skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i refuse to believe a company that wasted $320 million dollars on "the electric state" could ever manage to do anything correctly. stripe the parking lot? stock the breakroom? clean the toilets? simply not possible.
A lower level employee also resigned specifically about this:

https://x.com/arjunaaqa/status/1909174905549042085?s=46
Icecast2 https://www.icecast.org/ with DeeFuzzer https://github.com/yomguy/DeeFuzzer to stream my music collection to my laptop and my phone.
Only the single leader committed the crimes?
You mean how to launder crypto so you don't have to pay taxes? Or buy from the dark net?
I can only remember one major outage from them in the past ~10 years (in the 2020s, not the 2012 outage), and if I recall correctly, it was fixed in short order...and they never released a postmortem
> How many private sector people drew a pension at 40 and then double dipped?

Military is a unique subset of government, and IIRC most people who join don't stay long enough to draw a pension.

When you said "government retirees," that brings to mind the civil service, which I believe is larger.
> The secretive nature of Cyc has multiple causes. Lenat personally did not release the source code of his PhD project or EURISKO, remained unimpressed with open source, and disliked academia as much as academia disliked him.

One thing that's not mentioned here, but something that I took away from Wolfram's obituary of Lenat (https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/09/remembering-doug...) was that Lenat was very easily distracted ("Could we somehow usefully connect [Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language] to CYC? ... But when I was at SXSW the next year Doug had something else he wanted to show me. It was a math education game.").

My armchair diagnosis is untreated ADHD. He might have had had discussing the internals of CYC on his todo list since its first prototype, but the draft was never ready.
> critical component of both medicine and rocket science

Do you know a lot people who ended up having to write software for rockets or medical devices after applying for a generic web development job?

> from someone who put in the work to actually be qualified

That’s all very nice. Unless you end up being that someone yourself.

> and harming your future coworkers by deceiving them.

That’s highly debatable. It’s possible a lot of them did the same thing and unless you outright lied (instead of exaggerating etc.) and are still able to do the job is it really “deception”?

Anyway.. there is a lot of nuance and lying vs not lying is not even remotely a binary thing.
I got a few months of free Kagi with a Pragmatic Engineer newsletter subscription and I'm enjoying it. It reminds me of old Google before it got polluted. Kagi can't do anything about the web itself being polluted, but the search experience is good. I use Gemini a lot as well.

I'm very disappointed in Apple that changing the default browser in Safari requires you to install a Safari extension. Super lame stuff.
Java is dying and it paid off my mortgage
Location: Overland Park, Kansas, USA

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: Java, JavaScript,Spring, Spring Boot, React, Angular,HTML,CSS,UI/UX Design Principles,Microservices Architecture ,RESTful API,Docker, Kubernetes, AWS,PostgreSQL, SQL Server,MongoDB,Apache Kafka,JUnit, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Test Automation, TDD, BDD,Git, IntelliJ, Maven,MS Office,Microsoft Teams,Windows, Linux.

Résumé/CV:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vfi7JY9KaKoCy15FVxSeB_y3WIc...

Email: kishorejambala@gmail.com

LinkedIn :https://www.linkedin.com/in/manikanta-kishore

I’m a Software Engineer with experience in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, UI/UX Design, and API Development. Skilled in developing scalable applications, designing intuitive user interfaces, and deploying cloud-based solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. Passionate about problem-solving, collaboration, and continuous learning in emerging technologies, I’m now seeking a Java Developer role where I can leverage my technical skills and contribute to the growth of the organization while advancing my career.
> Microsoft turns 50: A look back at everything from the Altair to the Zune

