skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I was thinking about doing something similar just the other day given all the shennanigans going on with ghost jobs.

There's a lot of time wasted individually by candidates vetting companies. For instance I've had to resort to using OSINT techniques and public records to weed out fake jobs because my cold interview->conversion rate is abyssal (1:1000+).

I've seen companies and positions being advertised where when you look up the secretary of state info, its either been shut down/suspended, or the directors/owners listed are dead people (i.e. semi-recent obituaries +- 1 year). The positions posted are always newer than the deceased person. I've also seen a lot of business info posted resolving to a UPS store address. Definitely presents as red flags when looking.

It would be useful to be able to crowdsource a lot of the due dilligence that must be done individually that could easily be automated as well as see the average turnaround time before rejection, and identify job postings that continuously roll (identical and reposted every 3-6 months)
It is in 2025.
How long ago was that? I've been seeing consistent progress on bugginess.
The biggest timesaver for me so far is composing complex SQL queries with elements of SQL I don't use very often. In such cases I know what I want, but the specific syntax eludes me. Previously solving that has required poring over documentation and QA sites, but finding the right documentation and gradually debugging is tedious. An LLM gets me farther along.
I enjoy YouTube but the algorithms get a little crazy after a while. I solve this be deleting my history every month. The algorithm then falls back to channels that I subscribe to or similar channels.
time to try ladybird haha
It is when the POTUS is a Fox News addict who actively enjoys the appearance of impropriety...
Yes? There are plenty of stories of exactly this happening. People see a kid walking on their own, call the cops, who scoop up the kid and charge the parents with child endangerment because they were "abandoned". Get unlucky, and CPS will be involved.

On the other hand, child kidnapping by strangers isn't really a common thing. The vast majority of kids going "missing" just did something like going over to play with the neighbour's kids without telling their parents, and the remainder is taken by their own family. Of the roughly 800.000 kids going missing each year, only 100 or so are genuinely abducted by a stranger.

So no, a child being more likely to be abducted by a cop than by a stranger isn't as strange of a claim as it may initially seem.
Some things can only be done at scale, or are a side effect of solving problems at scale. It’s not quite so simple as “big is bad”.

Also, it’s harder for international companies to buy, say, Google, than a browser-only company, just through the amount of capital needed to put up a credible offer.
I have seen horrifying use of Redis where I inherited the maintainance of an application whose original developer implemented his own home grown design to manage relationships between different types of key value pairs, pretending like they were tables including cross-referencing logic; it took me a week to just add test cases with sufficient logging to reveal the "schema" and mutation logic. All this with the non-technical manager wondering why it took so long to make the change which directly dependended on understanding this. To top it all, the code was barely better than spaghetti with less than ten lines of comments across maybe 5k LOC. The irony was that this was not a latency sensitive application - it did data quality checks and could have been implemented in a much more cleaner and flexible way using, e.g., PostgreSQL.
Pgserver: Super easy pip-installable Postgres
If he had smuggled items there could be safety implication and yes even medical implications (eg if he was boofing an iPhone)
That's assuming Putin would use nukes in case Ukraine succeeds in winning back their territory.

Which he won't do if mutually assured destruction is credible. He's not going to destroy the world including himself and everything he loves for Ukraine.

Once there are doubts that use of nuclear weapons will be punished, then all bets are off.
It starts by not shipping Electron garbage, and write browser agnostic Webapps.
Haha that's me. My wife has a photo of me mixing concrete while on a call.

Same re productivity tools. I just use text files to write things down - extremely high level, never in detail. Always seemed like a waste of time tbh.

I feel like I don't even know why some days I can focus, and some I can't. It seems to be completely arbitrary. Sometimes I'll have the most perfect conditions and it'll be impossible to start working.

But I've never, not once, managed to work with the TV on.
Google has to sell Chrome, a completely optional browser, and stop supporting Firefox, the best Chrome alternative, while Apple is allowed to completely lock down iOS without allowing installing alternatives to Safari, or any third party app stores. Not to mention that Apple for years exploited its dominant market position in the US by resisting messaging RCS Android compatibility, and pressuring teens into either buying into the Apple or ecosystem or risk being socially ostracized from incompatible group chats. It seems to be more that a double standard.
I don’t think most people would willingly allow someone to implant an electrode into their brains that could influence what they think with the world’s largest corporations pushing the button on the other end.

It sounds too invasive. To violating. Too extreme. Too much power in the hands of the button holder.

But this is effectively what we’re doing with our phones and watches in particular. It’s one of the reasons I’ve disabled notifications on almost everything.

The electrodes aren’t necessary.
There's an article that explores the metrics here:

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/08/11/how-many-undetec...

