skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is no such bar.

We don’t even have a good way to quantify human ability. The idea that we could suddenly develop a technique to quantify human ability because we now have a piece of technology that would benefit from that quantification is absurd.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to measure the ability of an LLM. But it does mean that the techniques used to quantify an LLMs ability are not something that can be applied to humans outside of narrow focus areas.
Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities
The business model of Colossal is to patent and sell genetic editing techniques that they prove out in their deeextinction process, for whatever that is or isn't worth.
> why is she smiling 100% of the time during an emergency?

I always assumed this was one of those American cultural things, akin to how waiters in the US always are super cheery and excited to serve you. (In an obviously artificial way)
Consider tapping into the alumni network - I can help with more guidance on this front. Drop me an email.
> This inability to bring a product to market is in fact an artifact of the for-profit healthcare system.

If that were the only, or principal, problem then surely we would notice that single payer systems do better by demanding production of other therapies.
My joke was that the what it cant do debate changed into what it shouldn't be allowed to.
NIH firings delay cancer immunotherapy trials after promising development
These days, applying through job portals is a losing strategy. People are overwhelmed with perfect-on-paper AI-generated applications.

Email people directly. DM them on Twitter/LinkedIn. Meet people in person.
The Pandemic Is Not the Only Reason U.S. Students Are Losing Ground
> Trump was taking about tariffs, but nobody thought he’d take them this far, this fast.

Stop saying "nobody". People predicted this. The people who are blindsided by this dismissed the people who predicted it as crazy, hyperbolic doom casters. Yet today, when their predictions come to fruition, they don't even exist.

Here's a wild idea: let's start listening to the people who had the foresight to predict this instead of pretending they don't exist because it soothes our own egos for having missed this.
A lot of niche things I want cease to exist in this advertising-free world. If the interest isn't mainstream enough to get a word-of-mouth recommendation then it can't survive. The services we use to find these things, Google, Etsy, Fan sites, none of them exist without advertising. I'm sure you can think of something that was never explicitly advertised to you, that you wanted, that you wouldn't be able to find anymore if this came to pass.
I don't think folks go the startup path because the steps to go from idea to making money are obvious and clear.
You think he, or the GOP would "benefit" from the stock market collapse? That contradicts all available evidence, at least for the short to medium term. I think the midterms are going to be an unprecedented bloodbath. Boomers won't allow their 401k's to decline even temporarily.
They are owned by Axel Springer, whose CEO and part-owner is extreme neo-capitalist Mathias Döpfner, and their news follows his philosophy (or similar ones) as if they are fact, at least at times. The headline depicting privacy regulation as a 'bonfire' is not surprising; I think they were different before the recent corruption of professional journalism by similar people (there is some good journalism remaining!).

Regarding Döpfner, he tried to fire an editor at Business Insider (another Axel Springer publication) because Wall St power player Bill Ackman didn't like their coverage of Ackman's wife. [0] He's taken positions such as, "I am all for climate change"; and ""Free west, fuck the intolerant Muslims and all the other riff-raff." [1]

Politico has published articles saying, "Time to Admit It: Trump Is a Great President. He's Still Trying To Be a Good One.", claiming "The most consequential presidents divided the nation - before “reuniting it on a new level of understanding." (by founding editor and global editor-in-chief John Harris). [2] And another that claimed, as news and not opinion, that disinformation concerns were a "panic" and now outmoded. [3] At least some of their coverage of American politics assumes - again as news fact, not opinion - that anything the left does is ridiculous.

I actually want to know the reality of things, as much as possible, so I will hardly read them anymore.

[0] https://www.semafor.com/article/04/21/2024/axel-springers-tr...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/13/axel-springer-...

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/21/harris-col...

[3] https://www.politico.eu/article/nobody-tricked-vote-donald-t...
Do microLEDs have thicker backplanes? That'd do it.
For sure, but we’re bleeding out on the pavement at the moment, and are going to have to work within the two party system to prevent death in the short term.
Further down on the page they rightly notice that strictly necessary cookies don't require consent. This mirrors the opinion of European Union's Article 29 Working Party back then: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...

gdpr.eu is by the way not an official resource of the European Union but by the Swiss Proton AG. They note down the page that gdpr.eu doesn’t constitute legal advice. Although they are correct in this case and your misunderstanding was in reading for future internet discussions I'd recommend not using private sources.
https://archive.is/4zqxB
DevWeek 2025
Yeah.. and its annoying to read.. I always laught at people who try to make IDs with leading zeros. and then one day BOOM!! overflow.

Its especially common in namings like: THING-01 THING-02.. we will never have more than 100 of them.. and then BOOM.