Embrace, extend, extinguish.
You're not responding to the part where parent says the result is not 1/2 as in 0.5 but 2-Jan. The boobytrapped date parsing appears to be still happening even with "Automatic Data Conversions" disabled.
Well, before desktop publishing, by phototypesetting [1], before that by hot-metal typesetting [2], before that, by hand. Nowadays, with software like Adobe InDesign, of if you happen to be a CS/math/physics nerd, with LaTeX, which has a famously high-quality layouting engine that utilizes the Knuth–Plass line-breaking algorithm [3]. Indeed it's fairly well known that Donald Knuth created TeX because he wasn't happy with the phototypeset proofs he received in 1977 for the second edition of The Art of Computer Programming, finding them inferior compared to the hot-metal typeset first edition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phototypesetting

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_metal_typesetting

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Plass_line-break...
Because vanilla flowlogs that you get from VPC/TGW are nearly useless outside the most basic use cases. All you get is how many bytes and which tcp flags were seen per connection per 10 minutes. Then you need to attribute ip addresses to actual resources yourself separately, which isn't simple when you have containers or k8s service networking.

Doing it with eBPF on end hosts you can get the same data, but you can attribute it directly as you know which container it originates from, snoop dns, then you can get extremely useful metrics like per tcp connection ack delay and retransmissions, etc.

AWS recently released Cloudwatch Network Monitoring that also uses an agent with eBPF, but its almost like a children's toy compared to something like Datadog NPM. I was working on a solution similar to Netflix's when NPM was released, was no point after that.
I feel like your game could fit into a similar bracket format where everything is displayed on one page. I don't know how the UI of selecting emojis would work there though.

It took me longer than it should have to realize the last puzzle was made up of all my previous answers.

Spoiler: I also failed miserably at the last puzzle since I was thinking watergun and not gun so I thought it was a firefighter. I also couldn't tell that one emoji was a jail so just sort of ignored it. So that's mostly on me for having trouble understanding some of the emojis.
To be fair it seems to average 1:1 with some surge and recede.
Because no one wants to drink water all day every day and nothing else.
LeCun making up results ... well he comes from Academia, so ...
It's also about what you are avoiding. Its clearly a trade off, as you lay out. But then you are opening up another set of problems you will have to tackle. For the interviewer in the article, they prefer cameras.

It's not much different than choosing to interview people who will come into the office. Of course you are limiting yourself to people in the area. But employers know this.

Also, this idea that there is a single best candidate is rubbish. There are multiple candidates that are just as good as the next. And every person has their ups and downs, as well as trade offs. I also find it hard to believe that most employers are going to be able to tell the difference on such a fine scale as to not be able to choose certain limiting factors.
Pre-observable, I used d3 to develop a very complex visualization with real-time updates. It was difficult because d3 has a lot well-thought-out-but-complex concepts, but the docs and examples helped me fully understand how it worked, and the result turned out spectacular.

A few years later, I needed to build a simple novel visualization. A major new version of d3 had come out, and all the examples and documentation got Observable-ified.

Enough time had passed that I could only vaguely recall some of the original concepts, so I set out to re-learn. YMMV but, for me, it was impenetrable. With the limited time I had, I just couldn’t figure out how to untangle d3 from observable. I gave up. Very sad.
I think you mean it's SOAP all over again.
A Platform for Falsifiable Ideas and Rational Refutations
I’m building a small web app where users post falsifiable conjectures and others respond with refutations, inspired by Karl Popper’s idea that knowledge grows through bold claims and critical testing.

How it works (MVP):
• Users submit a conjecture (e.g. “UBI reduces non-violent crime”).
• Each conjecture must include clear falsification criteria — what would prove it wrong.
• Others post refutations: counterexamples, critiques, or better hypotheses.
• Conjectures can be revised in response to valid criticism.
• Future features: prediction markets, citation formats, version histories.

Why I’m experimenting with this:
• Most online platforms reward persuasion, not falsifiability.
• Forecasting platforms (like Metaculus or Manifold) focus on probabilities, not explanations.
• This is meant to support idea evolution, not just outcome prediction.

Early stage:
Built with Rails 8 and TailwindCSS. Still private, just validating whether this concept is useful or pointless.

Looking for feedback on:
• Would you use something like this? Why or why not?
• Is this meaningfully different from a smart blog comment section?
• What is the smallest useful version of this?
• What would make this fail completely?

