skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supreme Court allows Trump to terminate 16,000 probationary federal workers
One would hope they’d create something like Google drive except you own your stuff that people would pay for.
>The world's population is projected to continue growing for the next 50 to 60 years

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population
Were the terms confidential? If not, would you be willing to share what kinds of terms a deal like this has?

(If you have any doubt whatsoever about whether the terms are confidential, assume they are, and don't put anything at risk.)
hahah i feel the pain, love the idea!
congrats!

from now on you gotta doublecheck your Signal groups though :-)
> There is circumstantial evidence out there that 4o image manipulation isn't done within the 4o image generator in one shot

I thought this was obvious? At least from the first time (and only time) I used it, you can clearly see that it's not just creating one image based on the prompt, but instead it first creates a canvas for everything to fit into, then it generates piece by piece, with some coordinator deciding the workflow.

Don't think we need evidence either way when it's so obvious from using it and what you can see while it generates the "collage" of images.
I linked this to my team and got back "I had almost identical experience with some candidates though no one admitted faking" and "One candidate just disconnected and was never heard back from after being asked to remove virtual background".

Interviewing is hard. Over the years the one thing I have learned is that for a technical role you want to interview people for how they THINK and REASON. This is hard and requires a time investment in the interview.

Back in the day when interviewing people for roles in networking, data center design, etc. I used to start by saying I am going to ask you a question and unless you have seen this very specific issue before you will NOT know the answer and I do not want you to guess - what I care about is can you reason about it and ask questions that lead down a path that allows you to get closer to an answer - this is the only technical question I will be asking and you have the full interview time to work thought it. I have people with 4+ CCIE family certs (this is back when they were the gold standard) and 10 year experience have no idea how to even reason about the issue. The candidates that could reason and work the problem logically became very successful.

For coding at my company now we take the same approach. We give candidates a problem with a set of conditions and goal and ask them to work through their approach, how they would go about testing it, and then have them code it in a shared environment of their choosing. The complexity of the problem depends on the level the candidate is interviewing for. For higher level engineerings besides the coding, we include a system architecture interview, presenting a requirement, taking the time to answer any questions, and then asking the candidate how they would implement it. At the end we do not care if it complies, what we care about is did the candidate approach the problem reasonably. Did they make sure to ask questions and clarifications when needed. Did their solution look reasonable? Could they reason on how to test it? Did their solution show that they thought about the question - IE, did they take the time to consider and understand before jumping in.

Anyone can learn to code (for the most part). Being able to think on the other hands seems to be something that is in short supply.
I don't get the need to make Usonian an acronym. Either way, it's too bad the nomenclature got stuck in Wright's little cul-de-sac instead of being more widespread, I think all of the nations of the Americas would be ecstatic to have the word "America" and "American" back.
Yeah it sucks, but for many even in a good economy, you will struggle like that coming from a small college that isn’t well known or just not looking the right way. Life isn’t fair, just do what you have to, to get by
> What then? Should I be unemployed?

Clearly philosophically I would love a world where everyone was taken care of, but this is a job market. All that money devs were getting this last decade has the dual side that tech is an aggressively capitalist industry. Competition is getting much more heated and, having been brought up in the dotcom bust, no not everyone who "wants" to be a software engineers gets to be one. I saw many, many people leave tech for lesser paying but at least hiring careers back in the early 2000s.

I feel that a lot of people that got into tech during this decade long boom period have never really experienced competition. In the last few years companies were often adding positions faster then they could fill them. If you passed the test, you got the job.

When I was getting started, virtually all hiring involved first building a pool of applicants, which could easily take weeks or months if the hiring team/manager wasn't happy with the quality of the pool. Then you had to interview with 5-10 other candidates that the team felt where at a similar strength to you. So even if you did your best, all it took was one other candidate that was better or even simply got a long better with the team to mean you didn't get the job.

You also had to wear a suit to an interview, even if it was for a role making a bit more than minimum wage.
People do buy $3000 Apple products. You're going to be more specific and talk about price difference as a percent not an absolute value to make your point.

But let's be charitable and assume that you're saying that the price of Apple products will double if the cases are machines in America -- I don't think that would be the outcome.