I always say: leave it at fucking 1 and count up. Thats why we invented Natural Sorting to sort this out...
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James Hornfischer. The amazing courage shown by the US Navy sailors as their tiny 2,000 ton Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts faced a Japanese fleet of Battleships, Cruisers, and Destroyers at The Battle Off Samar. Inspiring and horrifying, the DDs and DEs of the US navy were protecting "Escort Carriers" which were smaller aircraft carriers made from cargo ship hulls. Warning, may inspire you to learn a whole bunch more about world war 2.

And 2 books that sort of go together:

Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway by Walter Lord, and Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully. Read Incredible Victory first, learn about the luck, good and bad, that led to a much-needed victory in the Pacific. Then read Shattered Sword and get a fuller picture of events, especially from the Japanese side. Learn about how hubris and dogma led to the Japanese Navy's defeat. Then learn about how saving face led to history not being accurately told by the witnesses on the Japanese side.

All 3 are great books that are well worth your time.

Others that I've enjoyed:

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (near future post-apocalyptic sci-fi).

The non-fiction Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson (more WW2 non-fiction, nice details about North Africa through Italy, then France to Germany).

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham.

Most Secret War by RV Jones (nerdy, funny history of one scientist's world war 2 experience).

The Discworld City Guard books, starting with Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett. Fantasy fiction satire, hilarious and comforting. Highly, highly recommended!!

Peter F Hamilton sci-fi adventure books: Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained are a duo of great space opera stretching across multiple planets and people. Don't spoil yourself by reading any descriptions of Judas Unchained before you read Pandora's Star. Also by the same author, The Night's Dawn Trilogy: The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God. Fantastic big canvas space opera with lots of threads, great world-building, and amazing situations. Both sets of books are highly recommended escapes from reality.
To me, it sounds like you need professional experience on your resume so that should be your goal. However, professional experience != a full time software engineer role. Can you find something really small that pays from a freelance site? Maybe it's just a python script that takes 4 hours and pays $10 - but with that you are a professional software engineer. Do you anyone who owns a website for a business? Ask them if you can do some really basic work for $1 - because if you do that, you're a professional software engineer.

Once you have some professional experience on your resume, it should get a little easier - it's still going to take some time and grit, but it should work out.
Key passages:

> The U.S. and EU came close to scrapping industrial tariffs a decade ago in their discussions of the TTIP — the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership — that was ultimately scuppered by Trump in his first term.

Ha ha ha. Sigh.

> The EU charges average tariffs of just 1.6 percent on U.S. non-agricultural products, on a trade-weighted basis. But it does charge a higher tariff of 10 percent on imported American cars — although the U.S. is the only G7 country that still pays it because TTIP wasn’t concluded.

Ditto.

> Von der Leyen also did not rule out retaliation: “We are also prepared to respond through countermeasures and defend our interests,” she said.

Yeah.

I've read on other sources that some of the EU officials commenting on this emphasize that it's not some new offer, but was already a point for negotiation before Trump's big event last Tuesday, though it's being framed in headlines as if it's new.
Decide where you WANT to be (like, literally, location).

Plan to move there and get any job.

Don't be ashamed to apply for any and all government assistance you might be able to find.
You're making the claim, so it's your job to prove it, not ask some AI and get your opponent to do the legwork. Moreover I skimmed ECMA-376[1] and it doesn't mention anything about locale-invariant encoding for function names. The only mention was for the CELL function, which could accept multiple values depending on locale.

[1] https://github.com/QtExcel/ecma-376-5th/blob/master/ECMA-376...
miser Catulle
It does if you're actually incorporating (C or S corp). You'll need to at least file both federal and state returns. And in many cases you'll need to pay money even if your business earned $0.

An LLC setup as a passthrough can get away with filing personal returns, but that only works for small freelance operations. Once you've got payroll or investors it's constant paperwork hassle.
Yankees make MLB history with homers on first three pitches
Ah, so that's what happened. I guess they killed 2 birds with one stone with Kevin Hassett falsely saying that in confidence to some overambitious dumb guy.

First, they identify a snitch, second, if they have strong suspicions already, they buy on the dip, sell on the rebound and make a killing.

Stock markets are fully rigged by insider trading. More than ever.
There's a mentality that isn't uniquely American, but definitely permeates the culture, and it explains why people would support something like this against their own interests. It has facets with some combination of:

* Rugged individualism: I stand on my own as an upright citizen made morally righteous by my (or my ancestor's) contributions. I have never needed nor would have accepted welfare (and all the welfare I actually did accept was not actually welfare and was mine by right).

* Moral indignation: there are freeloaders, scammers and grifters everywhere that are unfairly dependent on the welfare state. There's little agreement on who these freeloaders are, other than it's not the wealthy or powerful or people like themselves.

* Religiosity: America was founded as a Christian country and should return to its roots. Often, all the bad things happening in America are God's punishment, the work of the devil, or the natural consequence of wickedness and deviance.