If you’re interested in trying it or think it’s a terrible idea, I’d genuinely appreciate your thoughts.
Whether or not it is true has nothing to do with my point. My only point is that what you claim the OP said is not what the OP said.
You write a novel to say “we can’t really know,” then act like that’s some brave intellectual stance. It’s not. It’s just a way to dodge moral clarity.

Defectors are “outliers”? Of course they are—it’s a police state. That’s how tyranny works. You don’t get a representative sample when dissent gets you killed.

You’re not offering insight. You’re drowning basic truths in a flood of words to avoid saying anything with weight. At some point, skepticism becomes cowardice.

Say less. Mean more.
Pedantry Alert:

> The mantra is "nuclear" or "regional" organization in birds rather than layers in mammals, but the anatomy [0, Fig 4] and electrophysiology [1] abstract this out in similar patterns.

Marsupials too! Sort of.

Generally, marsupials are mostly close to other mammals in brain structure, but they do have a fair bit less layers and some nuclear structures.

Comparative neuroanatomy in vertebrates is, like, super interesting (to me at least). It really goes to show off evolution and how her pressure is really towards more babies - however that needs to be accomplished.
Same happened in germany but sadly, dwd (the national weather service) lost. They _have_ to take money if you want their weather app.
Btw, if you’re looking to migrate to Vue 3, hit me up on github. Handle is the same as it is here :)
Awesome [hunted [___ crackers are ironically vegan]]! I found the d[[not amateur, abbreviated]gramming construct preceding "else"]ficulty just [___ to remain [___ but deadly]].
95% of the world doesn't live in America, all the more for the rest of us. America can enjoy its beautiful coal.
Do you use something different? Anecdotally, I find Disney+ to be a major divider. Friends of mine have kids and Disney+ and/or they're still using a decade-old Netflix subscription.
Terraforming Mars Will Require Hitting It with Mulitple Asteroids
I think my employer decided to remove all non-executives at some point to ward off headhunters. Not sure how much it helps considering everyone's on LinkedIn.
The biggest ones by far is the lack of a carbon tax and, as a sibling comment notes, not having to pay for the health effects of their product. If you factor in the likely costs of climate-induced deaths, the total costs will be almost certainly be more than the total value of all fossil fuels ever extracted. The lack of these costs is therefore the ultimate subsidy in that the entire global industry, and in a sense all human civilization as currently constituted, is premised on keeping these costs unaccounted for. Presumably this is the kind of thing you mean by "specious" though.

Still there are lots of carve outs for the way extraction equipment and other capital costs are accounted for in tax law that are effectively direct subsidies to the oil industry. These won't end the practice of fossil energy use like ending the big ones would, but any little bit helps. Would also be nice to stop leasing out government land to do this incredibly destructive thing with it -- at least make drillers own the land or lease it from a private owner.
The EV startup backed by Jeff Bezos
I find LLMs useful for the case where I'm not sure what the right terms are. I can describe something and the LLM gives me a term which I then type into a search engine to get more information. I'm only starting to use LLMs though, so maybe I'll use them more in the future? - only time will tell.
It is worth plodding ahead with symbolic AI research because:

- much less resource hungry / planet warming

- auditable chains of inference
anyone care to share how they are spending money? labor, operations (training, transfer fees), marketing & business development. It's different than industries I'm more familiar with.
Bespoke GUIs on the Fly (2023)
> the HOME and END keys also jump to the start/end of the textbox, instead of the start/end of the line

This is a consequence of developers who never use anything but Mac and don't even realise this is wrong. Which is especially egregious for a product that an overwhelming majority of their customers will only ever see on Windows.
Not dying at all. Other languages talk a good game about threads, Java has a good story about threads... and virtual threads. I'm writing large complex applications instead of fighting with the borrow checker to do what Software Tools did in the 1970s. When Valhalla drops, the performance gap will close a bit more.
Books were produced before computers, and with very good typesetting. One difference between websites and books is that theee is a feedback loop with books where somebody ia at looking at the layout and either adjusting the spacing subtly, or even editing the text to avoid problems. Sometimes this is just to ensure that left justified text isn’t too ragged on the right edge, sometimes it’s to avoid river of space rubbing through a paragraph, and sometimes it’s editing or typesetting to avoid orphans.

