skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you try again?

There was another comment that mentioned that there's an issue with port killing code on Windows: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614145

I just published a new version of the @browsermcp/mcp library (version 0.1.1) that handles the error better until I can investigate further so it should hopefully work now if you're using @browsermcp/mcp@latest.

FWIW, Claude Desktop currently has a bug where it tries to start the server twice, which is why the MCP server tries to kill the process from a previous invocation: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/issues/812
Pragmatic Semi's New NFC Chip Embeds Intelligence into Everyday Items
Thank you.

Reading a book is entirely voluntary. I was offering it as a suggestion for the person that had the original question and which seemed interested in learning more.
"Trojan horse"? 95% of people currently access AI via web or mobile app; those are pretty JS-dominated, no?
An anonymous Twitter account sent markets reeling today
My point is, that the question of what is "good" behavior of LLMs in this game is either poorly-defined or has only bad answers.
Generally I agree with this advice, but if the goal is to make the dork findable with a modicum of plausible deniability this is fine.
macOS is literally certified Unix.
Most likely They are not going to be allowed to rest at all. Especially western humanity is basically sanitizing the whole earth below them of human culture and history and storing it away in boxes and vaults, and ephemeral digital files of dubious quality, centralized for some Library of Alexandria or Dresden Bombing atrocity to totally erase all the centralized records of humanity.

No one seems to think of these types of things, especially in todays world where everything is digital and even in places like America there will be nothing left but rather uninteresting rubbish piles of plastic and other toxic remains left where stick and drywall houses and junky metal warehouses used to be.

There will be no silver lined sheathes of common soldiers, no coins of any kind, let alone gold ones, there will be no hidden manuscripts, not even charred scrolls that could be recovered with the use of AI. There will not even be any buildings and castles that stood the test of time for 1000 years, or any new pyramids because it rich and successful don’t build grand and permanent anythings. Humanity will effectively have not only left a huge hole in history starting in about the 1980s, but there won’t even be anything left to discover in the ground from the past the way we are going. And worst, even the digital history is clearly starting to come under attack with censorship and deletion and even the IP rules where corporations just get to delete what they dem you should no longer have.
Reading through that website felt to me like trying to read the NKS book. It certainly feels like there's a there "there", but I'm either to unintelligent or can't devote the time to really get it, and then I move on
'The terror is real': US tech industry is scared to criticize Elon Musk
Windows Firewall Control is good, binisoft iirc.
In Pakistan Twitter is banned (and blocked by ISPs) because Twitter won't ban the accounts of people/orgs the Pakistani State doesn't like. So, Twitter is not accessible in Pakistan without VPN (which are psuedo banned as well).

Yet, all the politicians (both government and non-government), media personalities, and many state run institutions actively run Twitter accounts. So it is one of the primary ways to understand what they are saying.
Porsche explores EV battery recycling tech to power its new cars
Report them to LinkedIn.

edit: I'm talking about egregious cases where the name, location, picture, and work history are false, not the exaggerations you mention. The profiles have few connections since they do get flagged and recreated with a new false identity...
Sugar (cane or refined) wasn't really a thing in the Roman period, even for those who could theoretically have afforded it.
It's a good question, and I'm happy to provide more detail about the Personal Support-Raising requirement. Almost all of Prayvine's users raise their own financial support in order to do their mission/humanitarian work. Typically, this means that they ask their friends, family and faith community to partner with them by providing financial, emotional, and spiritual support for their work.

In order to build a better product for our users, I believe that it's important to deeply understand the challenges that they face, including support raising and having to be accountable to and communicate well with a team of donors and partners.

I do not expect the person in this role to raise 100% of their salary. I anticipate about 1 month of focused fundraising per year, and Prayvine would provide whatever amount of compensation is not covered by this fundraising. Because Prayvine is a non-profit organization, donations are tax-deductible and are subject to IRS laws governing donor intent (e.g. donations given to support this role cannot be used for any other purposes).

I know that this is an unusual requirement for an engineering role, and that the fundraising hurdle can seem daunting or strange. My hope is that for the right person, the ability to make a significant global, humanitarian, and spiritual impact is compelling and attractive enough to outweigh these challenges. I know that it has been for me.

I'm happy to answer other questions about this, or other aspects of the role. Please feel free to contact me directly at jobs@prayvine.org.

