skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this a few years ago and the winning recipe was a shameless (i.e. deeply shameful) linkedin post where I pretty much just summarized my skillset and explained that I was looking for a senior engineer equivalent of a summer internship, with no chance of extension.

Got me 3-4 offers. None of the offering companies had ads out for roles like this, so this was pretty much the only way.
I'd believe you're better off working on yourself.

Maybe do toy projects for your potential portfolio, learn an additional skill (AI?), and build many weekend projects until something sticks.
You could make an alias for creating a new python script that adds your favorite libraries as dependencies:

alias newpy='function _newpy() {
default_deps=("rich" "requests");
uv init --script "$1" && uv add "${default_deps[@]}" --script "$1";
}; _newpy'
> Pila is funded by venture capital firms.

You don't have to answer if this is too intrusive.

What's your runway?

I can't speak for others. In my case, I need to know a company is going to be around for a minimum of five, and, ideally, at least ten, years before adopting certain types of products.

For example, while I love the idea of SPAN, there is no way I am ripping out my panel to install one until it feels just as safe (long-term support, reliability, maintenance, safety, etc.) as, for example, the choice to buy SMA solar inverters or APC UPS systems.

I think this product might fall under that category. Well, let's put it this way...it can't be a flash-in-the-pan product that will cease to have support in a year or two.

The tech world is littered with products from companies who got enough funding to get to launch, only to have to survive on sales in a "paycheck to paycheck" fashion, which, in hardware, can be incredibly difficult. I speak from experience on this, so, not throwing stones from a glass house...I've been there and have the scars to prove it. Doing hardware is brutal, which is why most VC's go "poof" and disappear from the room when you mention hardware is involved.

Again, I know this is a tricky or undesirable question. I get it.
Starlink puts "internet shutdown" in the hands of just one asshole oligarch.
Show HN: I'm 6 months late, but I made a Natural Language theorem prover
Last year, I built a theorem prover in Ocaml for propositional logic: https://github.com/ArnavAgrawal03/ProveML. After the release of structured outputs, I thought it would be fun to see if we could turn natural language into propositional logic statements and use the theorem prover to answer queries more deterministically.

In my limited testing, this actually works really well! I feel there's a lot of potential in employing LLMs as a "frontend" for more deterministic backends (such as theorem provers). Would love to hear your thoughts - would you use something like this if deployed to production with wider support and nice APIs?

I'm also interested in thinking of this as an alternative to regular RAG or knowledge graphs - though using a resolution-refutation based theorem prover would make retrieval a lot more expensive
AI and the Face of Fear – Context Adds a New Dimension
When Gruber talks like this, sh-- is really bad.
Dang, and I can't edit it :(
Wow, very smart!
Florida mayor seeks to evict cinema for showing Oscar-winning documentary
My favorite fact about steam distribution systems is that they can be used for cooling, using either a steam-powered compressor or using adsorption refrigeration.

At least the former seems to actually have been employed or at least studied as an option by ConEd in NYC: https://web.archive.org/web/20071008014254/http://www.coned....
I just launched a smart alarm clock designed to be placed across the room
It's pretty cool being on Hacker News and seeing some new science in a field I briefly worked in. The principle scientist on Punch is Craig DeForest who I met a few times at various geo and heliophysics conferences. It's awesome to see he and his team are still out there doing new science.
Tracking satellites is computationally intensive, Starlink has many satellites, and friends generally don't jam friends' communication satellites.

The old jokes about aggressive NFL Copyright enforcement would really pale in comparison to Spain developing a mature anti-satellite capability in order to disrupt soccer broadcast piracy at the physical layer.
The article "How Not To Sort By Average Rating" by the same author (and also linked in this article) is really good, and definitely changed my thinking about any kind of "sort by best to worst" list: https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
M.U.L.E., Bungeling Bay, Mission Impossible, Racing Destruction Set and Ultima IV were our go-tos.
Shenmue is in a unique genre. The gameplay of III is more of the same, but not very innovative on top of what came before it. So, if you like I & II, you'll probably like III. The game plays as if it came out in 2003, not 2019, if that makes sense, but it takes full advantage of the graphics capabilities of the PS4. I understand mixed reviews. If you did enjoy I & II, the gameplay feels nostalgic & familiar, and you've probably played nothing like it in the past 20+ years. If you didn't, the gameplay probably seems antiquated, if not quaint, and you understand why there aren't many games like it.

My qualms with the game were more story related.
https://youtu.be/9rzr5SxttR8
> In 1833 James Pond, the Astronomer Royal, introduced the Greenwich Time Ball...

Did he stand up and say: "My name is Pond... James Pond"?
It sounds like a pretty lucrative retirement plan, no matter how boring and frustrating the actual work would be.