> 0.04% of papers are retracted. At least 1.9% of papers have duplicate images "suggestive of deliberate manipulation". About 2.5% of scientists admit to fraud, and they estimate that 10% of other scientists have committed fraud. 27% of postdocs said they were willing to select or omit data to improve their results. More than 50% of published findings in psychology are false. The ORI, which makes about 13 misconduct findings per year, gives a conservative estimate of over 2000 misconduct incidents per year.

Although publishing untrue claims isn't the same thing as fraud, editors of well known journals like The Lancet or the New England Journal of Medicine have estimated that maybe half or more of the claims they publish are wrong. Statistical consistency detectors run over psych papers find that ~50% fail such checks (e.g. that computed means are possible given the input data). The authors don't care, when asked to share their data so the causes of the check failures can be explored they just refuse or ignore the request, even if they signed a document saying they'd share.

You don't have these sorts of problems in cryptography but a lot of fields are rife with it, especially if you use a definition of fraud that includes pseudoscientific practices. The article goes into some of the issues and arguments with how to define and measure it.
I think the whole custom sort DSL is swinging the pendulum back a bit too hard. People just want a deterministic sort, with no injected ads or hate-bait, from exactly the people they follow, with the ability to apply basic filters on top of that. You know, the old default, the one that was designed to be useful, not to extract maximum ad dollars from people’s eyeballs with vacuum tubes.
I have DeepSeek and Qwen running on my laptop and home server. I'm pretty sure neither my laptop nor my home server are in China.
Uh in the early days porn was even less restricted online than it is now. You could grab it at many websites and on Usenet (which was still very common in those days). There wasn't even a "Yeah I'm 18+, stop bothering me" button.

Only the quality was worse but that was purely due to technical constraints (no streaming video)
Exactly, the encryption didn’t prevent unauthorized copies.
Pedantically, there's nothing stopping them from doing it the way CFN does it: dispatching on the value's type:

env:
AWS_REGION: us-east-1
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:
valueFrom: ...

CFN even goes as far as having two ways to pull off that stunt, magic prefixes and objects

Properties:
ImageId: !Ref MyAwesomeAmi
# or
ImageId:
Ref: MyAwesomeAmi
# or cursed "{{resolve" syntax
ImageId: !Join
- ''
- - '{{resolve:ssm:/aws/service/bottlerocket/aws-k8s-'
- Ref: EksVersion
- '/x86_64/latest/image_id}}'
# which ends up being "ImageId: '{{resolve:ssm:/aws/service/bottlerocket/aws-k8s-1.31/x86_64/latest/image_id}}'" and then *that* gets replaced by the CFN service at provisioning time
Carlson is doing his own thing now, he got fired from Fox in 2023.
For me it works pretty well for python scripts that pull data from somewhere and do something with it. Even the code quality is quite ok often. But for larger complex projects it doesn't work for me. It produces a lot of unmaintainable code.

But I can easily see a not so distant future where you don't even have to look at the code anymore and just let AI do its thing. Similar to us not checking the assembly instructions of compiled code.
https://chatgpt.com/share/67cca4ac-2a38-8000-9901-9f56219c06...

… was curious what Gpt-4.5 would do with an absolute paucity of context :)
Built on Lovable? Looks neat. If yes, how was your experience? Did you have to customize much by hand or did it take care of most of the work?
chrome no longer supports effective ad-blocking extensions.
appearance? :)
https://archive.ph/7IjfU
Hot: A Height Optimized Trie Index for Main-Memory Database Systems [pdf]
First I don't believe this is an effective remedy to break up a Google monopoly, but I have no influence on the DOJ.

I'm curious though, if Google can no longer pay browsers for search engine traffic what is the business model that will sustain development and advancement in the space?

How does a non Google owned Chrome support itself and continue development?

What happens to all the applications that rely on Chrome extensions?

As much as I dislike Google behavior, I don't see this as being a good thing.
Perhaps Apple is next?
disabling history on YouTube disables short feeds and recommendations on the home page. It takes 10 seconds and has saved easily thousands of hours and mental sanity.

Also, if you ever want to revisit a video, just use chromes history, but you'll find also this rarely happens if ever.
If you look carefully at the Chromium project, it’s made up of teams that specialize in different components. The majority of the members of those teams are in turn Google employees. Presumably they have the best qualifications to be on those teams. I don’t see how a DOJ decision against Google would change any of that. Ban Google employees from participating in the project? And then who would replace them?
I wonder if it is going to be proprietary-licensed (like their macOS version) or Free Software?
That is what I am describing in my second sentence. You get it in addition to having citizenship of a EU member country, but you can't get it by itself (which is what the comment I replied to implied).
I think it's now at 1% $6.3M of $650M revenue which is a lot for a CEO failing to keep the company viable from a clearly obvious eventuality.
Kagi is cool and all but...

