skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, as I said in another thread, I did not start out working in the Bay, and ended up here somewhat by accident. It shocked me how much easier it was to find good jobs here, and I'll stand by that. With that said, of course I say this with no judgment to anyone not in the Bay or other tech hubs, it's friendly advice from personal experience.

> Those jobs in the Bay Area mostly require you to “grind leetCode” and system design. They really don’t require you to know the latest frameworks, databases, Kubernetes, etc

Hmm, it sounds like you have a negative opinion of Bay Area jobs in general. I'm asking people to first figure out what work sounds interesting to them, and then learn the relevant skills. If you have the skills, the Bay Area probably has the right job, too. Of course these jobs also exist elsewhere, I'm not sure why I'm triggering this reaction...
Better picture, with tree climbers for scale: https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2009/09/redwoods.ht...
I think that harmful effects of radiation in places like that matter mostly in the context of life expectancy and the well-being of individual organisms (that may be unlucky to e.g. ingest some particularly radiating matter and quickly die), but not the general growth of the population. Higher cancer rates may not matter much if the organisms that get cancer can reproduce before they die. Compared to other types of pollution and other human-related dangers to wildlife, some level of radiation isn't that harmful to nature.
I didn't mean to nullify your experience.

You've undeniably right about how there have been spheres of influence where people and capital come together. Every area of the United States has some kind of forced name of "Silicon *" for a reason.

I just don't think this will be true in the future. Move where you want to, maybe have to work harder to break through, but that was also true in the Valley.
Amazing! Finally, the design of Rust is being used not only for interviews but also for bureaucratic reports, which is what it was designed for. Now, the bureaucracy within the team has improved and the bosses will be very pleased. A very useful tool.

I had an experience where a team of Rust juniors did whatever they wanted in a separate chat and the CTO, PM and I (Lead) had no idea what was going on. This tool would have helped. Now, I’ll focus on the code review to see how Rust's safety helped solve this issue. I think this will be a topic for a great new article about the power of Rust.
> With perhaps a storage limit of say 1k undelivered messages.

If you want this to scale you'd need a scheme to deal with limited cache per device. Something like having each device assign a random priority to each message it has in transit. That way everyone culls a different set when things fill up.

> would need a ttl, say 24 hours

Probably better off scaling priority by age. That way you deliver if at all possible, until it eventually falls out of cache. Some people will be able to dedicate much more storage than others.
Wait but that’s the point. It doesn’t have the information, it makes a best guess to match its training.
You asked why you may have been downvoted and I responded in good faith with my opinion based on what you communicated, that opinion is based on principle.

The statements I made are mostly an indictment of Mozilla, but it does include why your statement was wrong if you look carefully at what you wrote, its not about what you were responding to.

Here is the statement you made:

> There is no point in pulling down the certificate, it's only used by Firefox and there shouldn't be any valid use case to patch an old version to use the new certificate, you would just update your whole browser (it would be easier and safer).

Break this down. # AND #. One of the legs doesn't hold. Making this false.

There is no difference in meaning between "should not be" and "no" here aside from marking it as an opinion (should/ought) which can be contradicted by real use-cases.

A strawman argument is where you attack a lesser flawed argument than what was said with the implication or claim that it is the same as the first. This wasn't a strawman argument, it was about exactly what was said despite the gymnastics needed to parse your statements.

The quoted statement was your opinion, and opinion is "sentiment" you relayed. I don't see why you think opinion/sentiment here is associated with politics. It can be misplaced and false at the same time and unrelated to politics.

The information in the post was attacking the fact that Mozilla is attacking and removing resilient design, which is the first thing any operations person will look for. Single points of failure.

Nothing said aside from the fact that you were mistaken in that one small statement you made, can possibly be construed as attacking you.

Even then it is pretty wild to consider observations/statements that serve as basis for a proof by contradiction as a personal attack.

> ROTFL

You asked why, because you missed something. I answered and I really didn't have to.

There are SOP's in professions that are common knowledge. There is no assumption in these cases, and its standard practice to tag or preface statements that are common knowledge for those that may not have it.

On the developer side of the house, it is not unheard of to be siloed and not have common operational knowledge, what was said was reasonable.

Hopefully this sufficiently clarified for you why you may have been downvoted.

> if they are, that's on them because a browser is an app not a library.

The GPL has the intent and obligations spelled out. When you make and demonstrate a pattern of abuse through destructive or diminishing changes contrary to the GPL over time, you may risk violating it.

Taking actions that create the imposition of cost on legally protected rights within the GPL or inducing torturous interference through vexatious behavior is highly problematic and a question for the lawyers (IANAL).