Sadly, I don't think companies are going to hire graybeards to maintain AI slop code. They're just going to release low-quality garbage, and the bar for what counts as good software will get lower and lower.
Resuming arms delivery kind of guarantees no ceasefire deal will be made.
There is a different between a Fan of something, such as Nintendo and Playstation. And making reasons up simply to protect the company it loves. Which is what Gruber and DED on AppleInsider does.

USB-C Invented by Apple? AirPod selling at cost or loss? And countless other things.
The article cites end-to-end efficiency as 60%. Plus the costs of maintaining steam generators and the pipe network.

Electrical transmission systems are roughly 85% efficient to the consumer; together with boring old resistive electric radiators which are 100% efficient. So is there any reason to subscribe to the steam system for new construction?
For anyone else feeling a good hit of nostalgia, I highly recommend this excellent site with C64 games playable in the browser - and with netplay too!
https://c64.krissz.hu/online-playable-games/
Tech funding that's reliant on a large number of small donors is less sustainable than a few deep pockets.

However, the latter situation opens the door for somebody to simply become the largest funder and start implicitly dictating its direction, like what Google eventually did with Mozilla.

Surely it doesn't cost $150m/yr to maintain security updates for a browser - is there a cheaper way to fund one? Functionally, it seems that browsers don't do anything more today that they haven't been capable of since 2015. W3C changes occur at a glacial pace too, it's not like there are always new things to be adding into the pipeline.
You are right, of course. Imperceptible dithering is still technically used all the time. But the harsh dithered look of yesteryear, where images were crunched down to 1-bit or maybe 32 colors if you were lucky is seldom done today.
I was recently tasked with building a PWA to escape the play stores. A vitally important feature was notifications for the messaging system.

Hours of research trying to figure out how to deliver a notification through the PWA, even if the application was closed. Eventually I thought it wasn't going to be possible. But I remembered the HEY products were PWAs, and they had an email product. Surely that has the notification feature I'm trying to replicate? It's a paid service.

... no, I couldn't get their notifications to work, even though I enabled all of the proper settings. Crazy.

However, when I was about to give up and abandon the entire project, I had one of those moments, and got it to work.
Yup, it still is. Maybe it was more prevalent or expected 15 years ago, but it still happens all the time today.
> VPNs would not make sense if the actual ISP if blocking you.

Unless they are outright blocking your entire connection. That is precisely why one would use a vpn. A vpn most definitely can help get around blocking key words.
As I understand, these "data safety" sections are what Google gives app owners to comply with "right to be informed". If they say "we're sharing location data with third parties for Advertising purposes" I'm believing it.

I agree that they should really be asking for consent as well, but they don't seem to be doing that. We've got no way to use legitimate location related functionality and deny advertising related usecases. Remember, consent must be specific and granular.

It'll be a while, until enforcement catches up. It's taken ~6 years for cookie banners to get a "reject" button and those are really easy to review and enforce.

It'll happen though, enforcement is just slow. GDPR is a fairly well written regulation, as far as corner cases and catching workarounds goes. So unless the laws change, enforcement will catch up eventually.
Publishing articles, etc to demo your skill helps you stay top of mind.

Even if only the 5 people in your network see it, they are the 5 people that need that steady reminder of your skills and availability.

I’ve also hired people outside my network this way, when I happened to stumble on someone with a great article in the exact thing I’m working on.
I helped a friend of mine’s company (CleanRobotics) service his trashbots that sorted landfill/recycling in shopping malls

They used AI to identify and sort

One issue was just the sheer muck of trash, if someone dropped an open smoothie, all sorts of sensors got covered, etc

Really cool idea I thought though
I've had good luck here, having been contacted based on what I posted on the the monthly Seeking Freelancer post.

I think it's dried up now, but I found some projects from Codementor a few years ago.
I almost always wear noise-cancelling headphones with brown noise playing while I'm at home. It's easier than dealing with an upstairs neighbor who always seems to be moving and only knows how to heel-stomp. And it's the only way I've found to block out impact noises.

It's frustrating that there's no solution to such a widespread problem. The only economical solution I can think of is building another layer of floor in the upstairs unit, but that's a solution that's unavailable to the person trying to solve the problem. And landlords have no incentive for that kind of work because most tenants endure the noise without complaint.

My previous neighbors were very cooperative when I talked to them and they got some rugs and indoor slippers. But the best solution is to just walk lightly. It's second-nature to me to not walk heavily when I'm in small indoor spaces, but a lot of people don't have any awareness of how they walk. I'm also very tall and I think bigger people have a better sense of their physical impact. I'll have small parties here and I'm always interested in who moves gently versus who stomps around my apartment (with apologies to my downstairs neighbor) and it's never the largest people stomping.
Yeah, the installation instructions should probably be updated at the very least, and perhaps that warning should be adjusted as well.
Assume you are referring to "Apple's official defense attorney" and yeah, that's not fair to Gruber, as others point out he's a very good and thoughtful writer.