* Anti-intellectualism: Book learning and higher education are just a program of radicalization to promote moral relativism and unjust authority of "elites", and a "culture war". Moreover, all the intellectuals/elites are equally suspect, even those that claim to be helping everyone by advocating for environmentalism, cures and prevention of disease, sound economic policy, social advocacy, etc.

* A desire for positional authority, both above them and for themselves: A sense that people that are rich or powerful are rightfully so. The pastor of your church is the positional moral authority. Your boss is the positional fiscal authority. The police are the criminal authority. The supreme court is the positional judicial authority. The president is the positional executive authority. A father has positional authority over his children. And (unstated), "real Americans" have positional authority over marginalized groups. Any sense that the authority must be earned, maintained or justified is rejected.
Show HN: Timezone Converter in Map Form
I often need to convert times between time zones, so I built this tool to convert between them quickly and efficiently.

1. Add the cities you want to convert between (this is saved in the browser).

2. Drag on the map until the time on the source city is the time you want.

3. Look at the time at the other city.

It's even more helpful to use on a phone since it doesn't require typing to convert between time zones or look up the time in another city (assuming you already added the cities you care about).

If you need to convert a time far in the future, you can input the date and time in the picker next to the city, and it will handle any DST shifts as well.
> s/was/is. As in -- they're going to keep using Signal.

If that does turn out to be the case then I am certain this won't be the last time they inadvertently share information.
If you can get support, staying for a graduate degree is a time honored way of riding things out when you graduate into a recession. And if the stock charts are an indication, industry is bracing for the mother of all recessions.
I'm not sure that's the best advice unless you're looking to build a career in marketing

If you're looking at your long term career trajectory you're probably better off taking a (maybe much) lower paying job in the area you want to end up in. Grow relevant skills and gain experience

Of course this is irrelevant if you just need money to survive today
I use either 2 spaces or tab for indentation for most languages, and I never go beyond 80 (actually, 79). It works well for XTerm, and most utilities that I use.

For git commits, I do not go beyond ~69 characters per line, so it looks neat when I am viewing the commit history.

120 characters may be fine if I only care about coding in VSCodium, for example, so sometimes I might go above the 80 column width when I am programming Go using VSCodium, but I try to not do that, because I still use "less" and whatnot, plus I have an old 17" monitor. I do not like wide monitors, I want to be able to look at the whole screen all at once, with wide monitors I would either have to be too far away, or move my head / neck / eyes too often.

So... my fonts are small, I limit to 80 column width, and I am quite happy with it. :P

To each their own, although I would have issues with Java code that not only requires me to have many files open, I would have to switch back and forth files, and I would have to horizontally scroll a lot.

I hope you realize what I am trying to say, if not, I will elaborate.
It was like this when I, and my friends graduated. This too will pass. Do not let it discourage you and take away everything you've worked so hard to achieve. You will triumph anyway. It's not easy to get into, let alone graduate from a school like MiT. God speed my friend.
It's all those pesky authoritarian democrats working together in lockstep to crush the heroes!

I love seeing takes like this because they require both an extreme sense of being a victim and a self justification of revenge. It's never "we're trying to do the right thing" but instead "someone did something evil to me so now I am justified in doing evil to others".

Somehow the democrats are simultaneously one giant, authoritarian hammer smashing freedom, a disjoint bag of losers, idiots doing whatever George Soros tells them, and weak gays or gay supporters. Doesn't it ever make folks stop and think when the narrative switches between these very different "enemies" depending on whatever actions "the good guys" are trying to justify?
Am I remembering it wrong or did Microsoft use an undocumented call in excel to grant it more memory than was possible for early competitors who didn't also write the OS?
If you're interesting in automated manufacturing, contact me at paul@neofactory.ai

Most hardtech startups dont have the same constraints as big tech in hiring. More than anything we need smart dedicated people to create the future.
Not at all. Tickets are for more than engineers: They’re useful for QA to confirm the feature, documentation writers to ensure they document changes, support people to know that something they’ve been warning customers about is now fixed and so on.

Version control is for the code. Tickets are for features.
> You’re early in your career. This current period of turmoil doesn’t mean that much

Is that true? I seem to remember data showing that the 2008-2010 graduate cohorts never overall caught up to the ones that came immediately before or after them.

Like sure sure OP has an engineering degree from MIT they're more like the ones that did catch up. But I'll bet there are a lot more people reading this who are about to graduate with degrees from perfectly adequate state schools and I'm not sure this unalloyed optimism is exactly correct for them. I don't think it turned out to be for their 2008 predecessors.
'Trump came up with a tariff plan in the 1980s and talked about it way in the past on the Opra show, all because he knew it would help reduce bond costs in 2025' is just more cult level cope about the man.
Are there similar roles in Europe?