What percent of the cost of an apple product goes to towards the aluminum case? What percent of that cost is the material, what percent of that cost is the milling machine, and what percent is the labour?

It's not foolish to want to maximize manufacturing capacity in America and minimize it in China. If you want to be able to beat China in an armed conflict then manufacturing is what will do it -- not software development.
This is the reason.

I've fixed old electronics myself sometimes and quite often it's doable and the spare parts usually cost approximately nothing. However, paying someone 50 euros for half an hour worth of work to fix a thirty euro Christmas decoration doesn't feel like a good deal. Maybe for 10 or even 15 euros it would be.
Looks like it could work nicely with HTMX.
> who cares what experience in your resume was a lie and what not

Just being blunt: that's called Fraud. Making false representations for personal gain (employment, in this case) is one of the classic examples.

It doesn't matter if nobody checks in the moment, or if you usually get away with it, dishonesty is dishonesty. If I were to discover that someone joined my team under false pretenses, you can bet I'll have very little faith in their credibility going forward.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual... :

> The Fourth Circuit, reviewing a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2314, also noted that "fraud is a broad term, which includes false representations, dishonesty and deceit." See United States v. Grainger, 701 F.2d 308, 311 (4th Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 947 (1983).
When they raised the 100M three years ago, I'm pretty sure they said they didn't need it and were saving it for a rainy day (or words to that effect), always seemed very odd at the time. Two q's for anyone who cares to speculate: have they burnt the original investment already? And if not, why would they need more funding? AFAICS there's no real competition in the market place for their product today, the only thing I can conceive is that they have a secret 'tailscale 2' project in the wings which is massively developer or capital intensive. Let's hope it is nothing related to AI band wagoning :-)
Repo link https://github.com/game-node-app
"Terms of Service" are a contractual manner, and in most situations are just treated as suggestions. Whether or not the companies stand in violation of copyright is still being determined. I fail to see what laws they otherwise think don't apply.

On the contrary, it seems there's a lot of people on the Internet who think copyright means something different than it actually does, and therefore justifies them their Dog in the Manger attitude.
Sounds similar to China / WeChat situation, from what I've read previously
> It's absorbing a third of California's generation at solar peak and then delivering a third of demand in the evening.

Citations:

https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-beats-the-heat/#batteries-e...

https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-08-25/b...

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO/72h/hourly
The USA already dictates the direction of much of the world economy through its position in the WTO, and you are correct that the tariffs will cause more independent production. That’s part of the intention. Europe specifically is underproductive and the hope is that these tariffs and the change of tone for defense agreements will bolster Europes domestic industrial and defensive capabilities.

I also realize how incredibly complex modern supply chains are and how disruptive these tariffs are. While it seems clear to me the previous trade situation was unsustainable and going to break down without some sort of change of course, that doesn’t mean I’m in favor of the blanket tariffs or the way this was executed, and I don’t know whether it will work. I’m simply explaining the logic behind it, which is also more complex than just “a bipolar old man stomping left and right”.
Lua was designed for configuration, so I'd rather use Lua. Plus, it makes for a more elegant, unified design. TOML, and friends, are better paired with languages that were not designed for configuration.
You’ve conflated feature requirements with product documentation. The MECE documentation example is a feature requirement, not product documentation. A better title would be ‘feature requirement to code’. That is what the example feeds the AI, not product documentation. So, you haven’t solved the stated problem of a gap between product documentation and code. In fact, I think you should rewrite that first sentence as follows: 'The gap between product requirements and code implementation has always been challenging.’
Justice Dept. to pull back on some cryptocurrency investigations
Off topic but rerun.io is really cool. Never heard of it until I saw your project. Do you know if it does "replay" kinda like rosplay?
Staff UX Designer here.

Think about what you want out of a UX designer to make your work better.

What is their design process like? Do they involve engineering early on to be a part of the process? Do they have experience writing creative briefs or contributing to engineering design docs? What do their deliverables look like? Do they love prototyping with real data? Will they push you (FE) to go above and beyond on the projects you work on. And the other way around, how do they work around roadblocks like infra constraints and spaghetti code when they cant get their initial design vision built?

