skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine is less about race or college.

It's often mismatch between how people sell themselves vs what they have done.

a director at google might oversell himself and land at a vp role at a public co what's much less smaller, than swing back at another faang as a vp.

It's hard to judge someone's skills/capabilities for a job role externally vs while on the job.

So you have "proxies".

How big of an org s/he managed is often an indicator of some sort of success, but it's a terrible one, for example.
> Sorry to go meta here, but this is just rude, both to OP and to other readers. ... You're essentially using the edit feature to end the conversation and ensure you have the final word.

I've noticed this more and more, especially on more controversial topics (which this is certainly not).

Adam makes a statement, Betty responds. Adam responds, and Betty edits her initial response and conversation ends, likely because Adam didn't see the edit.
It uses ariaSnapshot, which is an accessible representation of the DOM used by screen readers and accessibility validation tools as well as playwright testing.

However, even with that, it will quickly exhaust the model context if you navigate to something like Gmail. I just verified this with cursor.

I've been playing around with a much better textual representation of the page that's much more compact:

https://github.com/lxe/chrome-mcp/blob/master/src/runtime-te...

This uses your own chrome session and doesn't require a huge context size.

I might refactor this to use the aria interface available to the CDP, which I wasn't aware of at the time.
Can you name two such devices? Because the only thing I've ever found a Z80 in is an S1 MP3 player. I've found ARMs, 8051s, and weird Epson microcontrollers they seem to have never published the instruction set for, but never a Z80.
This is where AI becomes a tool for the artists.

We need an AI DAW, not Suno.
> have job offers rescinded, or be targeted by scams

Can you expand on this?

I understand the insurance thing due to genetic diseases and so on, but which jobs would I be denied for based on genetic information which wouldn’t be checked anyways?

I can only come up with stuff like colorblindness but that would probably be checked anyways if it were a strict requirement for the job so keeping the DNA secret wouldn’t help.

And what’s the scam angle when the DNA is known?
No.

I would say I wouldn't go.

Holding conferences on the US was already a complete barrier, as it would require a work visa, and even if I really wanted to go, I'd need every information and inscription to be available 6 months in advance.
Yeah, not all hope is lost, but good apps do get delisted for not complying with whatever Google dictates on the Play store, so you have to make good backups of content that only exists there! Which is a really great reason to use f-droid instead of course.
I think this depends on one's definition of "code"
Hey, this is fantastic, thanks!
> To my knowledge, Apple has not had any insider compromise of activation lock.

First they would have to get caught.

> This is why criminals try to phish the credentials from the victim instead.

Either method would be effective and not every criminal would have access to an insider, or they would have to pay off the insider for each device and then still prefer to phish the customer if possible to avoid paying the bribe.
There’s _no_ statistics? Surely those statistics are precisely what all car insurance premiums are based upon. They might be proprietary but I am certain such statistics exist.
I'm just going by the practical reality here; I personally do like using the git commandline, but the reality is that most people are using Git from forges like GitHub and terrible UI programs like, well, GitHub Desktop, which do both of these things.

Ultimately git is a tool for version control and software collaboration, so what you end up doing should encompass the tools that people use. It's easier to find a compromise than to hardline on a position that requires a lot more upfront work (it's much harder to switch people off of software that they are familiar with than you might expect.)
Well its directly from the documentation written by the SWEs that built the protocol...

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
People wonder why I run their shitty apps in VMs and nuke the VM afterwards.

This is why, lol.
Don't really know, not my words.
I didn't dig into it too deeply at the time, but I think part of it was that you don't need to open and write to a socket, so that's avoiding some system calls (socket(), bind(), sendto(), close()). IIRC we had nscd set up so clients directly read from shared memory that nscd kept updated, rather than getting requests over a socket.

There's also probably some savings around not having to convert between the structures used by gethostbyname and DNS questions&answers.
Right, that is why I said it makes sense for existing products. I mentioned desktop apps, but it would apply to any existing project. Like JIRA, or HubSpot, Wordpress, or Figma, etc.

But there is hype around MCP as if independent devs could do something with it. And some will just for fun, some will for open source cred. But it is my experience that longevity is usually the result of stable revenue.

I guess what I predict happening here is a few people will build some useful MCPs, realize there is no way to monetize despite generating a lot of interest and the most useful/popular MCPs will be integrated directly into the offerings of the foundational AI companies. And in a few years we won't even remember the acronym unless you happen to work for some big corp that wants to integrate your existing service into LLMs.
To a broader extent isn't this kind of the history of silicon valley ever since the dot com bubble?

For every small startup trying to build innovative robotics to solve a healthcare or agriculture problem, there's 10 startups getting 100x funding because they figured out how to put jpegs on the blockchain and the last guys that figured out how to do that had a nice exit...