Sentiment that its on the downstream maintainers to fix issues created upstream is highly problematic.
One of the culprits I encountered is that some of the IoT WiFi chips cannot do proper authentication if the AP is using WPA2/WPA3 mixed mode (very common for WiFi6 to increase security with modern devices while keeping backwards-compatibility). The flawed chips can initially connect successfully but disconnect after a few days.

Solved it by creating a dedicated IoT SSID advertising just WPA2 w/ AES and only on 2.4GHz w/ 20MHz (you shouldn't use 40MHz on 2.4GHz anyway for god's sake).

Here're some useful tips to tune WiFi for IoT https://www.wiisfi.com/#iotconnect
Like other quantum supremacy claims, it cannot be proved by others.
Was Sam Altman Right About the Job Market? Tech's Plan to Automate Everything
https://archive.ph/uEYf3
According to me they haven’t. I can make a youtube channel too if that adds to my credibility.
To me, it seems that Stoicism’s assumption—that everything is perfect and interconnected—shares similarities with, and might even originate from, Hindu philosophy or other Indian philosophies, which view ultimate reality as inherently perfect
> infrastructure, databases, data engineering

I work as a backend dev, without an opportunity to work on these at my current company. How do I learn and showcase these skills effectively.
Thanks!
Someone copied our GitHub project, added stars, and injected malicious code
> SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube: as the name suggests, it skips the sponsorships. I already pay for YouTube Premium, I’d rather not watch any ads, even when embeded in the video.

I really don't understand why YouTube doesn't mandate that content creators make a sponsor-free version for paying premium users. The creators already get much more money for a premium view. Personally I don't subscribe to premium for this reason; if I still have to run blockers (sponsorblock) to really block ads, I might as well run a full adblocker too. And it's not really worth the money then.

YouTube has been doing this a long time but there's more and more sites going like "support us and we'll show you less ads!". No, that's an insta-unsubscribe for me.
When +10-15% of work force is laid off it’s not due to boss key, but idiot bosses who don’t think ahead.

But on the other side Boss key do happen due to demoralized workers realize they are working for idiot bosses making bad decisions or being shitty leaders.
It just seems excessive for a name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll#/media/Fi...
SpaceX's Crew-10 mission arrives at ISS to relieve Starliner astronauts
I think security is within the purview of a browser. Even if I disagree with the implementation.

And AMP is not a browser feature.
Curious too. It feels like the maths parts of programming are the hobby (proof checkers, Haskell) and the cranking out Go/JS etc is the paid bit. I studied maths but never used more than high school level at work.
To be fair (not that they deserve it, and to be clear: I do agree with you 1000%), Cloudflare has been known to push crazy shit to production that breaks MAJOR browsers without seemingly noticing or caring, as in this story of my debugging a change they made which caused sites using one of their features to entirely lock up Safari (as in, the entire browser): https://www.saurik.com/cloudflare.html
> The example was in React but I don’t see how that prevents potentially using this with other frameworks or languages.

That's why I just maybe it still needs more time before seeking wider feedback: It's not just one example in react.js, it's basically all of the supporting arguments being based on react, with all of the examples in react.js.

Maybe they have a point, but right now the only support they for this proposal is react.js. A few examples showing the output in a few languages would help, which is why I say this needs more time to bake.
Tried it in mobile safari.
When i i highlight a word and then use one of the font controls, i expect the word to remain highlighted.
Also i can't seem to remove formatting like bold/italics by selecting it again.
Implementing "Tennis for Two" using op amps (2024)
I think no-one wants to self-host, so you will end up having to make a service offering hosting for the open source projects you create, so you end up the same SaaS situation as before, but the code is open source. Great situation, but still not moving away from SaaS to self-hosted.
Car line is a choice. I park a block away and walk to the school to do the pick up. Waiting in line to avoid walking is stupid and lazy.
What do professors do (1995)
That really depends on the use case, does it not?
I made this website to create funny online translator with AI for free
it is a playground for bringing translation fantasies to life!

Why settle for boring "Hello→Hola" when you could have "Hello→Arrr, me hearty greetings to ye, landlubber!"

With just a few words, you can:

- Create quirky translators using simple natural language

- Transform text into pirate-speak, Shakespeare-style, or whatever you dream up

- Share your creations with friends and watch them smile

try create some translator and let me know if this tool has made you happy - -!
Would be fun to plug this up to an LLM and see how absolutely unhinged it lets itself go over long runs.
A related "existential" observation that I had when exploring these as a teenager: what's further in always seems exciting. Then, when seeing it up close, the appeal immediately disappears, only for the new "far away" bits to appear more interesting.
Maybe you like this one better: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lsX3W4
How many of these were actually addressing scaling EBMs though? I'm guessing none.
Answer to your first question: yes, even if it means paying such companies and, if necessary, additional tax lawyers, as income is taxed rather brutally in my home country.