But text on a page is set for a set layout, and that’s where the web really differs.
They publish plotly.js and react bindings as well.
> Saccharin breaks the walls of bacterial pathogens, causing them to distort and eventually burst, killing the bacteri

Sugar, salt, kerosene and, for example, ethanol, do the same. What is special about saccharin?
Your product looks great. Do you have an open-source or self-hosted version for companies with strict security requirements?
Location: Lithuania (EU)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Europe
Technologies: Linux, Python, Digital Ocean, MATLAB, LabVIEW
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KUqIhBD49ftE6rQ2FYkLAdBL-Kc7DyCvLrKG-ZjNEJY/edit?usp=sharing
Email: crogers5109@gmail.com

Greetings. I'm an experimental physicist with a varied career in engineering seeking to apply my experience to software projects. Some examples: I've completed a laser pulse optimization program utilizing a genetic algorithm developed with a combination of Mathematica and LabVIEW. Also, I've simulated magnetic fields for MRI machines and satellites developed using python, Elmer FEM and MATLAB. Furthermore, I have experience with object recognition projects for robotics applications and have implemented control algorithms for optics hardware.
What sort of hardware is needed to run a model like this at a vaguely useful speed?
They are correct in terms of nutrition and sugar, but most kids can process a lot of sugar fine.

Fruit has also been bred to be much sweeter and less nutritious than it was 50 years ago, so there's that too.

Moderation is the key to everything.
It would illustrate the phrase "rubbing salt into someone's wounds" nicely
I like the first link as fair analysis, but you clearly inserted your own bias (which ChatGPT framed its responses around) by asking leading questions in the second link.

For instance, it responded:
"it tries to delegitimize the IRS program by associating it with political actors assumed to have bad motives."

Scott Bessent is inherently associated with the IRS and its programs in his official capacity. If he has bad motives, I didn't say it.
Isn't SEPA instant kinda mandatory by the end of this year? (it mustn't cost more than regular transfers)
That's true, but I think the OP is commenting on the state of FE development :)
There are some polling centers in PA and NC that were the targets of bomb threats. The only reason I know this is because there has been an ongoing effort to recount some of these precincts and they keep getting stonewalled.
Nope. Feature requirements are part of the standard product development process, not a part of product documentation. In thirty years of writing product documentation, I’ve never once heard this usage. You are confused by obscure sources that are not referred to in the technical writing community.
It probably has to do with not being American, but at least here in italy it's completely fine to drink water and only that on a regular day. I do give that there's probably more variety, I know some people having preferences for certain bottled waters over others

(I'll gladly drink whatever water I find, but I'm not a fan of the plastic taste of some bottled waters and definitely a hater of refrigerator-cold water)

From my holidays in the US I recall shops, even small ones, having lots of drinks. Like, shelves and shelves of any alcohol free drink (and some abv ones) one could imagine. Here I go to my neighborhood small supermarket and there's coke, lemonade, Fanta, tonic water, a few local products such as spuma and that's it
Show HN: SkySearch – realtime browser-based semantic search of Bluesky jetstream
Browser-based app that subscribes to the BlueSky Jetstream [1] and displays new posts that are semantically similar to a given query.

It spawns a bunch of Web Workers to compute embeddings for every post using MediaPipe Text Embedder [2], then compares cosine similarity to the embedding computed for some query text. It displays any posts that are semantically similar enough to the query, based on a similarity range slider the user controls.

It seems to work well on a MacBook Pro M2. On an iPhone 12 it can't keep up. A warning toast will popup if your device is falling behind.