I forgot what the economists call this but it's the characterization of housing market. The value of your current house is determined by the last few local sales and little else. All of the startups using the current in Vogue technology feel like that...
Google has had a strategy of keeping some parts of Android open source for the benefit of the world, and other parts closed source inside Google Play Services. However European regulators continue to rule that Google Play Services itself is the leverage Google uses to lessen competition. If regulators have antitrust concerns with just one proprietary blob, there's really no incentive to make Android truly open. Opening up the rest of the Android literally doesn't help with antitrust.
I didn’t mean art. I meant visual internet content of all kinds. Influencers promoting products, models, the “guy talking to a camera” genre, photos of landscapes, interviews, well-designed ads, anything that comes up on your instagram explore page; anything that has taken over feeds due to the trust coming from a human being behind it will become indistinguishable from slop. It’s not quite there yet but it’s close and undeniably coming soon
Damn. 3rd party is all I use on them. :-( Memo to self: Don't flash any firmware on my working devices. Ever.
i don't think China uses SMS though.
I before e isn’t even standard.
Pixels have been beating iPhones in camera quality for years now on pretty much every blind test. Even the cheap ones.
There was a lot of trade in the centuries up to WWII, though.
And PEBCAK.
If you’re wondering about hard numbers, the benefits for Wine look massive.

From Jan 2024:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux
we pay millions to Oracle. We hit a bug and it took 6months for them to reproduce and acknowledge there is a bug. they now seem to be on the lookout for someone being able to produce a fix: sales and indian after-sales can't do that... curious!

Oracle seems just a moneygrabbing shell company at this point and I suppose the whole hyperscaler-cloud is developing towards that point with the leaders of those corporations repeating exactly the same talking points...
Google has turned it around quite exceptionally. A lot of my professional work has turned back to Google products, and 2.5 Pro is absolutely exceptional. It is absolutely a benchmark model.

Google did seem asleep at the wheel, and then when they did come out with some products they were so incredibly afraid of Gizmodo soliciting an image or text output that was socially unacceptable, paralyzing them with fear (and leading to some incredible stupidity). But their pace now is rapid.
Maybe they didn't have innovative functionality initially but the user experience was certainly better.

Microsoft fumbled Skype and nobody was putting together convenient apis on top of IRC...
Which is nearly all of them, except perhaps C/C++, that I can think of, in terms of languages broadly adopted

You can cache and/or emulate the network to go offline but fundamentally a fresh build in most languages will want to hit a network at least by default
Prototype the crappiest thing you can in RoR (if you're still happy to use it).

When you hit a problem ask people (most likely still doable as it's just REST api endpoints) and if not, possibly re-evaluate.

At worst you'll know if your idea is worthless (probably lol) and if the tools you used were good or not. Rinse-repeat.

Good luck!
Windows recently had [Compress to postcode] in its context menu for en-GB users.
Interesting story, I bet that was a gut-punch, haha. Hadn't seen the needle problem, cute and immediately clear (when it's pointed out—it wouldn't have been immediately clear if you'd asked me to solve it myself, of course) why the probability would have a relation to pi, thanks for introducing me to it.

Agree that teachers can make a big difference, and my ideas for system-level reform are absolutely half-baked and may actually be awful. The closest thing I've got to a claim I'm fairly sure is true on this topic, is that trying to get kids to see the beauty of math before school has prejudiced them against it is unlikely to achieve much, because I don't think schools' deficiencies are the key reason for students failing to see that beauty in the first place :-/

> Really we're just saying that it's hard to get people to do things they don't naturally care about.

QED, LOL.
Tiktok was released in its current form in 2017, I believe. Is that before the period you're asking about?
I don't think you get what I mean... Mozilla made 85% of its revenue from Google in 2023 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation). That goes away; who is going to pay that? 653 million income, 555 of that from Google... Google stops paying; that's 98 million left over... Their dev costs were 260 million. How do they make up the shortfall?
I agree with you that most consumers probably do want things that are bad for them. I would at least be cautious of services provided by one of the companies with the most anti-trust lawsuits this century, I really don't think they're your friend.
You are saying that non-Google parties are reliant on AOSP being developed in the open on a public Gerrit instance? In what way?
Another reason they're expensive is because the government basically guarantees they'll pay for whatever tuition the universities set, so they raise prices. There's lot of other factors, including administrative bloat, and maybe partially from less funding... But they're still funded in large part by the government via loans. I don't know the right answer, but I know it's not simply more government funding.
AI working isn't the dystopian option. Imagine AI can do none of those things, but the people who control the capital believe they can.

