skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forget about the safety issues of the distilling itself (and the risks of accidentally creating methanol), I'd be far more concerned with the safety and public-health issues of cheap, unregulated access to high-proof alcohol.
There are levels to this. Most people will at least prepare a resume and visit the company's website. That's interview prep.

You have to match the level of prep to the jobs you're pursuing. You don't need to grind LeetCode to have a SWE career. Most people never do that.

However if you're trying to get the more competitive jobs then some prep is necessary, as you already discovered with your Google interview.

The reason so many people do interview prep is that the ROI can be extremely high. Spending 100 hours grinding LeetCode sounds like hell to most people. Spending 100 hours doing practice problems to get a $100K raise for a job where you stay for 3 years suddenly becomes a $3000/hour career booster. That high paying job opens doors for more high paying jobs in the future, so the real number is even higher.

That's why people do it. You don't have to do it and it's not guaranteed to get you the high paying job by itself, but for people in the position to take advantage of it, the ROI is huge.
I'm in favor of whatever semi-monopoly enables fine grained permissions so Facebook can't en masse slurp Whatsapp (antitrust?) contacts
You should know at some point in the past year or so it was silently sold to a shady company which makes me VERY wary for something I gave screen recording permissions to. I'd never install Bartender on my machine again.
The questions dont require google; but what do you do when you don't know a specific thing? You search for it.

The notion that a candidate must remember the name of a thing or a specific algorithm is just ridiculous. When was the last time you implemented some fancy sorting or tree traversal algorithm from memory?

and if a guy thinks he's able to parse that amount of information in less than a minute, why should I refuse it? The end goal is to hire problem solvers, people with analytical thinking and capable of learning autonomously.

In most companies, the development process is collaborative - spikes, code reviews, informal meetings; why would you evaluate a candidate for such a team solely on what narrow knowledge he brings to the table when the power is down?
All my music cover images are AI generated. At the same time I refuse to listen to AI music. We're all going to sink alone on this one.

What's frustrating me is if I tell the Youtube algo 'don't recommend' to AI music video channels it stops giving me any music video channels. That's not what I want, I just don't want the AI. They need to seperate the two. But of course they need to not do that with AI cover images because otherwise it would harm me. :)
Does anybody encounter issues with DNS after installing tailscale with it's MagicDNS enabled? It drives me nuts because my entire network just stops working. I removed tailscale but still won't be able to connect to my Ubuntu server.
https://thedriven.io/2025/03/25/byd-leads-unstoppable-charge... ("In 2024, 3,100 GWh of fully commissioned battery-cell manufacturing capacity was online, more than 2.5x that of annual demand. This has driven massive demand growth for EVs and stationary energy storage (BESS) systems globally, with China continuing to dominate.")

Global BESS deployments soared 53% in 2024 - https://www.energy-storage.news/global-bess-deployments-soar... - January 14, 2025 ("Storage installations in 2024 beat expectations with 205GWh installed globally, a staggering y-o-y increase of 53%. The grid market has once again been the driver of growth, with more than 160GWh deployed globally, of which 98% was lithium-ion.")

China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-07-09/china-... | https://archive.today/DklaA - July 9, 2024

China Already Makes as Many Batteries as the Entire World Wants - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-12/china-... | https://archive.today/8Dy4D - April 12, 2024

Global BESS deployments to exceed 400GWh annually by 2030, says Rystad Energy - https://www.energy-storage.news/global-bess-deployments-to-e... - June 15, 2023
I'd argue its a bad concept in any spaces that involve teams of people working together and deliverables that enter the real world.
The current international situation as understood by a lot of people in republican circles is outline in detail here:

https://youtu.be/vDBZeHhx3YE

> The US reliably enforces international order and global trade now

Yes, which is why many believe now is the time to revamp our industrial capacity while we still have strategic dominance.

The war in Ukraine has illustrated the importance of mass drone production, and we currently lack a lot of the direct capacity to make them. A lot of our military supply chains are also based too heavily on components assembled and manufactured in China and in parts of east Asia that could easily be disrupted and cripple our ability to project power and play the role we currently play.
Can't even be penniless these days, you need a fancy electronic device, a data plan and reliable access to an outlet before you can beg for charity. Sad world.
Some other newspaper would quickly run a "The Atlantic stole a game developers game and you wouldn't guess what happened next" article, people would be upset for a day or two, original author might/might not sue and then business as usual unless judge rules in authors favor.
Depends on the niche. Original physical art for trading card games or comics is a significant chunk of the income of your typical artist. Digital art in those niches does not have this source of income. But then again digital art has other niches where the actual commission rates are high enough to not make this a problem.
Yep definitely does the job :)

https://geocities.live/news.ycombinator.com

I suppose it helps that it's already minimalistic HTML.
> ByPaul Lipman,Forbes Councils Member.
for Forbes Technology CouncilCOUNCIL POST | Membership (fee-based)

Is education so expensive in the US ?
They weren't asking Google questions. They were asking about basic pagination, which is an entry-level topic.