[1] https://docs.bsky.app/blog/jetstream

[2] https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/text/text_emb...
I don't entirely disagree but my kid was with me and I feel like I need someone now to reassure her that blending doesn't magically remove vitamins from food.

( I asked her if blending tomatoes for sauce removed the nutritional value but that's different for reasons that no one understands. )

I'm with you. Eat a variety of food and as close to the natural source as possible. If you think that orange juice and mountain dew are the same because of sugar content than you've lost the plot.
> Just because you perceive as such doesn't mean I meant it as that.

Fully agree, nor was it my intent to imply otherwise. But once uttered, we can't control how other people interpret our words. I see clarifying these differences in interpretation and gaining a shared understanding as the primary purpose of a thread like this.

> Earth is never a stable place. Ecosystems are a constant rise and collapse of dietary chains, continents aren't standing still, and cataclysms are a dime a dozen. Organisms causing mass extinctions are also nothing new under the Sun. Albeit, we do hold a speed run record I believe.

Again, agree. And yet, despite that instability, life on earth has rebounded or remained abundant up to this point given large enough timescales. What is different now is that we have some control over what may be the next major cataclysm. Whether or not we figure out how to collectively exert that control is another question entirely.

All I'm saying I that I hope we're not spending time trying to terraform mars while our own planet dies. If we can make mars habitable, we can rectify the situation here barring cosmic scale events that doom earth entirely.
The old linotype machines had visual indicators of minimum and maximum line width, and the operator would make a judgement call with each line. Spacers would then automatically justify the letters. It was all mechanical and amazing.

See http://widespacer.blogspot.com/2014/01/two-spaces-old-typist... for many details.
Exclusively. I don't want to think of a question to ask, or think about phrasing some prompt so I get a useful result, I just want to through a few related words and terms into a search box and see where that gets me, and then use the results to refine my search terms further.
Meta cheats on Llama 4 benchmark
You can't put the other things you've listed on a wound in a hospital without some, uh... unpleasantness.
Bummer, it'd be awesome if i could point it at data i already have, even if that meant a reduced feature set.
> TBH I'm very surprised Yann Le Cun is still there. He looks to me like a free thinker and an independent person. I don't think he buys into the Trump agenda and US nationalistic anti-Europe speech like Zuck does. He may be giving Zuck the benefit of the doubt, and probably is grateful that Zuck gave him a chance when nobody else did.

Zuck doesn't buy it, either. He just knows what's good for business right now.

In an example of the worst person you know making a great point, Josh Hawley said "What really struck me is that they can read an election return." [0].

Though it's worth remembering, it's very difficult to accumulate the volume of data necessary to do the current kind of AI training while sticking to the strictest interpretations of EU privacy law. Social media companies aren't just feeding the user data into marketing algorithms, they're feeding them into AI models. If you're a leading researcher in that field - Like Le Cun - and the current state-of-the-art means getting as much data as possible, you might not appreciate the regulatory environment of the EU.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5302712/senator-josh-ha...
Ah, the good old "you’re not allowed to criticise open source projects, because they’re open source!"

Observable is cool when you want to build data notebooks. Observable is obnoxious if you want to add a D3 pie chart to your Vue application and have to untangle calls to D3’s API from reactive cell values, which look like ordinary JavaScript, but are not, and will cause compilation and runtime errors when copied.

The problem is that D3 resources mix D3 documentation with demos of D3 itself, and demos of Observable, into a single, inseparable combination. Nobody would complain were those three things separate resources; alas, they’re not.

Every time someone raises this issue, they are shot down by people like you, with the same nonsensical argument—just because the maintainers write cool demos in a fringe datavis DSL, that doesn’t automatically mean it’s helpful for the 99% use case of rendering charts in normal apps.
Your comment currently adds nothing to the discussion, and isn't intelligible.

Please add more words.
Is that not self evident? When people engage in labor for the task itself (as opposed to a heavily abstracted version of not wanting to starve) we generally refer to that as a hobby.

So stating that people shouldn't need to worry about starving (metaphorically or otherwise) would be roughly equivalent.