Cheers, Ian (founder/CEO)
> one of the reasons for lua's low adoption

I think moreso is the complete lack of any "batteries included" whatsoever. Not even something so basic as sockets are supported by Lua's stdlib. The ecosystem has had to fill so many gaps and a lot of that is dependent on Leafo and LuaRocks.

I'm hoping the great mlua Rust crate will help build the ecosystem since now it's mostly trivial to build easily-distributable native Lua packages in Rust.
This is missing Nim.
Heart Aerospace reveals X1 aircraft – thirty-seater commercial electric airplane [video]
They do do that. If it was merely for translation it would be okay, but usually it doesn't stop there.
Those problems are development challenges. The system is fully set up to allow it, even if Apple doesn't hand hold them through.
This is a pretty cool project.

One thing: it's rejecting dict lookups as invalid URL,
eg. `curl dict://dict.org/d:failure:fd-eng-fra`

I'm checking first here whether I missed something in the docs about not supporting DICT before I add issue to the GH repo
This situation terrifies me as an autistic person. I can’t fathom maintaining eye contact while taking the time to think about a response to an interview question, even over a video call.

I at least look up toward the ceiling while thinking so maybe that’s sufficient to not give off cheating vibes.
Unless you want to take a more nuanced view of the data.
I'm curious what happens if you run the LLM with variable names that occur often with nullable variables, but then use them with code that has a non-nullable variable.
For the same reason we spent £1.8m "licensing" iText PDF for Java..... And removing it with extreme prejudice immediately afterwards.

We had very keen developer upgrade all the libraries in our codebase as a "reducing technical debt" task that they decided to undertake themselves.

They couldn't get something working and posted a stack-trace to ask for help..... Some enterprising sales person in iText saw it and emailed them offering to help and asked a question about what they were running and the developer effectively told them they were running version 5 which they didn't even check (or possibly understand) is relicensed under AGPL or commercial license.

The legal threats from iText and the resulting fallout means we now do not allow developers access to the internet from their machines, even via a proxy, they have a separate RDP machine for that.

And they can only pull in libraries that are scanned via jFrog xRay and ensure the license of said library is "acceptable".

On the plus side, means we're doing something about supply-chain vulnerabilities.
That's interesting, that's a good point though.

Fundamentally, patriotism is no different than other kinds of celebrity worship, but practically, more people are willing to do terrible things in the name of patriotism than they are for any A List celebrity. Can substitute patriotism with religion as well. Patriotism seems more akin to religion to me, now that I think of it. I don't know if that is good or bad.
I see your point, but at the end of the day you look at the 30 biggest companies in Germany by market cap and they are essentially the same after decades which is not really a symptom of a dynamic economy (for good and bad).
I am not an expert in global economics but it may be worth mentioning that both Chairman Xi and Donald Trump have very strong personalities and neither wish to be seen giving in or losing so I could envision this dragging out to it's eventuality whatever that may be. China are losing their workforce and I suspect Donald's advisors are betting on that being a stress point that may force Xi to give in to economic pressure. I could even see this situation being intentional and planned in advance to weaken China prior to any proxy wars. The USA are only about 17% of China's global trade output and only 8.6% of their imports so maybe I am incorrect. For what it's worth I am not on anyone's team so I expect all sides will hate my opinions.
The survey you linked did not ask that question.
You are absolutely correct. Perhaps I should’ve worded “detrimentally destroyed” as “catastrophic failure.” The rebuild process between runs is fascinating to watch. I’ve never seen an engine torn apart so quickly!
How do you know that these models haven't been trained by running programs?

At least, it's likely that they've been trained on undergrad textbooks that explain program behaviors and contain exercises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK948fIFYpE
Feels like a security nightmare - this is far better distributed as a local desktop UI rather than one hosted.
AI definitely makes take homes and non live coding exercises less viable (and even live ones to an extent).

Not my favorite AI driven change as I think live coding is so high pressure it can give wrong signals.
Only among people who parrot language without ever looking anything up, and disregard or forget the remarks of those who do look up.
> I doubt it. This would likely have a significant negative impact on domestic EU car companies

They want to pair that with technology transfers, similar to how China forced other companies to do technology transfers when opening factories.
"Yes" doesn't explain your perspective, though. Obviously you can make money selling to other businesses. Nobody would think otherwise and the discussion that was taking place fundamentally wouldn't have been possible if that weren't the case. But what is it that you want to add to the discussion? That is what is not clear.