That's the dystopia.
I think we might be talking past each other due to different definitions of "highly engineered." I’ve got some touch in this space too, family in textile manufacturing, and I’ve seen firsthand what goes into setting up and running these operations.

Yes, there are many teams involved: design, sourcing, logistics, etc., and coordination is non-trivial. But when I say "not highly engineered," I’m speaking in relative terms-compared to something like a jet engine, semiconductor fab, or an MRI machine, where you have interlocking systems, deep R&D, and layers of complex subsystems that are difficult to validate in isolation.

Textiles are complex in a logistical and operational sense, but not in the same way. With some capital, a motivated team can spin up a factory making garments. That’s just not possible with truly high engineering products.

So I don’t disagree that a lot of work goes into it, just that the comparison feels off. We’re evaluating "complexity" on different planes. Software is not an semiconductor fab but its also not a textile plant.
Sure it is. It isn't airtight but then what is?

Even KVM escapes have been demonstrated. KVM is not a security boundary ... except that in practice it is (a quite effective one at that).

Taken to the extreme you end up with something like "network connected physical machines aren't a security boundary" which is just silly.
I wouldn't underestimate Microsoft either. They are much more successful at enterprise than Google or ChatGPT, and are one of few companies to compete successfully in almost every tech vertical.
They voted for a president that does though.
Show HN: Fully Automatic Job Application Tracker via Gmail
Hey HN, I'm a recent grad who's been unemployed for the past 6 months, spending that time building web apps. During my own job hunt, I got incredibly frustrated with the amount of manual work involved in tracking applications across different platforms. Even with tools like Huntr.co (my university provided a subscription that recently expired), I was still spending too much time updating the kanban board after checking the relevant email; worst of all is most of the time it's just updating the company to the rejected side of the kanban board.

So, I built RunMagi: an automatic job application tracker that completely monitors your Gmail inbox. The goal is to eliminate that tedious manual work. Unlike many other trackers, RunMagi doesn't require any browser extensions – it just works by analyzing your emails.

I'm sharing this here because I know many of you have been through the job search and might relate to this pain. As a solo developer, this has been a passion project, and I'd love to get your feedback.

What are your biggest frustrations with tracking job applications? Does this approach of automatic Gmail monitoring sound useful to you? Any thoughts on the landing page, or the core idea would be greatly appreciated!

My goal is to iterate and eventually be able to take care of all the little things that people find annoying that has nothing to do with the actual interview itself.
100 years ago is 1925 - people were already buying cloth in stores at that time. You need to go further into history.
I recently bought a 240 Hz OLED monitor as well, but to my dismay the 80 Gbps data rate mode is actually optional in DisplayPort 2.1a. Even though I have a DP2.1-capable GPU (9070 XT) and monitor, it's not possible to do 4k 10bit HDR at 240 Hz with DSC off. Since I don't want compression to be on I've compromised to sticking with 180 Hz, which as you say due to the diminishing returns above 120 is still plenty.

Still quite frustrating that the display industry did it again in specifying a standard that makes most of what's interesting about it optional, so everyone can print it on their boxes without delivering the expected value.
> Enough to be denied insurance...

Not just you, but your children who never had anything to do with 23andMe as well!
> I can't think of ANY situation where a print out of Wikipedia would be better than a digital version.

An EMP destroys your electronics and makes accessing the digital version impossible?
Trump Says He'll Hit Auto Imports with 25% Tariffs
https://archive.is/92lVf
Did anyone else notice - the molecule it generated did not match the source image.

Seems like this could be incredibly valuable, but I'd argue there needs to be validation steps in place to confirm it's actually generating the right thing, for the case of image -> vector generation.
They sponsor a fast car too.
According to Wikipedia, Discord is 2015, Only Fans and TikTok are 2016.

I'm as surprised as you are, I'd like to be proven wrong here!
I mean, you could do that, it's sort-of a lie though, maybe something better would be using the date of the most recent commit, which would be both more accurate, as far as authorship goes, and actually deterministic..

Pipe something like this into your build system:

date --date "$(git log HEAD --author-date-order --pretty=format:"%ad" --date=iso | head -n1)" +"%Y"
In the UK, and I presume the EU also, the fines for losing customer data are set as a % of company annual worldwide turnover.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/law-enforcement/guide-t...
Anyone else dread the "how's the startup going?" question from friends?
My default is to say, "it's going great!!", but deep down I also know that's not the whole truth.

The truth is I am having the best time of my life, getting to build something from scratch, with a bunch of other smart people who inspire me every day. It's impossible to describe how rewarding it is to have real world people using and loving your product. It's more than any joy I've had working within another company. I get to wake up, have a new idea, and turn it into something that people use in a matter of days...no silly decks to put together, no approvals to get, no aligning of stakeholders...just running with the wind at my back.