Thanks for your input though, this is a valid concern and important to consider: amount of potential tax saved and citizenship.

Advice to all US citizens considering this: take a look at the power of passports, it can go a long way. Here is one of many sources to check: https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
If we're discussing companies willing to go to lengths to scrub you from their GitHub history, they can still replace all commits you've signed with new commits. You likely have no legal rights to that work, and git does allow you to rewrite history arbitrarily.
> one of the best texts on Galois Theory I have read

What book on group theory or abstract algebra would you recommend to read first to be able to read that text on Galois Theory?
"Fork the repo (whatever that means)" I lol'd
So, yeah, yes he was.
Humans can speak before they can spell or read. That could be a way to learn a language.
The problem with this is that they usually have no idea about international set-ups and many of them are just interested in making money (unfortunately a lot of people are, because money is a very important aspect of our lives).
It was a fiasco because it led to the repo being DMCA'd
You can be as snarky as you want but the reality is we're years deep into a market cycle that has seen a tremendous amount of capex with very little visible return.

How much more productive do you think claude makes you as compared to Google or Stack Overflow? 15%? 50%? 200? Do you think that's enough to satisfy the market or are we all trading on unrealistic expectations? Do you think shareholders are going to like it that they're losing billions a quarter so Anthropic can run a service that helps you write web dev projects marginally faster? Do you even understand the amount of value that's tied up in these questions having a good answer right now?
Just installed this. Very amusing.
I think on a glance it looks more realistic than those so-called "hacker terminal/screen/whatever"

:D
Realistically, you need to bootstrap your experience in these areas. Pick an area to focus on and put your own time into learning it. My rule of thumb is that you need about 100 hours of personal study to get to "smart intern" level in a particular tech skill, given that you're already a professional developer. I typically bootstrap a skill by picking a textbook to work through and combining it with personal projects and adjacent reading as it comes up. Usually after ~100 hours or so you will be able to arrange an internal transfer to work on that stuff in your day job.
Read the comment again

> The problem is that smart people are the ones being employed, not the ones getting rich.

Employed is a key word. Generalize the point beyond Jane Street if you're still having difficulties. Such general understanding will be necessary if you want to work somewhere like Jane Street.
So no evidence, just more of the cutting edge, widely followed, paper-thin theory of inevitable evil.

> There are indicators, for example, the neanderthals and all other human like great apes have mysteriously disappeared except for us. (Or gotten assimilated, I mean, we have a tiny bit neanderthal DNA)

That's not an indication at all. It's an outcome.

> Also look at how violent humans are to their own species.

Humanity has grown to 8 billion organisms - the evidence seems otherwise.
I'm clearly missing something, despite the minimalist explanation.

So, this is my bug report. I'm not going to explain more, because this is a minimalist bug report.
Watching that looks like something out of a movie you wouldn't think is real. That looks terrifying.
I'm still curious about the measurement "on a molar basis". If you have 20 moles of methane, and you process that to separate out the carbon, you'll end up with 20 moles of some form of carbon and 40 moles of hydrogen gas, right?
I'm so glad it's written in Rust! You know, for performance and safety and discussions at the coffee machine.
They must abide by treaties, so no they don’t get to build relations with whoever they want. The canal’s handover came with requirements. If they don’t want to uphold those, and treaties mean nothing, why would their sovereignty be respected? But I do agree soft power is better and that the US government has poor strategy here and in general.

Also I’m not sure what you mean by “huge trade partner”. Panama isn’t even in the top 20 trade partners of the US.
Those absolutely are in the context, given they already had a document that was ready to be signed and _expected_ to be signed if Zelenskyy even took the trip. That is also the reason this got so public, it was NOT supposed to be a negotiation but Zelenskyy just faux pa'd hard.
> You could also say that atoms are a construct, also molecules and nuclei.

You could say it, but they are real things that interact with the environment. DNA is a real thing that interacts with the environment.

Species, the periodic table, etc. are constructs. They are useful because they help us understand the world.
"Since"? US was isolationist for a large part of the war. It's their underlying policy. Sure they do sometimes deploy to get oil from the middle east and such, but that is quite different. As was the whole libya thing, concerned about the gold dinar, not some leader figure.
Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
https://archive.ph/2025.03.15-224826/https://www.newyorker.c...
I both want and worry about this. I genuinely hope this does not become as effectively mandatory as having a smartphone.
Rumors of some sort of Russian sonic weapon being behind the "Havana Syndrome" have been going around for years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COWTBEl1rRc

Serbia has been Russia's closest ally for decades, with Russia having its side in the wars of the 90s. Perhaps such a weapon would have been provided to support the current pro-Moscow government.

