression.
Very happy to see Apple like this.
I’m so bad at spelling.
I am going through Math Academy and I like it very much. I have done advanced technical work in my field but my math background had weaknesses from my public schooling in a large urban area and some experimental math instruction in high school. The ability to do it over is oddly exhilarating.
silicon valley invented managerless misery without even knowing
Yes, it works.

In my opinion, you always learn more when having fun...
How to Ship Perishables: Best Practices from Livestock Farmers and Ranchers
Have you heard of Jevons paradox? That says that whenever new tech is used to make something more efficient the tech is just upscaled to make the product quality higher. Same here. Deepseek has some algoritmic improvements that reduces resources for the same output quality. But increasig resources (which are available) will increase the quality. There will be always need for more compute. Nvidia is not in trouble. They have a monopoly on high performing ai chips for which demand will at least rise by a factor of 1000 upcoming years (my personal opinion)
Considering how many things are less complicated than Pokemon, this is very cool
> People can ‘git clone’ my code, and there’s a web-based browsing interface (the basic gitweb) for looking around without having to clone it at all.

I host my own public Git repositories, but statically--read-only, no HTML views. I don't want to run any specialized server-side code, whether dynamic or preprocessed, as that's a security vector and system administration maintenance headache I don't want to deal with. You can host a Git repository as a set of static files using any web server, without any special configuration. Just clone a bare repo into an existing visible directory. `git update-server-info` generates the necessary index files for `git clone https://...` to work transparently. I add a post-receive hook to my read-write Git repositories that does `cd /path/to/mirror.git && git fetch && git --bare update-server-info` to keep the public repo updated.

In theory something like gitweb could be implemented purely client-side, using JavaScript or WASM to fetch the Git indices and packs on-demand and generate the HTML views. Some day I'd like to give that a try if someone doesn't beat me to it. You could even serve it as index.html from the Git repository directory, so the browser app and the Git clone URL are identical.
What if your desktop fails?
Talos has something about Wireguard, but I never used it in the k8s context
So do you also buy your kids iPhones so they won’t feel like second class citizens with green bubbles?

Would you buy your kids $150 Jordan’s or whatever the equivalent is today so they would be part of the in crowd? Say it’s okay to do drugs because if they don’t they won’t be part of the crowd?
the whole idea of immigrant deportations is expensive, regardless the route.
Might want to try learning scripting/shell scripting. Automated/flexibile/multiple ways to 'git' it!

Advanced ideas provided as indirect guide/way to learn how to get up to speed.

Starter ideas that one can do stream the workflow with git/shell scripts -> automate conformance to code documentation/formatting; notify relevant reviewers via email notice.; customized log(s); email/regenerate developer documentation references; check-in automated testing (aka fail any of the test, need to go back and work on things before updating with 'git'); set up self contained developer docker to place retreived git stuff in so don't screw-up local machine/allow for consistent development environment between developers.

example reference links culled from search engine search "git and shell scripting":

git/shell automation : https://jishnun789.medium.com/git-automation-using-shell-scripts-e420767df36f

advanced bash-scripting guide : https://github.com/rootusercop/Free-DevOps-Books-1/blob/master/book/Advanced%20Bash-Scripting%20Guide.pdf

advanced git course : https://indico.cern.ch/event/1334738/contributions/5814285/attachments/2833252/4959870/git-good.pdf

advanced git tutorials : https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/advanced-overview

how to learn linux shell scripting for devops : https://devopscube.com/linux-shell-scripting-for-devops/

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alternatively, while learning emacs/emacs shell, practice/re-enforce emacs/lisp/scheme with something other than more traditional sh/csh/etc.[0]. :

or more fanatically modern, dune shell (bash/lisp)[1]; babashka[2]; scsh[3]

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[0] : lisp as a shell : https://www.cliki.net/Lisp%20as%20a%20shell

[1] : dune shell : https://hackaday.com/2024/09/20/get-your-lisp-on-with-the-du...