I'd say less "fundamentally fan of ..." and more "deeply understands ..."
Authenticode in 2025 – Azure Trusted Signing
This is true in a scientific, not practical sense, in any American city.

Engine noise always dominates, because 1% of cars are simply purposefully obnoxiously loud, and you need to be powerful and well connected to get enforcement of existing laws about vehicle noise in your neighborhood.
> People in India learned about computers from the West, but that doesn't make them somehow wrong for India... Can there be no growth or innovation

Democracy is consistent with "growth [and] innovation." If the Indian electorate finds certain western ideas to be positive innovations, it can adopt them democratically. Like computers--Indians adopted computers because they found computers to be a western advancement worth adopting. But voting is how you decide what's "innovation" versus what's "regression." How else would you possibly decide that?

> Rights are also a moral issue. There are people being harmed, who at the same time deserve to be free and live fulfilling, safe lives of their own choosing - not of your choosing (or mine).

You're articulating western morality that isn't widely accepted in Asia. "Choice" is a western fixation. Asians know that most individuals need society to help them make good choices. Western parents tell their kids to "follow their dreams." Asian parents tell their kids to "follow the proven track." Likewise, fixating on "harm" to the individual rather than harm to society as a whole is a western fixation. For example, westerners perceive Singapore's practice of caning those that cause public disorder as violating "human rights." But Singaporeans view it as an appropriate trade-off that protects the public's right to live in a clean, orderly, and safe environment.

"Democracy" is good, and widely supported in places like India, Bangladesh, etc. But it's antithetical to the concept of democracy to use it as a backdoor to smuggle in unrelated western moral philosophy.
You can control dependencies per platform

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/dependencies/#pl...

Not sure if it's as granular as you might need
There was a point where I started to dive more into specs, docs, and code, and less relying on finding the answer I'm after.

But in defence of those spending hours on forums, sometimes a project is not well documented, and the code isn't easy to read. In those situations though, I'll be browsing their Github issues or contacting them directly.

Often though I find it highly valuable to go read the docs, even if an LLM has given me a working example. Sometimes, I find better ways, warnings, or even information on unrelated things I want to do.
Look in unexpected places, like temp agencies.

I was once in a similar position as you. I signed up with an agency that specialized in placing people in temporary jobs in creative companies. (Ad agencies, design studios, architecture firms, etc.). I ended up with a temporary web dev position that turned into a full-scale full-time warehouse automation job.

Once they see you're reliable and can think, many non-tech companies will find places where your skills can be put to use.

Tech is everywhere. Look outside the SV bubble.
I haven't seen season 2, and I'm not saying it's bad. I'm saying the web toon looks incredible.
As others said - use your network. Making a post on LinkedIn and trying to get your network to reshare it could help a lot.
There's no way that Panama is not preparing on sabotaging the canal. Yes, it can be repaired, but it'll probably take a year. And I'm sure that having the Panama Canal down for a year won't affect the American economy (nevermind the rest of the world's.)

Also, this article is clearly a "Diplomacy Through Media" article, with the intent of letting Panama know of the "options" they have, a) more US troops in Panama asserting some control over the canal, b) US Troops in Panama with complete control over the canal or c) US troops in Panama overthrowing the government and taking over the canal. What options!

But again, this seems like an intentional leak from the White House to put pressure on the Panamanian government. And like all things trump white house, it's heavy handed, unsubtle, and poorly done.

But now the Trump sycophants will come out and tell us how this is 4D Chess. At the same time screaming: Break up NATO! Stop supporting Ukraine! No more world police! No more foreign wars!

Yay America, well done in electing this a-hole.

( Except Panama, Greenland and Canada!)
I don't think Nixon and Kissinger were stupid. I think that they were wrong, and they certainly didn't care that their wrong ideas got a lot of innocent people killed. But I think that they were well read and could show a lot of data supporting their ideas.

If our arc of history were merely as bad as the Nixon and Kissinger era, we'd be a lot better off.
Thank you. Looks like I overcomplicated things. I won't even use a vintage CPU, maybe a STM32, so that would be even easier. I guess the only complicated thing is if I want to invent "cartridges" so that involves some hardware.

And yeah I agree those earlier discrete logic games are tough to copy. I think those games were made in hardware with little software.
Ok well a lot of that UX depends on hover states and right clicks that don't exist for touch screens. Key bindings? What keys?

That's the major reason we dont have the same toolbars. We can be cynical about engagement and free software but try to make a mobile app the old way. You can't.
I just finished War is a Racket (haven't read it before, thank you for the recommendation). I'm not sure what words of Dwight Eisenhower you're referring to.

To be perfectly clear, I am not sympathetic to war; war is the most terrible thing humanity can do. Avoiding it should be one of our primary goals as a species. Which begs the question: what can motivate people to contribute to that? War hasn't become any less horrible, so why are people more open to being a part of the industry now?