Hard to argue with their interview process when it successfully unmasked someone who didn't have the basic experience to discuss a simple topic.
Depends on content, sometimes i use GPT to find stuff im lazy for and i know google would waste my time more likely, but generally i still use google, there are a lot of miscellaneous searches where an LLM would do worse than a search engine (currency exchange rate, stock price, quick facts etc..) tho I wish google had an option to block some sites from showing up, some searches are just filled with garbage - and i would like to block the whole domain from ever showing up
As a matter of personal policy, I always try to avoid uploading (or allowing access to) sensitive documents to unknown third parties and their unknown supply chains.

I would like to see something that adds confidence for the user. Where is your Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Data Retention policies? What does the source code look like? I found in the FAQ the following passage; "Yes, your data is completely safe. All file conversion processing is done on Google's side, and Docs to PDF has no direct access to your files."

This doesn't really placate me. I would like to see a written policy, like a "WISP" of sorts, that is not going to change and is going to notify me when it does change.

My own background on this topic; I created HRConvert2, an open-source and self-hosted file conversion server that supports over 400 file formats in 13 languages. HRConvert2 would perform this conversion locally on user-supplied hardware.
Indeed, TF2 hats and gift cards appear to do something well that this system doesn't :)
You could do that with browser-use: https://browser-use.com/
Google's Keep Notes works well enough for me.
Meanwhile in the USA the whitehouse just bailed out the coal industry.
News to me, my SMTP servers on DO are still working just fine.
Short answer: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/revenu...

Long answer: There's no movement among major businesses to move off cloud providers, only putting more stuff onto. Every "we moved our stuff back on-prem and saved tons of money!" post I see on HN is from companies with miniscule (<$10k/month) cloud spend anyway.

For transparency, I have some bias since I worked at AWS. But the biggest competitors we saw while I was there were other cloud providers, not people moving back on-prem.
You are interpreting "labor" in a purely economic sense, but that's choice of framing.

What I'm getting at is that our actions are rewarding and meaningful when we put effort into them and they provide value (in the general, not economic sense) to others.

If I spend a day drawing you a picture, you get a warm fuzzy feeling because of how much I must care to sacrifice one of my finite days on Earth to make a thing just for you. If I spend ten seconds writing a prompt and an AI spits out an objectively prettier picture, it's still less meaningful and less valuable in every sense that matters. I gave up nothing to produce it and you gained little by having it.

> Therefore I am not bothered when we invent a new tool that might compete with human labor.

This is likely a luxury you have by being economically stable enough to not have to worry about how you're going to put food in your stomach today. While it's fun to imagine idyllic post-capitalist societies, artists today need to be able to afford shelter and healthcare. Generative AI will destroy their livelihood.

That may be a sacrifice you are willing to make (since it likely isn't coming to take your job), but I care too much about other people to be delighted by that.
A lot of the complexity is because HTML, as a document language, is unsuitable for the purpose of making apps, but because the browser is the only cross-platform environment we have (and pushing new versions is easy), that's what gets used.

It seems like what we need is a sort of an integrated virtual machine for each application. The OS provides a virtual CPU+memory machine, but that needs to extend to virtual filesystem, peripherals, displays (which the OS would draw into a window), network with user-limitable urls, etc. This would prevent apps from misusing the filesystem, enable users to limit surveillance network requests, and simplify graphics.
It's downvoted because it's plainly incorrect.
Why not use a function to add dependencies, e.g. `add_dependency "dependency@version"` or `add_dependencies { ...table-here... }`. This is, more or less, how premake works [1]. For `lx add ...` you'd append the function call to the script.

[1] https://premake.github.io/docs/Your-First-Script
How deep do you go? Where do you stop?

Just because you can find multiple independent sources saying the same thing doesn't mean it's correct.
> Side note, as far as a job requirements goes the bigger issue is asking for impossibly diverse experience and asking for things that can be easily learnt.

Really? That's the bigger issue?

Company wants to pay money to someone in exchange for services. They have unreasonable expectations. So that makes it OK for people to deceive them in order to have them believe that their unreasonable expectations have been met?

I don't think that unreasonable expectations should be rewarded. But an unreasonable expectation is just "being stupid and harming yourself."

Deceiving others in order to take their money under false pretences (which is fraud) is immoral and harms others.

The two are not remotely comparable.

