skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, pretty much this.

I worked on this problem for a couple years, with vastly more funding and an existing userbase to bypass the cold start problem. So did my predecessor. Neither of us succeeded, nor came particularly close. Here's what I wrote last year in a retrospective about how we failed (with a few things not relevant to this post trimmed):

> "LinkedIn For Engineers" - that was the by-phrase within Triplebyte for most of 2020 as we shifted into the Source era.

> Job searching on LinkedIn sucks! (True.) Engineers hate LinkedIn! (Often true.) So if we just make a LinkedIn that doesn't suck (uh-oh), everyone should want to use us instead!

> I present it here in a somewhat comedic tone, but this wasn't a ridiculous idea on the face of it. We didn't need to worry about the cold-start problem (because we already had a bunch of users on both sides of the hiring process) and we were competing against an incumbent people don't like. None of Triplebyte's leadership were stupid, and they didn’t pick that direction arbitrarily.

> Conventional wisdom, and wisdom within the company at the time, was that if you want to disrupt an incumbent, you need to be a step function better. The claim was that our skill assessments and our engineer-specific functions could accomplish that. And our assessments were very good. That part wasn't wrong.

> But the problem was that we couldn’t just be a step function better at something. That can work for a company just starting out (and in fact it’s standard advice for making a great startup), but we were a growth-stage Series B company with a nine-figure valuation. We needed to be a step function better at the core value proposition of our space. And the core value proposition of LinkedIn isn't "we make finding a job easy and pleasant". It’s "we have all the jobs and all the candidates".

> No one wanted another LinkedIn, because LinkedIn had already perfected its we-have-all-the-jobs-and-all-the-candidates value prop.

I'm not quite sure what OP thinks their step-function advantage is, either. It certainly looks nicer than LinkedIn, but if you're generating a profile from a resume, what does it add beyond resumes? Resumes that are already a de facto standard supported by every ATS in the Universe?

We had a UI with a bunch of nice displays and animations and such. No one used it - they all just used the PDF export. At my current company, I pretty much exclusively use linkedin's PDF export when viewing candidates there for the same reason.
I’m much more concerned about Palestinians being targeted since they’ve already been the victims of AI weapons attacking civilians. Imagine if people with Palestinian/semitic DNA were leaked?
>Then they can get away with anything in court because they can afford to pay millions in lawyer fees after extorting customers by bricking printers. If I did this, I would go to jail.

HP didn't even "brick" the printers. They only prevented them from using third party cartridges. That's not "brick" in any meaningful sense of the word. It's also unclear how that's something obviously illegal if it's done by an individual.
Between that and many "banks" offering you to "invest" in crypto straight from their mobile apps home page... it seems like they're trying to milk whatever is left in the pockets of the bottom tier

Debt is a powerful tool when used by educated people for legit reasons, buying a new TV or chicken wings isn't one of them.
Sell the entire database to a police state.
Identify embarrassing mutations and blackmail people to prevent them from being released publicly.
Corner high value individuals / billionaires, find an out of wedlock child, blackmail.
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Autoconf releases are distributed as .tar.xz archives.
> I feel like the root cause system built for the 1700s

The root cause is that lawyers are expensive a corporations have more money than just about anyone else.

Couple that with a legislature which pretty much only passes laws in a reactionary manner and the fact that corporate lobbying has been a mainstay in US politics for the majority of the lifetime of the US and you get what we have now.
There is a vast gulf of time between the 1970s and SpaceX. The space shuttle alone, fully NASA-run, was a (beautiful-looking) failure long before SpaceX came along. And it was fully government-designed and government-run. It was also astonishingly expensive.

Good things can happen in the private sector or the public sector. SpaceX is a good thing happening in the private sector. No one's brain has to go running to Republican-bashing and history compression to counterbalance that to avoid thinking new thoughts.
Honestly one of the biggest open questions in applying ML to weather and climate
Actually, the conda-forge bot does more than that;

From https://github.com/regro/cf-scripts/issues/3920#issuecomment... re: (now github) dependabot maybe someday scanning conda environment.yml, conda-lock.yml, and/or feedstock meta.yml:

> So the bot here does a fair bit more than update dependencies and/or versions.

> We have globally pinned ABIs which have to migrated in a specific order. We also use the bot here to start the migrations, produce progress / error outputs on the status page, and then close the migrations. The bot here also does specific migrations of dependencies that have been renamed, recipe maintenance, and more.

Dependabot scans for vulnerable software package versions in software dependency specification documents for a number of languages and package formats, when you git push to a repo which has dependabot configured in their dependabot.yml:

From the dependabot.yml docs: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-... :

> Define one package-ecosystem element for each package manager that you want Dependabot to monitor for new versions

Dependabot supports e.g. npm, pip, gomod, cargo, docker, github-actions, devcontainers,

SBOM tools have additional methods of determining which packages are installed on a specific server or container instance.