The short answer is, of course, money. But to look a bit deeper, we have to understand the mentality that's driving the change:

> “National security includes the toughest and the most exciting problems that the country has to offer. And Facebook is basically fentanyl for your head. Why would I want students to go there?”

> [unnamed student] described national security work as “mission-driven,” unlike the “empty pursuit” of consumer software.

As much as I support anti-war sentiment for its own sake, that sentiment has been the prominent thinking for the better part of the last decade, yet it has evidently failed to stop the shift in mentality we see happening now.

These students do not believe in consumer tech. They do not believe we are collectively working towards a better future, a sentiment I share. That is what needs to change to stop this move towards national 'defense'. There will always be enough people who choose practicality over principles for evil things to happen if evil feeds mouths where principles do not. Principled action must be focused toward making principles and practicality the same.
Doge Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
Eh, I mean, kinda. “Special” VFR isn’t special in that sense. It’s not something that anyone really reviews in the sense non-aviation people would assume by the words “special permission”. It’s much closer to some magic words you can say to fly VFR in what would otherwise be technically “too close to clouds”.

You’re usually required to be hundreds or thousands of feet from clouds; SVFR trims that down to “don’t touch them”. Going into the clouds was still illegal.

CNN framing it as “special permission” is… kinda true, but misleading in sentiment. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a controller turn down SVFR.
I've started thinking about this. Articles/blogs/repos to generate interesting opportunities.

It's one thing to network and talk about your skills. It's a different thing to demonstrate them.
Also fast to compile!
I was talking more in the general case.

Yes, you can always just write more and more and more code to fix these things. Or you could just… not write more code and still get optimal performance.
Meta stops ex-director from promoting critical memoir
Imagine having a mesh of hundreds of fibre optic cables strewn across the border.

Many having wireless routers at their terminus to forward traffic to other cables. Other cables having vertices and graph-like structures so that they could tolerate cuts in individual lines.

The end result could be something quite authentic to ARPANET.
There's Burning Mountain in Australia which has been burning for thousands of years.
It's the other way around, the value of that terminal is in the information, not whatever hated UI quirks it had been stuck with since its inception, yet people keep falling for that old logic "old+expensive = great".

> it's the same, but it evolves, if that makes sense.

it doesn't, these are the opposite.

> If you know how to use it in company A in decade 1980, you know how to use it in company B today. That doesn't mean it hasn't improved or improved ergonomics.

Neither does this: it would be just as trivial to select at company B "use config ergonomic_grey_beard_1980" and continue with all your knowledge, just without those quirks you hated in 1980 that led you to change the stable defaults to a better config.

> but it's not like Vim

And in some sense in the relevant UI area it's exactly like Vim, where many bad quirks in the default config are praised by the grey beards and new converts alike.

> moving into a blank new updated version

Why would you do that instead of using your old config???

> the ribbon design vs the old design

Neither is forcing a change like this the only alternative
They "worked" in the sense that, when I managed to save up for a game on my minimum-wage salary, I bought a game that none of my friends had a cracked copy of. I remember buying EA's Caveman Ughlympics for that reason (it also came with some cool extras in the box).

But it didn't work in the sense of making me buy more games. I had hundreds of copied games and a couple dozen purchased ones, and if copy protection had been perfect, I would have had a couple dozen. The publishers always acted like I would have purchased the hundreds, which was impossible.

So it was really a competition between the publishers to out-protect the others more than between the publishers and the customers.
OODA loop is what powers Kubernetes. The controlller lies at the heart of everything, the API is a Desired State Management, autonomic OODA controllers attempt to fulfill and maintain that desired state. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/controller/

You can write "cloud native" systems in this pattern. You can also write Custom Resources to extend this pattern to your own systems, and run them via Kube (optional).

I also really enjoyed this submission yesterday on Teleo-Reactive systems, systems which monitor environment/state & adjust their planning & potentially objectives as the environment/state changes. https://web.archive.org/web/20220815134119/https://teleoreac... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43346783
I am just sharing my experiences, what is wrong with that? The replies to my comment adds nothing of value, even less than my expression of my experience which is on-topic. Your comment to mine is pretty unnecessary. I do not care whether or not you asked. I was voicing an experience similar to the GP. Your comment history is questionable, FWIW.
Do we suspect there's significant demand for internet in North Korea? Market potential, sure. But I'm guessing if you asked North Korea what information distribution they wanted, they would say they just want a more honest newspaper.
I dont see why a Gemini robot couldn't grab 20 dark clothing items from a hamper, put them in the laundry machine, wait an hour, take them out and put them in the dryer while I was at work (thanks return to office)
As I understand it, I maintain the whitelist, not the tech overlord.

That’s sort of the point of MCP, as near as I can tell.