You put in time to tell us something. It is no doubt interesting. But, unfortunately, it got lost along the way. I am still interested in whatever it may be.
Demystifying the North Korean Threat
I thought that it might be a rare chance to invoke the NFL theorem appropriately, but I guess I was wrong. The NFL talks about a uniform distribution of problems. A case that is probably never the case. At least for habitable universes.

Nevertheless, the theorem basically states that there are games where AlphaZero will be beaten by another algorithm. Even if those games are nonsensical from our point of view.
If you're interested in a more scientific treatment of the topic, the post links to a technical report which reports the numbers in detail. This post is instead an attempt to explain the topics to a more general audience, so digging into the weeds isn't very useful.
SCIF (Wikipedia): A sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF /skɪf/), in United States military, national security/national defense and intelligence parlance, is an enclosed area within a building that is used to process sensitive compartmented information (SCI) types of classified information.
Would you be kind and share some examples?
Exposing Chrome CDP is a terrible idea from a security and privacy perspective. You get the keys to the whole kingdom (and expose them on a standard port with a well documented API). All security features of the web can be bypassed, and then some, as CDP exposes even more capabilities than chrome extensions and without any form of supervision.
From the perspective of the business, you need to generate more money than your wage plus whatever else expenses that are associated with your employment. This surplus is what adds up to the profit.

Let’s just put the simplistic “be a profit center” thing at face value. The funny thing is that you can generate 10% surplus or 5X surplus. The difference in benefit to the company is large. But your benefit might not be much. Maybe a wage increase, maybe not. Maybe better job security.

Now others have already questioned the “profit center” line here. With so much alienation in the work force it becomes laughable to claim that you can point to a group of individuals as “the profit center” or “the cost center”. This reeks of political jockying. Is Sales the profit center? Without Sales nothing would be sold... but without Engineering there would be no product.

What ends up happening is that the people who insist the loudest are the ones who get promoted to Profit Center. Maybe.
I think the ball is being hidden here while responding to a strawman, here's me waving the ball around high in the air:

I agree: other than innumerable exceptions*, 1st amendment says you don't get punished for just speaking something.

* slander & death threats are scratching the surface, a brief tour of SEC cases alone would leave you with hundreds. Easiest one for you to see why the simplistic view espoused is blinkered, is probably...idk, disturbing the peace.
https://www.justice.gov/jmd/gifts-and-entertainment#outside

You can bring coffee and donuts, those are even specifically called out:

> Modest items of food and non-alcoholic refreshments, such as soft drinks, coffee and donuts, offered other than as part of a meal;
> Except that Llama 4's license restricts you from using its multimodal features in the European union

The EU restrictions were added in 3.2's Use Policy, while 3.1 License introduced the restrictions on using model output for training other models. I've collated the changes here: https://notes.victor.earth/how-llamas-licenses-have-evolved-...

Besides that, I agree with what you're saying.
Or you simply account for it and provide equally challenging tasks adjusted for the tools of the time. Give them access to the best LLMs money can buy.

After all, they will grow up next to these things. They will do the homework today, by the time they graduate the LLM will take their job. There might be human large langage model managers for a while, soon to be replaced by the age of idea men.
Incidentally, I really-really like that they asked questions based on the person's resume.

That was typical before some students got handed a lot of dotcom boom money.

(And then somehow most interviews throughout the industry became based on what a CS student with no experience thought professional software development was about. Then it became about everyone playing to the bad metrics and rituals that had been institutionalized.)

You can ask questions based on a resume without them disclosing IP, nor the appearance of it.

That resume-based questions thwarted a cheater in this case was a bonus.
Ask HN: Exercises to learn new programming languages
Are there any good sites that provide exercises for learning a new programming language with out focusing on algorithms? I'm currently using AI tools with Python to write code with out much Python experience. While I can read and understand the code I feel like I have a surface level understanding of Python syntax. I'd like to go through exercises that focus on language features like loops, maps, etc, instead of algorithm focused sites such as LeetCode.
Look at the camera, not at the other person’s eyes on your screen. You are not maintaining “eye contact” but the other person will think you are. Genius!

It’s actually fun how in video calls everybody thinks they’re doing eye contact by looking at other people’s faces on screen which in reality makes them look down and not straight at the camera.
>> I think that Trump’s approach, while more theoretically valid than it is being given credit for, is the wrong one.

> I disagree that Trumps approach is "theoretically valid". So do 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists and the entire stock market.