Working for Hyderabad from EU would be tricky :-)

Since IB is a large company, id ask if there are similar openings in EU?
The link you shared gives me a white page. Very interested to read it, since I live 10min walk from Foxconn in Shenzhen and absolutely interested in the history.
Then, pray tell, how should your original comment be interpreted?
Collosal would face less pushback if they were upfront about the fact that they aren't a serious attempt at solving any ecological issues but that maybe they could push the tech forward enough that someone else could use it to solve real problems.

There's nothing wrong with building cool proof-of-concept tech as a prestige project that might actually lead to real solutions some day, but Collosal's dire wolf lookalike and mammoth lookalike and whatever else lookalike aren't a serious solution to a problem nor a direct path towards a solution, so they get valid criticism for pretending that they are.
Exactly this. If it's a novel test, it might cost $50,000 a person to do the test, while if it's mainstream and your doing millions, it might cost $50. Doing the test on one person at $50k may prevent you from ever having to reach the scale where you can do it for $50 (but have millions of infections).
Musgrave Pencil Co [0], in Shelbyville, TN is one of the only other ones in the country I'm aware of.

The biggest challenge for a lot of these is that they essentially require full-time machinists to keep the old machinery running, as the manufacturers typically have gone out of business decades ago. Tremont Nail Co [1] is another one I'm aware of, because they manufacture nails with old processes (cutting instead of wire).

Which really tells the story of US manufacturing decline. When all supporting functions of an industry no longer exist, or have migrated to other countries, or have been surpassed by new technology, why should we romanticize and pine for an era that has been passed by? Why shouldn't we have a vision for a new era and double down on the things we are best at?

[0] - https://musgravepencil.com
[1] - https://tremontnail.com
> all of us who did have been in absolute awe of the new capabilities and tools that AI can deliver to augment our skills, crafts, and fill in our gaps.

Am I fundamentally missing something about the experience upper management has with AI versus the experience of a mid/senior level developer in the trenches? I also have access to Cursor and a few other LLMs.

They're handy for bouncing ideas around and for some simple tasks, but I've hardly felt like it was a force multiplier.

When it comes to coding, the amount of times it's hallucinated a function that didn't exist or used a deprecated implementation has felt like a net neutral at best.

> We will add AI usage questions to our performance and peer review questionnaire.

> AI must be part of your GSD Prototype phase.

I can understand asking your devs and other employees to try out AI in their workflows in an attempt to get some productivity gains. Sounds like a responsible CEO trying to milk some value out of his existing headcount. But, it sounds absolutely dystopian to tie performance metrics or changing the project planning process to be AI-centric.

I doubt every project fits that paradigm.
These aren't even concerns limited to genetic engineering. There was a good (if memory serves) Radiolab story ages ago about the conservation efforts on the Galapagos islands. The relevant part is that Lonesome George's genome died out with him, and as a result there aren't any tortoises left that can fill the fauna niche on his island of origin. But since the tortoises on other islands are closely genetically related (even given the separation between them), ecologists started a multi-generational breeding program to attempt to select the key traits of Lonesome George's strain so they can introduce a new population to the island that will do the same job his lineage did in the food web.

... which begs the question: when you're doing Bene-Gesserit-style eugenics on tortoises to get the perfect specimens, what's the nature of the nature you're trying to preserve?

Humans cannot interact with the natural world without changing it, because it is the nature of life (and human life in particular) to change things. The question isn't how we don't make an impact; it's how do we manage that impact responsibly?

(I have no idea if breeding dire-wolf-alikes with genetic modification is responsible or not. Let me know if they get out of the lab and become an invasive species, I think).
They can write a whole article about how bad it is, but they can't even say what the pathology is?

Does this cause colds or Ebola? I know Ebola is viral. I'm talking about symptoms
You are one of the best in history prepared to do your job, with current knowledge etc. and best university in the world, get your colleagues and start a company. You don't need a jerk who barely passed a college to tell you what to do.
> Any vulnerability that can be characterised as "pass contents through parser, full RCE" is a 10/10 vulnerability for me

And I think that's just wildly wrong sorry. I view something exploited in the wild to compromise real systems as a higher impact than something that isn't, and want to see a "score" value that reflects that (IMHO, critical) distinction. Agree to disagree, as it were.
My broader point is that if you want to build a business there's a ton of opportunity if you're not overly picky on what that opportunity looks like. B2B, B2C, mobile, web, node, Python, PHP. None of it really matters.

> You are looking at a business-to-business.. which is where we said there is still opportunity, in large part thanks to those collecting angel money.

You might be mixing up opportunities within the tech industry with using tech to build a business within other industries. Angel money isn't really a "thing" for the latter, and that's where I'm pointing to opportunity.

But by all means keep on pushing B2C if that's your passion