> This promotes lying

No it doesn't. If someone feels "encouraged" to lie and defraud others because they want something from them (even if the "someone else" is objectively stupid), that is no one's fault but their own. And their wishes and desires are just as unreasonable as the company's. [The wish/desire on the part of the applicant is wishing that the company had reasonable expectations]
A common joke is to type in a description of some corporate IP and have ChatGPT generate it without ever saying it directly. Plenty of people have paid a subscription to do that, generate corporate IP that an artist could be sued over, but I don’t believe OpenAI has faced any legal issues if I’m correct, just as an example.
I mean, there's a reason they released it on a Saturday.
I tried to make Studio Ghibli inspired images using presumably their new models. It was ass.
Yeah, you need to be conscious about your tailscale domain, your .home (or whatever your router or dhcp server advertises) and your .local hostnames. Even if you’re aware, things are sometimes wonky, IME primarily on macOS.
How do you deal with this practically? If an American moved to the UK now (after April 6th of this year), how would you recommend dealing with it? Even if your answer is to get a tax accountant, do you recommend doing that early?
I just attended the Vintage Computer Festival in NJ last weekend. There was a talk at the end with a bunch of former Commodore employees (Commodore was based near Philadelphia). One of the speakers (old british guy) told a story about Mehdi Ali (https://tinyurl.com/9uubz3ba), how a software developer from Psygnosis gave him advice on how the Amiga could be better. He took it as being critical of him, and got extremely angry. This is something I've noticed before, is that the personality of the leader somehow propagates to the personality of everyone under them, defining the culture of the company.
I’d argue that would be fine for non-commercial use; it’s once the AI outputs are sold that the problem arises.
> I've been living in Brazil for the last 20 years.

> Cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance.

Yeah, if you enjoy having your money one hundred percent controlled by the brazilian government. I can't think of a more frightening proposition. You do realize this is the country that once suddenly confiscated everybody's money directly from their bank accounts, right?

Why did they do that? Runaway inflation. Just like its fellow latin american neighbors, Brazil has mismanaged all of its currencies and it will inflate the real to zero just like all the others, it's merely a matter of time. Just look at the country's economic situation. BRL is an absolute garbage currency. Why would you even want to hold onto this crap? You're better off holding USD if you can. You're better off holding real property if you've got the capital. You're better off holding bitcoins.

Cryptocurrency? They're basically the light at the end of the tunnel. You say you've lived here 20 years. Surely you know that judges are basically gods in this country. And we have judges admitting in writing that it's essentially impossible for them to seize or in any way touch your bitcoins without your secret keys. Do you seriously believe they have no chance? In this place? They're basically the solution to nearly every single problem in the "government is stupid" category.

Surely you know that the brazilian government sucks at pretty much everything except taxing you. And you're advocating for a system that essentially implements nation wide financial surveillance. Because our number one priority is to make taxation of an already heavily taxed people even more efficient, right? So that the politicians and judge kings can enjoy their world tours on tax payer money?

Pix is very convenient. That's all it is, and unfortunately that's all it needs to be to win the hearts of people. People won't be smiling after the government starts blocking their Pix keys for arbitrary reasons, preventing them from participating in society.
It's beautiful, but fundamentally I've always found Wright's Usonian ideal - the US population living in rear-facing cottages in the forest - to be repulsive.

I like forests. That's why I think they should be protected, and the best way to protect them is to not smear the entire population across them like very fine jam and carve infinite roads through them to provide them with transportation and government services like garbage collection.

The idea of presenting a bare facade to the street and turning the front entrance inward only makes this vision even more antisocial.

The man could make beautiful things but the planning principles needed to provide that beauty were fundamentally ugly.
My main method is the >400 points feed: https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=400

That gives a handful of items a day that I can decide if I want to read or not. I tweak the threshold every once and a while when I feel like I am getting too much or too little.

I also have a few other feeds that I am subscribed to for keywords that I am particularly interested in with much lower thresholds.

Then of course when my feed reader is empty I will sometimes just browse the site.
Perhaps it’s your phrasing? To use a particularly obnoxious phrasing from Wired Magazine as demonstration of how the tone of feedback can influence how it’s perceived:

Tired: “maybe you should rename X to Y”; lacks an explanation of why, ‘maybe’ is often sneering / condescending in this usage, assumes that proposed solution is correct

Wired: “fyi there’s a copy error on the site: X doesn’t match Z, should it be Y?”; explains the problem, asks if theorized solution is correct, makes proposing a solution optional

The chosen example tone is not intended as a reflection or judgment of you in any regard, but the necessity of this disclaimer supports my point.
devs dont understand IP law or business. it doesnt matter if youre “innovative”. the concept of your techn was already R&D by someone else. you are beholden to them and they may license it but you will never own it. innovation is over.
https://archive.is/Ec6V1
> is really a bad concept in this space, where you get limited shots at releasing something that generates interest.

Sure, but long term effects are more depending on the actual performance of the model, than anything.

Say they launch a model that is hyped to be the best, but when people try it, it's worse than other models. People will quickly forget about it, unless it's particularly good at something.