Static sites are sometimes build and forget projects that also need regular review of the statically-compiled-in dependencies for known vulns.

E.g. jupyterlite-xeus builds WASM static sites from environment.yml; though Hugo is probably much faster.
Tesla Full Self-Driving is stagnating after Elon said it is going exponential
Blood is drawn from basically every infant born in the US and then genetically tested for various diseases. And the health departments retain these cards with the blood draws, although I’m not sure how usable they are decades later.

If you have a baby at home with a lay midwife, the health departments retain will hound you endlessly to get this done, although legally you can choose to decline as a parent. Barely anyone does, since most parents want to know if their newborn will have a serious genetic disorder that can be easily avoided by (for example) avoiding artificial sweeteners.
> The most important thing going on for them is they have network effect.

Yes, and the network effect is both what they have going for them and what causes the weird dynamics that make it so awful. I honestly don't think you can have one without the other.

If there are enough people on a platform for the network effects to kick in, then you'll never "stand out" the way OP's tool advertises, and it will inevitably slide into the weird. And if there aren't enough people for the network effects to kick in, then you'll never get to 3x as many interviews from having a profile on this platform (the number advertised).

I wish OP the best of luck, but I honestly don't think you can make a better LinkedIn because the problem isn't LinkedIn, the problem is corporate culture and what happens when you get enough people who are trying to sell themselves for a job into one space.
"I'll gladly pay you the next four Tuesdays for a hamburger today" does seem like a bad economic concept.
Unpredictable behavior of a device is a risk to the business.
Off the top of my head.

Google Workspace (email / drive / docs / chat): $500 / month

Various cloud services: VPS / RDS ($1000+ / month)

Figma / Adobe: $100 / month

A bunch of other services where we spend less than $100/month.

How much pain: as long as a basic level of service exists, willing to take on pain just to not be completely dependent on US companies.
In what ways is this different compared to OpenAI.FM?
For me, no. My motto is "as simple as it can be, as complex as it needs to be". I don't want to build overly complex systems for the sake of building it.

What I enjoy more is seeing things work. Without any luck or non-determinism in my code. "I press button, I get coffee" type of predictability. Boring is good. Boring is reliable.

I also enjoy when my code works fast. Without a mountain of hidden dependencies, absurd amount of resource usage, and "please get a coffee, and come back when it finishes" length of waiting.

Things should be snappy, light, and simple. And preferably GPLv3 licensed.
> And winning a plurality is winning the vote, in almost all electoral systems

Presidential systems with runoffs are very popular. A plurality is useless there, you win with a majority.
PROTIP: you can use your browser's zoom/accessibility/font-adjustment settings to solve most (if not all) of these problems.
How can you tell? This website doesn't explain what the product is, how it works, or even bother with a privacy policy.
Yeah, but proper technique is such that your natural instincts taking over for a moment don't cause trouble.
23andme doesn’t check your identity at all, so you could just put in someone else’s name and submit your own saliva, and then.. go on a crime spree?
It's hard to state how wrong that "solution" is. It comes from good intentions but as they say hell is paved with good intentions.

What is needed is that work pays more so that it's fairer and more attractive and that's it.
Instead of wasting time with an UBI that would have terrible problems down the line, just make laws so that wage inequality is reduced to a minimum. And laws to take everything of the ultra-rich beyond a certain point.

The problem isn't that there is not enough money (or ressources) to go around, the problem is that they are not fairly distributed, trying to fix it in a roundabout way will have more secondary issues than actually fixing anything.
Yeah, as an American I never was taught that Ford invented cars. He invented cheap cars.
Probably yes, check out in a couple of days.
Summary of Programming Languages
Tangential to this... Wright brothers lived and worked in Ohio, but the first flight happened in North Carolina due to its wind conditions and soft sand. In the early 2000's (if I remember right) North Carolina came out with a license plate with the image of the Wright Flyer and a slogan of "First in Flight". Ohio then came out with a license plate with "Birthplace of Aviation". A bit more on this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#State_rivalry
Yeah, as that Rust issue states, this was first replicated by a C++ programmer and STL (the person, not the Microsoft name for the C++ stdlib) said it looks like a bug in SRWLock.

There's a Microsoft internal ticket which I can't read (but STL can because he's a Microsoft employee) but there's also a GitHub issue for STL (this time the stdlib, a GitHub project, although it was opened by the person) https://github.com/microsoft/STL/issues/4448 and it's confirmed in that issue this is a bug in SRWLock, thus no work for STL† (either the project or the person).

It's not unusual (especially in C++ but this happens anywhere) that people would rather contort themselves to believe crazy things than accept that it's just a bug.