BUT....

I'm also more stressed than I've ever been. I have to worry about runway. I have to worry about funding. I have to worry about random tax filings, and legal docs, and running payroll. I have to worry about getting to market fast enough, keeping users, keeping team members motivated, making sure we're aligned and moving fast. I have to worry about the fact that there's a ton of stuff I should be worrying about that I don't even know exists yet.

And I know a lot of people say at a startup you experience the highest highs and lowest lows, sometimes in the same day. But for me it's more like both things exist at the same time. It's just constantly feeling this deep sense of reward and purpose, while also feeling a nagging sense of dread and low grade stress. I don't want to say everything's great because it's not true, but I also don't want anyone to pity me for the stresses because there is nothing in the world I'd rather be doing.

So, I just smile and say things are great, and then post here to see if there's anyone else that feels the same way :)
I think he missed adding: and let them do their job and be smart managing the resources by themselves.

Pichai & co put a borderline-communist quota system and it became a popularity contest to get a tiny slice extra of compute. And then OpenAI ate their lunch (Google tech).
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act makes it illegal to adjust health (but not life) insurance premiums or discriminate for employment based on genetic information. Couples who do genetic testing before having kids have the same protections and they're very effective.
> Contrast this with something like Qt, which is an absolute pain to compile and is riddled with bugs.

Compiling qt is a choice, there are many, many ways to get precompiled libs. Also, it is only hard to compile if you’re not familiar with ./configure, it is actually absurdly easy to compile and link against qt.

As for the bugs thing, sure, qt has bugs. So does _all other software_ and this is a very strange argument to make on your end.
Unity, Blender and Photoshop all have rough MCP integrations available. You can find them on GitHub.
Italy–Where Creating a Social Media Account May Be a Taxable Event
Ah I guess I almost never tip uber (unless something exceptional happens) - holdover from the Travis era.
It's not going to be possible because Apple hasn't come out with an equivalent to Gemini. It would be like if Siri also had full LLM conversation capabilities, and access to all your documents/email/etc, and direct integration to run web searches, analyze web pages, etc. And it's fast enough to have a real-time conversation[1], as if you were speaking to a human on the phone. Oh, and that's on my Pixel 7, which is two years behind.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ks21fpjH9M
Note that in doing so, they'd be reaching where SpaceX was a decade ago, and by the time they got there, it seems pretty likely that full reusability will be working a year or so from now, at least for basic earth-orbit flights.
> bread go stale

Freeze loaves in chest freezer

> milk go sour

Ultra-pasteurized milk cartons have a shelf life of months (some even unrefrigerated) when unopened. Once open, they need to be used within a week or so, but that is doable with 1.5 gallon cartons.

> eggs go spoiled

Not really. At least the ones we get here, can last a long while in the fridge. Easily a couple of weeks if not more.

> fruits and veggies

Some veggies can be frozen e.g. carrots. Others can be fried/roasted and then frozen. Fruits do go bad fast yes. Some of the fruits can be bought frozen as well.

> Where I live nobody enjoys yesterdays bread and

Frozen bread thawed at room temperature tastes surprisingly fresh IMO. And no, it's not the "flour-based product" you refer to. I have made home-made bread and frozen with no issues and then thawed it out later.

> we don’t cook meat or chicken if it’s been in the fridge for more than about five days.

I don't eat meat, but I think the answer is again a chest freezer that sits at -20 C or so. A 10 cu.ft freezer is super compact and cheap and can store a lot of food.
Waymo rides are also potentially slower because they strictly follow speed limits. Not really problematic in downtown SF but it’ll be interesting to see how it’ll be received by riders when they expand to highway driving where most people generally expect to drive over the speed limit.
The cost of getting too big
> The world after the collapse of the Roman Empire did not look at all like the world before the Roman Republic, and incorporated many of the institutions and infrastructure left behind by the Roman Empire.

Our modern institutions and infrastructure depend on impossibly-complex, precariously-fragile world-spanning supply chains that rely on untold quantities of highly-skilled labor whose own training and employment is dependent upon having enough pre-existing material prosperity that 90% of the population is exempt from needing to grow their own food.

Meanwhile, the supply chain for the pre-Roman and post-Roman worlds were not very different. They were producing tin in Britain in 2000 BC, and they were producing tin in Britain in 1000 AD. Crucially, the top of the production pyramid (finished goods) was still close to the bottom of it (raw materials harvestable with minimal material dependencies) without a hundred zillion intervening layers of middlemen.
It's a worldview that necessitates only teaching what leads to a job. It is anti beauty and anti human.

We are not machines of production. We are human beings, we deserve to learn stuff that doesn't help us produce.