Alternatively, say they launch a model that doesn't even get a press release, or any benchmark results published ahead of launch, but the model actually rocks at a bunch of use cases. People will start using it regardless of the initial release, and continue to do so as long as it's a best model.
No, my terms are correct.

The bailey is: "they are calling for the genocide of Jews!!!"

Once challenged, you will retreat to the more easily proven: "they are advocating for the return the land to the Palestinian people", as you just did there. I can promise you that no group of people needs to be allowed to occupy a previously settled region with violence in order to continue to exist. I've heard this argument from white nationalists who call for a white nation to similarly preserve their people from perceived threats, as well as heard it numerous times in African settler colonies (Rhodesia, South Africa, etc.) It's a standard ethnostate talking point, and none of us are fooled by it.
> Actually, I would not even do the test most likely and I bet many others neither.

Unpopular observation: Many people say this, but when they actually want or need a job they change their mind quickly.

I've lost count of how many of my peers went from "I will never grind LeetCode!" to working their way through LeetCode challenge lists as soon as a recruiter from a big tech company contacted them.

I talked to one hiring manager at a company who tested their mobile developer applicants by having them make an entire demo app with some non-trivial functionality. I assumed they wouldn't have any applicants, but his current problem was that too many qualified applicants were applying for every position and begging to do the test.
These puzzles need to be handcrafted and a UI built. So they could hire other people to do it or hire the person who already has it done and start monetizing immediately.
From Wikipedia:

> He was stranded twenty miles from the nearest settlement, with only enough food and water to last ten days. To survive, Leray used parts of his broken-down car to build a motorcycle, and twelve days after the accident was able to drive it to a village 20 miles away.

I admire his ingenuity, but I would have probably just walked.
this is basically George Church's MO. I respect him for his early work in sequencing, and he has some crazy/great ideas, but he also oversells everything to the press, which eats it up and spits out articles with the narrative "we're saving the world with this crazy idea"
Show HN: A website/app to help manage your game library
So, me (dev) and my friend (designer) have been building a website/mobile app to help users manage their game library (think MyAnimeList, but games) for a little over a year. We launched with a very basic set of features, and have been slowing expanding since then.

All the code is open source, and most of the things we implemented were direct feedback from users (e.g. being able to import games from Steam/PSN, and the Posts feature).

We don't show ads or have any kind of subscription. This is just a hobby project.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, as honestly the hardest part is getting people to actually try it out.

Link: https://gamenode.app
You can also reach out to me via cassiolamarcksilvafreitas@gmail.com
Holding a humble combo-BSc in ecoomics and statistics, I'm reluctant to agree, but... Yeah, guess I do.
Thanks. Which service do you use please? I'm wanting to try a paid service, just want to know which ones people recommend.
IMHO they should be a good steward and toss the Wireguard guy a mil considering Tailscale is pretty much Wireguard with a GUI on top.
PenLight might count: https://lunarmodules.github.io/Penlight/
See, it was around 7% five years ago in Germany, but has since doubled to 14%. There's no reason solar cannot grow equally exponentially in other countries, too.
Show HN: I also built a word puzzle game
I would suggest using the device's default keyboard on mobile. It feels rather awkward having to use qwerty instead of the azerty I'm used to.
Ask HN: Reddit account banned almost one year ago – unable to create and use new
Silly original ban from an even sillier sub on reddit (/r/soccer - I know, I know! ;-), which, due to my complaint in other related subs about the /r/soccer, "ended" my multi year, multi 10K karma account on that platform. Learned my lesson, so tried to create a new account, and forget about the childish arguments on that sub, and the sub, itself.

Problem? After having created a new account, then posting, after a few days, to some sub, and receiving an instantaneous new "ban" (account "disappearing" from /u/<username>), I thought maybe it was because I used the same email as previous account, and maybe some high-ups on reddit were thinking I was trying to maliciously by-pass some restrictions on creating new account, post a recent ban. So I waited a little, then created a new account, using a new email address, and new browser - just in case (again - absolutely no malicious intent - just trying to get back to a platform where there are some points of interest to me). Same thing: few days later, and first post - ban! I have since attempted to use another 2-3 diff email addresses, increased the time before posting the first time (up to a month), changed browsers and VPN end points, to no avail. Every time I post once, the account is automatically and instantaneously removed (i.e. /u/<username> is no longer avail, when seen from another browser. Tried also through some of the apps (e.g. RIF), to same outcome. Questions:

1. What in the world is triggering this automatic ban, no matter agent ID, source IP, or email address?

2. Is there really no way one could get back on reddit, once banned? Especially looking at the silliness of the source of such, as I mentioned it to the admins ...

Of course I tried to appeal multiple times, from each account newly created and automatically banned, but there has never been a reply from the admins.