I'm in Europe. I'm busy disengaging from US based services.

Any good EU alternatives?
Offshoring as the supposed death of the US software developer going on 40 years now remains greatly exaggerated.
Google is just incompetent at PR and legal. That is how Epic won against Google and lost against Apple, even though Android is far far more open than iOS.
Ukraine didn't have nuclear weapons. America does, as do many others, which is largely why none of them have put boots on the ground beyond "training". If they did, they would actually be entering the war, and nuclear weapons are back on the table.

That's also the reason why Alaska and France are safe, why Iran wants nukes, and is the best argument against disarmament you can find. The cat is out of the bag, and the attempts to put it back are starting to leave scars.
If we simply adjust the clock back half an hour every month we can eliminate leap years.
I have not stopped referencing Stack Overflow (though I have almost never asked questions there). I still find it more helpful for exploring approaches and ideas than an LLM. An LLM is most helpful when I definitely know what I want, I just don't know the specific incantation.
Try https://wiby.me/surprise

A lot of the sites there are pre-2020 era but some weird and wonderful stuff!
YouTube for me as a search results never a destination. And my search browser is anonymous. It clears all data when I exit. If I could "like" content without logging in I would - but I can't.
Firefox does, though. There really aren't these wild and crazy speed issues with it at all, even with fresh out of the box defaults.

The only time I've had to touch about:config in the last several years was due to some smartcard related bug caused by an external library, that forced me to tweak firefox's behaviour. Once that bug was resolved, I switched it back.

Firefox being slow is well into the self-perpetuating FUD territory.
I recall it being claimed that Mozilla has the warchest to survive at typical spending levels for quite some time, without Google.
Capable is a interesting word choice. Capable means something meets a bare minimum for success. A and B are great. C is fantastic. D is arguably first class. E is capable. When making a free choice, I want the best one, so any lackluster review feels like one of those southern backhanded compliments, getting the message across without insulting it in polite company. Capable perfectly describes my feelings towards Firefox and Safari.
Small discussion (15 points, 5 days ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43248261
Filtering out extraneous screen taps from tubby toddler bellies
I've liked things about macOS Orion but some key extensions basically only work with Chromium browsers. That's not really on the Orion team, Chromium has a bunch of stuff neither WebKit nor Gecko support specifically around the file system and in-memory blob sizes
I am not sure why you are being downvoted. This just means existing OS monopolies of Apple and Microsoft are given entire control of their kingdoms with no web landscape to challenge them a teeny tiny bit.
Incompetency is a blessing for users.
People who think they're too busy need to make time in proportion to the money involved. I read a news story about someone scammed out of the price of a home because they were on holiday and too busy to be suspicious that the realtor suddenly emailed to ask them to send the money to a different account.
How to classify that fraction? Let's say D. Gukesh (current chess champion) plays and learns chess for 50% of his time awake. Would you consider Stockfish to be a superintelligence that accounts for 50% of basic task wrt D. Gukesh? What if tasks (like some types of entertainment) usually are not relevantly attributed to intelligence at all? I would love to find answers to the questions but find them difficult to the point of being too vague to answer.
Meanwhile, Republicans are pushing for a $4T debt ceiling increase and $4.5T in tax cuts. The impoverished and ailing will suffer from missed social security checks, medical debt, and loss of EBT while the rich will be eating caviar on those “savings.”

If you’re looking for fraud, waste, and abuse, it’s right there.
I try to keep a few things in mind whenever I'm arguing with somebody that I think are helpful (hopefully):

1. Most arguments come down to defining words, even if you may not realise it.

2. Don't follow rabbitholes. Don't deviate from arguing your core premise.

3. You're not trying to prove the other person wrong, you're trying to find the truth.

On #1 for example; I watched a video of a conservative arguing liberals (or something) about a few premises, including "gay marriage does not exist". It was immediately clear to me, but apparently not to the people in the video, that this guy has a different definition of "marriage" to me. That's the breadth of the disagreement. That's all people should've argued with him about. But not one person did. Even when he described his definition of marriage, and how his premise comes about from that definition, everybody immediately became sidetracked. There's just no chance of finding common ground behaving like that.
You don't have to check the assembly instructions of compiled code because armies of compiler engineers sweat the details of making damn sure that every single step of compilation is done by algorithms that are correct. And they fail often enough.

I'm not saying that what you claim is entirely impossible, but it would require some major inventions and a very different approach to how ML is implemented and used compared to what's happening today. And I'm not convinced that the economics for that are there.
Does it even configure caddy? I can’t see how the caddy config could be generated from the env.yaml (unless it relies on the directory name etc for the path).