Alternatively (and more likely) the Serbian government could've simply bought an LRAD device from the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device

Which
I think I first encountered the boss key concept in Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris where hitting the ESC key would bring up an officious looking spreadsheet.
No it is quite simple, driven by a president who prefers simplicity. You might be detached well though, given you just state that with zero elaboration as you can't produce one.
I would love for this to be the case!
"It works on my computer" is actually an ok claim when you have only one computer of that type
Fun how you project your own lack of source diversity on others. Fox I see as much as I see any other legacy media. X is just a platform though, and is the best in not hampering speech so I do read it more than Reddit, which I would prefer not be so hard left nowadays as I like the site's structure more.
My rule has always been very simple: If you are goofing off, don't hide it. The worst thing you can do if you work for me is think I am stupid and pretend you are working. I'd rather someone say "My head just isn't in it right now", which is honest and something that happens to all of us.

I understand the need to unplug every so often as much as anyone. There are days when my brain just isn't in sync with what I have to do. Pretending you are doing work is insulting.

BTW, I didn't come up with this idea. This rule was given to me by a former boss when he hired me. The idea stayed with me as I launched and ran my own businesses.
Ask HN: Apple, Google, Samsung wallet, why aren't there any better alternatives
I'm trying to wrap my head around why there isn't a wallet app that auto selects card to pay based on the merchant you are paying yet. Most people I know have 5+ credit cards and only use one card to tap everywhere not bothering about rotating rewards on other cards that could give them better cash back. Why they have other cards? So that they can have them on standby and use them incase they have to make a bigger purchase.

So I why didn't someone tap into this market? Because I know banks make same if not more money even if customers avail these extra rewards. Whats stopping apple or google from adding this feature. Whats stopping anyone else from entering this market and competing to tapping into this niche? Because it is totally possible given visa master card and amex provide the APIs for it and there is virtually not much technical magic needed to pull this off.

Would you use a wallet that could

1. Auto-select card that gives you maximum rewards at a given vendor/merchant
2. Suggest a better card based on your spending pattern
3. Auto-select card based on your spending pattern (sometimes accumulating points and buying planes tickets is much more lucrative)
4. More interesting UI than Google Pay/Apple Pay

Would you use this service? or even more, pay 25 bucks a year for this service?
When you check the results change
Maybe we should work on solving that problem, then? And maybe this is what working on that problem looks like?
> what are we talking about here?

We're talking about "if the government turns up asking for your decryption keys, ...".

> Where has this happened?

Pretty much everywhere. Even in the US you can only avoid it if you're careful; if you admit to knowing the keys then you can't. Either way you're dealing with the "criminal prosecution process" as GP pointed out.
You are missing the whole point. Regardless of the deal, Zelenskyy acted the wrong way by even attending if that was his line. He tried to make the whole thing a media spectacle and make everyone look bad. Shame is on him.

US's underlying line is to be isolationist, see other comments here. "Duty" to be world police LOL
> They really don’t require you to know the latest frameworks, databases, Kubernetes, etc

The latest "framework, databases" are constantly changing. Being good at leetcode and system design is a better signal (ofcourse, not perfect) than knowing specific tools.

Being good at system design implies you are aware of tradeoffs across various systems, and that coupled with willingness to grind means you can at pick up new tools and probably deliver on projects. I have used 13 languages and an equally absurd amount of tools across 4 orgs in my 5 YOE at FAANG. It's constant learning, or you're out basically. Doesn't make sense to quiz on anything specific. The interview process is quite fair actually.
Google is officially dumping Assistant for Gemini
Imagine being so detached from how humans interact you expect to be able to "disprove" such an obvious signalled deal with a news article
This is terrifying, all that during a calm protest. I hope the people will stay strong, this is exactly what they are up against.
That old MacOS UI looks so appealing. I want to use it and I don't care that it's low-res, black and white. I love that they created what seems like a texture in the window titlebars, I assume to give them physical-like presence and to encourage grabbing them.

I don't want to use my computer's UI; it's just necessary and slightly annoying in its aesthetics and cognitive load.
Your comment comes off as "people pay, therefore it has value." Which the inverse would need to be true in that case.

But you are conflating money and value. As you stated, raising children produces value, and as you imply, this is not generating revenue. Which you are also conflating exchanging money with generating value. Sure, liquidity can generate value but don't confuse these things.

People seem to be forgetting that money is a proxy and that a proxy is not the same as the thing you are proxying.