There are more questions you can ask, but again, you want to be trying to find out if you will enjoy working with them as a partner and not someone who just throws designs over a wall and is inflexible on engineering constraints.
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It the *right wing* Americans who go bananas calling you a communist. The left by and large wants to implement more social programs to reduce inequality and allow the growth of a middle class in our existing economy. You could probably say this is the crux of the culture war.
The unreliability and inability to debug are why I think these tools are actually a liability for any serious work.
From the DeepSeek paper, they did try but found that the model would learn to cheat the judge. It doesn't seem to be impossible, but probably a serious challenge.

> We do not apply the outcome or process neural reward model in developing DeepSeek-R1-Zero, because we find that the neural reward model may suffer from reward hacking in the large-scale reinforcement learning process, and retraining the reward model needs additional training resources and it complicates the whole training pipeline.
Reminds me of a slot canyon in Anza Borrego that’s called “fat man’s misery”
Did they actually tell you that? I highly doubt it. You've created a preconception that I guarantee is not accurate at all. You have multiple people here saying it's bullshit, and we're not lying or trolling or anything like that. I replied somewhere else but I want to reiterate - why would you even want approval from people who dehumanize others on the basis of TC? It's like being upset Martin Shkreli doesn't want to be your friend. I really hope you'll believe me
My compromise here is invisible words in the PDF. I pack it with every freaking keyword I can think of because I have absolutely no issues with lying to a robot and don't feel the need to a respect a hiring process where they can't be bothered to so much as read my resume. Funny enough I often get offers after that even when I don't have some specific technology.

That said, my personal ethics don't let me lie to an actual person.
OK, so what you really mean by "remove the subsidy" is "tax oil companies seven trillion dollars a year"? That may be a challenge for an industry that sold $2 trillion in the US last year, but if we're making up numbers, it'll work out.

But the larger issue is that this is driven by international emissions, so whatever the US does is essentially irrelevant to that outcome.
I'm not sure that it's a good thing if "ability to produce convincing lies" is something that a company requires in a job candidate. People getting into jobs who aren't exceptional liars when they couldn't have otherwise seems like win to me.
At that scale? Is that even possible?
so either you do it out of the goodness of your heart, or you maximize shareholder value at no expense

I'd sell out at $160M, too. I'm happy for them, and sad for everyone else.
I am on Arch and often end up with DNS broken in a way that requires me to restart tailscaled.
It's not a big deal. Llama 4 feels like a flop because the expectations are really high based on their previous releases and the sense of momentum in the ecosystem because of DeepSeek. At the end of the day, LLama 4 didn't meet the elevated expectations, but they're fine. They'll continue to improve and iterate and maybe the next one will be more hype worthy, or maybe expectations will be readjusted as the specter of diminishing returns continues to creep in.
Which factory was forced to sell/close because it was sanctioned?
How the US public and AI experts view AI [pdf]
Do you also habitually drop nails on the streets because you don't like how noisy cars are?
Again, I have to disagree - which I suppose reinforces the whole subjectivity angle. I was positive that Zaphod’s two heads were side-by-side to the extent that it pissed me off a fair bit in the most recent movie adaption (among, let’s face it, plenty of other candidates).

I don’t know if the “layout” of the heads is mentioned or not in the books - I’d have to go back and check - but it’s often quite jarring when a book becomes a movie and doesn’t match my inner vision (and how incredibly unthoughtful of them, to boot).
Wow. Reminds me of cash. Which has all those same properties.
The Biden tariffs were balanced by substantial incentives to build solar manufacturing capacity.

edit to respond to dead comment:

The Chinese wasted way more money on Solyndra's than the US did. Most of their solar power startups were failures too. Yet now they dominate because they subsidized more than one and didn't give up after one failed.
Yes. Every single transaction is open for the government to inspect. There is zero privacy in pix in relation to government surveillance.
It's also terrible output, even before you consider what looks like catastrophic forgetting from crappy RL. The emoji use and writing style make me want to suck-start a revolver. I don't know how they expect anyone to actually use it.
most places i visited (remote rural places like districts of > 300 people up to big cities) have a rechargeable card system where you can buy at any terminal

some buses in the surburbs of big cities only accept cards nowadays and you can recharge it online in 3 minutes (ofc if you are a citizen... brazilian goverment websites is a huge UX pile of shit; police, mail etc.)
Switching to desktop version of the site seems to work in all the major mobile browsers!
DDoS Mitigation Leak
Hells Angels a Strange and Terrible Saga is a good read too, that last passage made me want to go out and buy one immediately.
Previously you had to contact support to have it enabled, it worked well.