Seems like something that could have been solved with just docker compose (by setting a remote DOCKER_HOST). If you need “automatic” proxying, then traefik can do it off container labels.
> If a malicious actor can leverage these commands, it means they already have control

Have control, or had control at some point in the device’s lifecycle?

e.g. if an upstream supplier leverages these commands to put the device in a vulnerable state (either intentionally or because of a supply chain compromise) prior to incorporation into some product, is this not still an issue?
That is not what is happening. I use Android, Chrome, and Google Search because the alternatives are quite poor. All of those things work better with alternatives than any competition. Android is the most open mobile OS, Chrome is the most open and non-coercive browser, Google Search works great with all other OS's and browsers.
I am a huge proponent of ideas like using SQL to directly implement business logic. When you bring the logic and the data together under the same abstraction, things will begin to click that you didn't even know existed. Business logic expressed as SQL commands can be stored as yet more data within the same schema. This opens the door for reflection and other features you would ordinarily only think to look for in advanced backend languages.
Really? Are you suggesting you getting solid 9h on full charge, while developing on Windows+wsl??
That's very hard to believe, but if that's true color me impressed.
I get no where near that (albeit older hardware).
I disagree, in the past I've seen positions where they may sit on applications for a month or more. One of my last jobs actually ended up being one of these, and we went through 9 different interviews (over 2 1/2 months after that) before I was hired at the time.

Its not so cut and dry.
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/search-engines
Or Russia or Belarus or Georgia.
Instant, universal, and immaculately-fair is the real impossible standard. Your line of thought has long been in the arsenal in defense of inaction

let's permit the firefighters to leave the firehouse even though they can't tend to all the fires simultaneously
> When using Cloudflare Workers as an API server, I have experienced requests that would “fail silently” and leave a “hanging connection”, with no error thrown, no log emitted, and a frontend that is just loading. Honestly, no idea what’s up with this.

Yikes, these sorts of errors are so hard to debug. Especially if you don't have a real server to log into to get pcaps.
How does the logic “apply equally”?

It’s only rational to start a nuclear war if a country faces a direct existential threat: i.e. a significant percentage of the population will be killed or conquered and enslaved. The perceived outcome of nuclear war (widespread devastation) has to be preferable to what would happen otherwise.

Conflicts over territories at the far fringes of a great power’s sphere of influence (or desired sphere of influence) obviously don’t meet the bar. If it’s trivial to call your bluff, it’s probably better not to bluff.
Prison already is psychological torture.
I've seen these in canada, especially at family resturants. Kids seem to love them.
I believe you just discovered cdktf https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk#cdk-for-terraform

Also, I couldn't search for samurai in order to know if it's "jinja2 for $other_language" or what, but I just inferred that you wanted a templating language to generate terraform files
Lol so different. When i was young (<10) I'd often take the train to another city alone. To visit it, or to see relatives. It's not super common where I'm from but it's surely tolerated.

I'd often see train conductors asking why I was alone and then going "ok, fine" though they would keep an eye on me usually.
> Chinese tech companies are not competing outside China with one notable exception of TikTok (1) .

This is absolutely not true. Most phones in Africa are Chinese now. Chinese internet companies are all over Asia outside of Japan/SK. Chinese cars (EVs, which arguably are tech), are now world-wide.
Yup yup, him.
All the people who work on Chrome would go with it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph

One of the major recurring themes of r/discworld is that so much of the amazing ideas in Discworld were actually real things.
Since they already reference Technology Connections in the article, and since this is a great essay but not new ideas, let's also call out other important voices - in particular Shoshana Zuboff's "Surveillance Capitalism", Cory Doctorow, and the many others who have put their backs into helping us understand how these sick systems work.
The issue with community-based/crowdsourced features as well is that you inevitably have some bad actors that join up to poison your features.

If the noise floor threshold is too high, the signal you are looking for can't be differentiated.
I actually understood the jargon fine. It just felt like a puff piece.
An LLM is not a compiler, where extreme pains are taken to be correct and consistent. LLM coding output will not always need to be checked, depending on the use case, but it definitely will not be consistently correct across all use cases.
Isn't that because Google doesn't want them upsetting their advertising business. Breaking up seems like it will help this
Nice, tried with a scam text I received today. 95% sure it was scam.
I have read up a lot on Marsalek over the years. Not quite genius maybe, but definitely able to found a highly successful software development company while in high school, for example.
I would add that I've never gotten anything particularly insightful in return...but it has pointed out somethings that could be written more clearly, or where I forgot to cite a particular standardized measure, etc.
I wrote this, it seems to be making the rounds again :)

Previous discussion when it was published: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074861
Maybe just don't use social media in general. I do have an X account which I want to delete. Other than that I don't have FB, Instagram, Tiktok or anything similar.

Social media is a cancer. It only benefits those who have the money to power the algorithms.