Trump being wrong doesn't mean "16 Nobel Prize-winning economists and the entire stock market" is right if they disagree with him.

Actually, I'd bet "16 Nobel Prize-winning economists and the entire stock market" have a myopic view that misses a lot of important things. Make a tradeoff that favors one of the things they miss for something they're myopically focused on? They'll scream bloody murder, but no one should listen to them until they wise up and expand their view (which they probably won't, because economics is miasma of dogma and numbers).
> a company that is figuring out how to run back the extinction process

Are they, though? This isn't a dire wolf, it's a wolf with a few genes tweaked to make it look more like a dire wolf. I see no evidence that they have any intention of pursuing the far more arduous task of actually preserving an endangered species or restoring one with all of its actual DNA, and I don't see a compelling reason to believe that introducing a lookalike in the wild will do anything to fill the gap left by the real thing.
I've seen it more with candidates in Asia. And they claim to be based in the US :) A few even used digital face transplants, stuck in the uncanny valley, to hide it. I imagine it will be hard to tell in a few years.
There is about zero chance it is thought out and intentional. And by all reports, Trump does not listen to advisors and is surrounded by complete yes men.

As in, beyond sanewashing, this explanation does not pass the basic smell test.
The caveat with these things is usually "when used with high quality proxies".

Also I assume this extension is pretty obvious so it wont take long for CF bot detection to see it the same as playwrite or whatever else.
You know you can just not make eye contact during a video call. I dont remember the last time I ever bothered.
It's a bacteria, so it causes an infection.

Your body should be able to get rid of it by itself, but if it can't, the infection will grow and be fatal.

It's not just in Malaysia, but typically these cases are rare so it being widespread is worrisome. We have MRSA in North-America, but hospital processes eliminate most of the spread of bacteria through thorough cleaning.

It's not much to worry about if you're in a first-world country, but this may cause a lot of deaths in these countries, and force them to spend more on cleaning procedures.
The barrier to entry is the idea that you need a limited liability corporation to start something digital by the seats of your pants. You can always start as a GbR (virtually no costs, spend a day at your city's administration to get a tax id). I mean this in the most charitable way, what kinds of liabilities are you afraid of in that scenario?

Once your idea gets traction and money comes in you hopefully will be able to spare the 1 EUR you need for an UG. Anyway, I recommend investing into founding a GmbH as soon as possible, not for liability's sake but marketing's. You will not make inroads into corporate procurement without a "proper" incorporation.
Lee was supposed to be a lock for Oakland mayor. Why is the race so close?
Do you respect robots.txt so administrators can block this tool?
Hmm those archaic and vestigial options are probably still a pillar in many usecases :)

I'm still using the multi volume support in tar for example. Which was something that stems from the time when tar was used for tape archives (hence the name tar) on actual tapes. Without that I'd be really screwed because I use a box full of harddrives as backup "tapes" (which works surprisingly well I must say, I needed a small restore only a week or two ago and it really saved my bacon). But I bet 99.9% of tar users have no idea it can even do that.

Rsync is another one of those swiss army knives that people use for a lot more stuff than you might expect. Especially the remote capabilities are amazing.

The problem is that when you clone something but don't provide full compatibility, you're putting your users through much headscratching and frustration. It would be better to not name it after the original then so it's clear it's something different.
Setting this up for claude desktop and cursor was alright.
Works well out of the box with little setup, and I like that it attached to my active browser tab. Keep up the good work.
I would think there's almost more pressure in academia compared to private sector to sell your work as valuable.

By that I mean, in order to advance in ones career (assuming an intensive research track) one needs to bring in research money (i.e. regularly apply for funding) then publish research that came from that funding.

That funding needs to be managed (so basically a small business with allocating costs to equipment, labor, etc).

Then "sell" that published research at conferences.

Then manage/mentor a variety of students (because that's a key part of your labor supply).

And maybe even teach on top of that.

In private sector you just need to focus on your work making your boss/company money and if you want to manage people, learn how to communicate (listen and speak).
Anyone that’s been on the market lately know that some companies encourage AI use in various ways

so all I can say is fix your assessments because this whole “they cheated” idea isnt universal, and more likely matches what people do on your job already

but for anyone that didnt read this article yet, this one is just about embellished experience custom tailored to get the interview, and there was no technical assessment
If MIT graduates don’t get jobs, who else is getting them?