† Both Windows and C++ holds themselves to a very low standard, "Yeah, it's broken, too bad" is acceptable. Once you've determined that it's a bug you're done.
Worlds by Haldeman. The Long Lavender Look by McDonald.
HIP is AMD's equivalent of CUDA and is certainly a language.

But you are right CK is indeed a library, thanks for pointing that out.
>not using GNoUse

Why do you hate freedom?

Wait brb, the ceiling fan I wrote in Lisp is spraying yogurt again
It’s not a bad strategy as a consumer if you order a lot of fast food through DoorDash. It’s an interest-free loan and you might just die before you have to pay it off.
The article doesn’t make it clear if the lossless audio is wireless or requires a cable. Guessing cable is mandatory for lossless.
It depends. Credible people claim that 23andme’s racial / ethnic compositions are highly inaccurate.
Mobile support will be ready in a couple of days.
https://archive.is/NuEsS
Does it matter whether SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab?
I believe the override for GP's 7600 is 1100 or 11.0.0 as GFX1030 is RDNA2 (6800 XT).
It's not even an excuse.
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[+] location : Atlanta
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[+] email : hippytrail@gmail.com zellyn@squareup.com tomcw@users.noreply.github.com zellyn@gmail.com

Pretty much spot on, except for the emails. The ones with username `zellyn` are correct; the others are people who've contributed changes to repos I created (I think).
Woulda been cooler if they were the nautical kind.
I hit this on https://ambiph.one - my solution ended up being similar (use an <audio> element) but because I also wanted audio to play in the background and when the screen is off there's an extra step of tricking Safari into thinking it's playing a livestream, since apparently that's the only kind of audio Apple thinks should be allowed to play in the background.

Coincidentally someone asked me about this the other day so I put together a minimal demo here in case it's useful to anyone: https://codepen.io/matteason/pen/VYwdzVV
Wait, did they get their own library name wrong? CK should be Composable Kernel, I can’t find anything called compute kernel anywhere
But then your point is not that 35% isn't a huge change; it's that the boycotts aren't causing the change.
Spaghetti revealling scientific truths? Bobby Henderson would not be amused, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastafarians
Bringing and Record and Replay everywhere
_Software Counters mode_ `rr` is a reverse debugger built upon the awesome `rr` debugger.

It relaxes one major limitation with the `rr` debugger - it does NOT require access to CPU HW performance counters.

This allows the debugger to run in containers, cloud VMs etc where access to CPU performance counters is usually disabled or not available.

In case you're wondering: reverse debugging is a powerful approach to locating bugs in your program using record/replay. Please see the blog post (https://github.com/sidkshatriya/me/blob/master/008-rr-everyw...) for a gentle exposition of the concept behind record/replay.
Nice and concise tutorial!

Something I would mention, specifically with the example you proposed, is that despite the great standardization provided by MCP, the parameter usage and tool utilization by LLMs isn't deterministic. e.g. the model may not always leverage the GitHub search API optimally rather than defaulting to a Google-like search approach
> See color revolutions.

Bad example, since they are mostly just clandestine interventions of another state to destabilize the one they are happening in.
Funny, I've evolved the opposite attitude over time.

Solving business problems using bespoke software solutions surely is the absolute most expensive option on the table, and should be aggressively avoided unless no other options are available, AND the problem is in a domain which is a core competency and market differentiator for your business.

The process of figuring out what your company needs, and how best to solve that problem long term, is dramatically more valuable to a business than software/technology implementation.
I believe that PyTorch already uses Triton; I recently tried to do torch.compile on a Windows machine and it did not work because the inductor backend relies on Triton.
I think that two things are happening here.
First, we need to acknowledge that simplicity is hard. Requirements change, and making things as simple as they can be (but not simpler) requires a lot of effort.

Second, programmers love spotting things that can be optimized for some definition of what that means - whether it’s faster, more flexible, more secure, more future-proof, more reliable, etc. We don’t like leaving low hanging fruit. The only natural limit to these optimizations is the complexity they add, and the idea that some improvements are not “worth it”. As a direct consequence, we end up with the most complex solutions we can still reason about.
They're referring to this story from a few years back:

Latin as She is Spoke: How Classicists Tricked Themselves Jan 2022 (171 points, 191 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30124101
Still better than vague rants that add nothing concrete to the discussion.
What? Even Ford Motor Company don't seem to claim that Ford made the first car. His Quadricycle was first ran in 1896, Benz's is from 1885...
Go's flag package is covered by the backwards compatibility promise, and no large-scale change is going to be accepted. Pushing proposals to it is a waste of time.

But it doesn't need to be changed. Nothing stops anyone from using any of the several argument parsers for Go. The one included in the standard library is just that and nothing more: included in the standard library. It is not privileged in any manner (beyond that brute fact), it has no access to any sort of internal standard-library only functionality that gives it access to performance external packages can't have, it isn't particularly integrated forcibly into anything else included with Go, it is not mandatory, it is not even something the community deeply believes must be used and anyone who uses alternate mechanisms is violating any sort of nebulous community standard. It's just a package.