[2] : babashka (clojure shell & book) : https://github.com/babashka/babashka

[3] : scsh (scheme shell) : https://github.com/scheme/scsh

emacs geisesr support for scheme shell : https://github.com/rmloveland/geiser-scsh

scheme ideas for shell : https://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/comments/3as8yr/scsh_collection_of_links_related_to_the_scheme/?rdt=53022
The trackpad on my Macbook Air stopped working after 2.5 years. The Apple warranty in only 1 measly year. Apple wanted nearly £500 to fix it. Caveat emptor.
Did the owners know they would be served ads when they purchased the car? That’s not clear to me.
That's a shallow, post-WWII vision of history. The US used to build great cities, then it bulldozed large parts of them to build the present highway-oriented dystopia. If one radical change was possible then, so is another, now.

The car-centric, suburb-centric culture cannot be sustained economically or ecologically, and will therefore come to an end. How do we want that to happen - intentionally and progressively, or catastrophically?
While not being very actively mined, Czech Republic has large Uranium reserves & provided a lot of the initial soviet uranium after the soviet sponsored comunist coup:

https://english.radio.cz/czech-radioactive-dillema-8109837
https://www.suro.cz/files/2021-03/Uranium%20mining%20history...

I guess lots of this could be restarted if there is demand ?
This sounds like something Douglas Adams would have written about.
...doesn't tinder probably produce more babies than no tinder? I can see you making some point about dating culture or whatever, but at the end of the day more sex must still resolve down to more happy accidents!
from page 108:

Removing 840,000 animals from 4.5 million leaves them a good 3
million short of extinct. But Texas tick fever has an 81% death
rate.11 Removing 81% from 4.5 million leaves just 855,000.
Shooting b 840,000 of them leaves N 15,000, which is a lot like b
25,177 (Fig. 1)

Their own conclusions was that absent hunting, there would have been around 855,000 bison that year. Hunting reduced the remaining population after tick fever by 99.2%! Ignoring this is the equivalent of suggesting it was not an iceberg that sunk the titanic, but a lack of buoyancy.
Maybe there'll be some trickery they can do in future versions with the AC to lower air pressure in the cabin, so the occupant(s) pass out, and can't attempt to mess with the cars "mission" anymore.
Is the society that relies on everyone else to make the decisions that serve their best interests free either?
Lynx pre-dates Mosaic... "As of 2025, it is the oldest web browser still being maintained"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
if you can pass Google interview, you can pass it anywhere else. Try it again, just like with lottery

and Gogel is no longer a top employer, not from career perspectives, not from learning, not from a total comp
> (talking about gates and Epstein) …This is extremely significant because it substantially increases the amount of specific, known meetings between the two, and shows that they were meeting on specific dates late into 2014—after, in fact, the relationship had caused conflict between Gates and his then wife, Melinda French Gates, which would ultimately end in their divorce.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-we-knowand-dont-knowabo...
If skynet just made a ton of terminator fembots they could kill humanity just by pairing with every male on the planet. No bloodshed.
> Because it's cheap.

I doubt that the US is buying from Russia—you know, the country/government which it threw sanctions on in all sorts of ways—because "it's cheap".

Recently a ban on importation was started, and it included a couple of billion for more processing facilities in the US:

* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/climat...

It's a supply chain issue that took some time to sort out:

* https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-nuclear-fuel-agreemen...
Well yes. But he also claimed that Poland had attacked first.
The leap from intel to the M series chips really left everyone else behind. I can't even use my 2019 Macbook anymore it feels so sluggish.

I have an M3 Pro and it blows all my old computers out of the water. Can handle pretty insane dev workflows (massive Docker composed environments) without issue and the battery life feels unfair. I can put in an 8 hour workday without my charging cable, I don't think I have turned it fully off in a few months, it just chugs along. It really embodies the "it just works" mindset.
Only a few of the real players in this are old, even if they're the original source of the money.
Agree that they are on to something. I gave a tech talk about them a while ago at work and said that I think they are on the cusp of providing a consumer VPN product that appeals to mainstream consumers. The Apple of VPNs, everything "just works" and is easy to understand.
Yeah, enjoying the process definitely helps. I just found that when it came to actually speaking, I still struggled despite using apps for a while. Have you tried practicing with real conversations too, or just apps?
Again, when we're talking about warfare, there is a strong economic and industrial dimension. Unless the scope of your warfare is limited to extremely fatalistic worst-case scenarios.