I just checked and my DO droplet can still receive emails on ports 25 and 465, and I can also talk from the droplet on both, and also 587.

So not sure what does this announcement means.
This seems like a polished, limited in scope version of what xbar[1] and SwiftBar[2] does. Personally, I love using the menu bar as the place for at-a-glance information. I currently use SwiftBar to provide status indicators for my audio devices with some hacky scripts I wrote to talk to my mixer.

[1] https://xbarapp.com/

[2] https://swiftbar.app/
The west coast is in for a rude awakening when they realize that they can't win a war against china with code, and they don't have jobs because they don't have chips to run their advertising code on anymore because China took Taiwan.

Manufacturing is what builds up strong economies and it's what saves lives by preventing wars as long as possible and minimizes casualties on your side in war by fielding troops with more/better equipment.
Parents give kids more melatonin than ever, with unknown long-term effects
Incremental zero-config code navigation using stack graphs with Tree-sitter at G (2021)
Illinois Genetic Information Privact Act
Can you elaborate how there's no possible way to use this technology without actively harming artists?

If a classroom of 14 year olds are making a game in their computer science class, and they use AI to make placeholder images... Was a real artist harmed?

The teacher certainly cant afford to pay artists to provide content for all the students games, and most students can't afford to hire an artist either.. they perhaps can't even legally do it, if the artist requires a contract... they are underage in most countries to sign a contract.

This technology gives the kids a lot more freedom than a pre-packaged asset library, and can encourage more engagement with the course content, leading to more people interested in creative-employing pursuits.

So, I think this technology can create a new generation of creative individuals, and statements about the blanket harm need to be qualified.
Until you say something the government doesn't like and they decide that part of your punishment should be lack of access to payment services.

I'd prefer a constitutional mandate or guarantee that this can't happen. Without it this is a noose. A convenient noose with lots of nice properties but a noose none the less.
I've had issues with tailscale dns for a while where I'll wake my mac up and the dns will just not work until I disable tailscale. I can then re-enable it and everything continues to work.

I logged a bug about it and the latest versions this seems to have gone away. I also moved away from the mac store variant and into the standalone. Not sure if that helped either.
EU: To protect Ukraine we must prevent their ability to have secure comms
Alex, the bird mentioned in the article, is also the first animal ever to have asked a question. When shown its reflection in a mirror, it asked what color it was.

We've trained chimps and gorillas for decades and they have never asked a single question
On the other hand, the share of power produced by coal (and other fossil fuels) in China has been decreasing for over 10 years while the US has remained relatively stable. This tend will also continue for the foreseeable future.
One of the motivations for Lux is to improve the nixpkgs Lua and Neovim ecosystems.
What reason would you have for that? What is it to you, how other people consume HN?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624417
Great to hear that you find Moldable Development meaningful. And it's even more interesting that you can find tools around to tackle your contextual analyses.

ggplot and Grammar of Graphics are very interesting indeed. With GT we have some support, but we focused so far on creating the underlying graphical stack first, one in which everything (including the editor and visualizations) is represented in a single rendering tree. This graphical stack already offers the possibility to create various kinds of graphs. The Grammar of Graphics is of interest for us, and we'll likely look at it in more depth in the near future, because it allows us to define graphs declaratively and serialize them across network.

What kind of analyses do you do? Only for data, or also for systems?

Also, if you have a chance, I would be interested in what you think about the distinction we make between defined and dynamic exploration towards the end of this chapter:
https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-a360...
There are plenty of enterprises that will pay them to run their services and provide better integrations while allowing open source users to continue. Now people will get upset because some of these things will be for those customers only but it is very hard to keep developing these things and give them out for free. Partially open source still allows those to extend the work they give to the community and they will probably still continue to have a free tier to get more enterprise customers in the end.