This is one of those cases where people often rather casually say "I don't like how Go handles X", or, indeed, any language with a standard library (this is not a Go-specific problem) when they really ought to say something more like "I don't like how the standard library flags package in Go handles X". But it's not the language doing it, it's the library. For a non-Go example that I've encountered in the wild, it isn't really appropriate to say "I don't like Python's GUI", referring to the built-in Tkinter binding. It's just a library. Python's got a dozen other choices, including direct bindings to every major toolkit in every major OS. It's not "Python's GUI", it's just one that ships in the standard library, not the sum total of all of Python's GUI capability.
This analysis examines how Alibaba's Quark (with 33.69M daily active users) is pioneering a fundamentally different approach to AI interaction. Their 'AI Super Frame' uses a three-tier agent architecture (understanding, planning, execution) that processes fragmentary user input without requiring structured prompting. While Western AI tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT focus on conversation quality and information retrieval, Quark prioritizes task completion - reflecting broader East/West differences in product philosophy. Does Quark's integration-focused approach represent a more intuitive future for AI interfaces?
Show HN: Eye strain from reading on your Mac? Give BlinkMore a try
I often don't blink enough when reading on my Mac, so I built BlinkMore to encourage better blinking habits. It tracks your eyes and fades the screen if you aren't blinking enough. Hope this app is helpful :)
You'd think so, but the government of California was performing involuntary sterilizations until 2014. An ICE facility in Georgia performed them until at least 2020. It's legal under state law in over half the country.

What's different today that would create a massive outcry that there wasn't 4 years ago?
It also requires registration to use it.
You mean of the people that voted? Or of the population? Both are different figures and both would be incorrect.

A very quick search; https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/18/men-and-w...
We had one without the other. The “LinkedIn influencer” only came to existence in the past 5-6 years. Before that, 99% of people never browsed LinkedIn, you only ever used it to lookup other people and job search.

What made it turn into this cesspool, is the endless engagement optimization and pursuit of profit above all else.
Sure does. If it leaked from a lab, media and Republicans can build a narrative that Trump was not at fault for his poor handling of the pandemic.
Ask HN: Would your company/startup pay $1K to $11K a week for a sponsorship ad?
hi hn!

i'm a cs student starting a developer vlog and blog on indie hacking and my journey on youtube and on my website, sharing, comparing and reviewing the tools I use to everyone.

obviously this takes a lot of time for me to do, so I plan to sell sponsorships on my channel and banners on my website and on feeds. i am considering a newsletter if i get time maybe.

while i've been researching and i've seen somewhere that someone is making $8K to $11K a week on sponsorships for a blog with no newsletters, and $5K a month on banners for a game.

these prices are very very expensive, since my audience (developers) HATE ads entirely, which has put me in a dilemma with pricing and has gotten me a bit discouraged for trying to make an income to pay for making videos and my cs degree.

i was considering $600 a week or month for these ads, but when going to companies for even $100 a week when i started, i was told this was "highly expensive" and i seen a company ad on a blog / podcast which was charged for $12K a month.

if you had a company what would you pay a sponsorship for if you had to and if you're a developer would you even mind sponsorship ads at all?

i don't know what i am missing here and still very new to this, so help is appreciated.

thanks!

ines
Agree! But it's not impossible. I signed up for Bluesky in late 2023 and it was... like a tumbleweed tumbling across my screen. But now? It really feels like they've crossed some kind of threshold and it very much feels like Twitter back in the day™. I think they just crossed 30m users, maybe that is the magic number?
The futuristic biotech startup that's building a cancer cure with $355M
It's about the separation of powers. Law-making, adjudication, and execution should be separate branches so that no one branch gets too much power, as that will lead to dictatorship. When Trump and Musk are ignoring judges' orders and going ahead with their sledgehammering, it sets a dangerous precedent for what the POTUS can get away with.

Ofc there's more to this story than just DOGE too.
https://archive.is/eV2f2
I disagree on the central bank and gold standard. Other than that, I agree.

To me, one of the fundamental, basic changes is indoor plumbing (and with it, clean water). That is a game changer. Heat is a really big deal; getting it from something more efficient than a wood stove that only heats half a room is big plus. Refrigeration for food. Easy transportation. The internet.

Now, you can look at the internet and see that it is not purely a win. Same with cars. Still, would I go back to, say, 1900, or even 1980? No.
I use short options when I'm typing at the command line,
but for scripts I prefer the long options by a wide margin.
It's just too painful to come back to script after some time and see a string of short options that looks like line noise barfed out of a 300 baud modem.
That's why code was invented in the first place no? But now LLMs are in the ballpark where lay people can describe something vaguely and get a working MVP. Whether you can ship, scale, and debug that code is a completely different question