Russia was on the ropes in many ways because of the cost of the war they're waging, while Ukraine was in a stronger position because of aid and promises of future rebuilding investment. If push comes to shove and there's a European conflict, Germany has a (horrifically) proven track record of war production.

I'm also baffled by the claim that Germany is a distant second to France in terms of military. Germany doesn't have any need for a carrier because they don't have colonies/former colonies they want to "work with". Germany does however spend more than twice what France does on their military budget, although in GDP terms France spends more... alas France has a much smaller GDP. Germany has a slightly smaller military force, but only about 19k or so.
Yeah we destablised a whole nation (ok much more than one) just to secure a supply of bananas.

"From 1954 onward Guatemala was ruled by a series of US-backed military dictators, leading to the Guatemalan Civil War which lasted until 1996. Approximately 200,000 civilians were killed in the war, and numerous human rights violations committed, including massacres of civilian populations, rape, aerial bombardment, and forced disappearances"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PBFortune
> As long as demand for bitcoin goes up, the price goes up.

And as long as the demand for Bitcoin goes down, the price goes down.

There's nothing magical about scarcity. The amount of Enron stock certificates issued was finite, but I'm not sure buying them would have been a good idea....
> You can use the `resign` command to compensate for the changes you made:

How does that work? Did someone figure out AMD's private keys?
Determinate Nix 3.0
How do you know this model is the same as in the blog post?
> When you drive, you still see billboards with advertising. When you take public transit, the buses and the trains can have ads inside and outside.

I regularly complain about both of those things to all of the relevant political and transit authorities.
I selfhost tailscale with headscale, I used a helm chart in a k8s cluster, works great.

I ran into a corporate network recently that blocked the Tailscale DERP servers.
Also part of their culture/identity. A good thing i believe.
Are those numbers with power saver mode turned on? For what this laptop is being used for I don’t need much muscle and would rather need to charge less frequently.
Apple will lose, because the government didn't break any law.
You'd be fine with _domestic surveillance_ as long as it's kept within country? The average jurisprudence of a UK citizen is mind blowing to me.
This fantastic speech points in that direction. This is the type of rhetoric that can rally Europeans behind France

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1j46edt/we_are_figh...
A 3 year reservation of a P5 is over a million dollars though? Not sure how that's comparable....
Yeah, 512GB was a game changer for servers... with DDR3...

And that wasn’t even where it topped out, there were servers supporting 6TB of DDR3 in a single machine. DDR4 had at least 12TB in a single (quad-CPU) machine that I know of (not sure if there were any 96*256GB DDR4 configs). These days, if money’s no object, there exist boards supporting 24TB of DDR5. I think even some quad-CPU DDR2-era SKUs could do 1.5TB. 512GB is nothing.

(Not directly in response to you, just adding context.)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/the-end-of-an-era-de...

Current models at the time of the announcement may still be produced and then inventories depleted, but those will be the last of them.
I'll keep that in mind next time I sign a contract: "I commit to honouring it until I don't".
Beyondcorp was mainly created to advocate cloud services and to minimise the (legit) worry off CIOs to see all their data in services connected to the entire internet.

I still think VPN has a good usecase. It's great extra layer of defense and also a nice way to disclose access to devices at different locations.

I don't use tailscale as it's too commercial for me but I use another VPN mesh service. Of course you still need to secure your endpoints properly.
AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right
AI Succession by Rich Sutton [video]
America's First Unmanned Fighters Are Here: YFQ-42 and YFQ-44
That is so lame of them. Image having to watch an add before being able to turn on heated seats.
How is an exploration of broad spectrum legislative attacks on all forms of encryption regardless of hosting and corporate ownership and data communication moot?
> Yeah, I don't understand how it is so prevalent in the self-hosted community.

Not just CGNAT but not having _any_ external ports open can be a beautiful thing. I used to have an ssh port (not on the standard 22) and the amount of auth attempts back then was insane. I now have a full firewall zero open ports but, thanks to tailscale, I can still safely access my machines while not being at home with zero unauthorized attempts.

And since I am a security person, I use the tailscale lock feature so not even tailscale themselves can add nodes to my network. Even if they had a breach.

I am a very happy customer.
Go panic isn't really usable as catch/rethrow because it can only be done at function scope. To make them useful for that pattern, you need a scoped `try { }` block where you can tell what part failed and continue from there. Either that, or you need lots and lots of tiny functions to form scopes around them.
Even if you grant that perception of the US (which UK at least has explicitly stated it doesn't agree with), it doesn't resolve the practical obstacles where different member states don't necessarily agree on military action. One good example came up just today; France and the UK want to deploy peacekeeping troops to Ukraine to enforce a ceasefire, but Italy does not. In a unified European military, does Italy get a veto, or does the command structure somehow require Italian divisions to deploy somewhere the Italian government doesn't want them to go?
> Size is irrelevant because UUIDs are meant to be used as is (see my other comment). `b210cdca-5d10-4c2e-a604-0fdd9502f02b` has no intrinsic meaning as a number 236689833926310967579631802650001076267; every parsing and formatting against UUID can be done bytewise for that reason.

I don't understand your point here. Either there's benefits to representing them numerically (size, speed of comparison, etc) that can be realized w/ MP's extension types, or we can just leave them as strings and MP supports everything you'd want to do with them. What's your issue w/ MP here again?

> CBOR does support such "private" tags (starting at 80000) if you want anyway

I really thought this too, but I can't find it in the spec. The spec links to a big ass list of tags [0] which, holy shit haha, what is going on here? "YANG bits datatype"? "Gordian Envelope"? "Bigfloat with arbitrary exponent"? "Extended bigfloat"? What on earth supports any of this? Anyway, can you link what you're looking at?

Later: Oh, I found it! It's in the big ass list of tags. Although I don't think it's really official? I read through the linked email thread and they don't mention the port range. They seem like they settle on using 1010 and then switching on data after the tag.

> And that's your claim, not the verifiable fact.

You're not seriously claiming CBOR has anywhere near the usage of JSON/XML/HTML.

> CBOR API is rare mainly because CBOR is new

CBOR is over ten years old. That's not new.

> Needs for binary JSON were always high

Where are all these binary JSON APIs? Is there a list anywhere near as large as this big public APIs list on GitHub [1]?

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I've been nerd sniped by this enough so I'm gonna quit following these threads. I want to leave you with the fact that I've been right about everything all along, and that the world would be a better place if everyone just listened to me always. Good luck out there.

[0]: https://www.iana.org/assignments/cbor-tags/cbor-tags.xhtml

[1]: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
Virtail Rail Network Architecture for AI Workloads
As a kid we learned about the hole in the ozone layer as well as acid rain in LA, and how it was reversed by changes in human behavior. Talking to younger kids today, they act shocked at the concept of acid rain as if they no longer discuss it. I'm sure that's as designed by the climate deniers in government positions. I can only imagine it getting worse over the next 4 years
I’d consider a socially positive action to render those screens inoperable.
Not sure about your use-case, but nowadays i don't do anything fancy with my laptop.

So far I've decided that going forward I'll likely be getting a cheap baseline laptop (curretly eyeing a 16gb/512gb macbook air m4 or the upcoming framework 12) and then get some beefier desktop to remote into. i don't even need a gpu, the heavy stuff i do largely revolves around running virtual machines.

I did most of my work in a screen session running emacs on a 48cpu/192gb ram machine in a previous job, and I did some tests and remote desktop nowadays is pretty good (way above the "usable" threshold).

> That is essentially doubling the $999 cost.

yeah, it sucks.