skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I graduated in this time period and that makes sense. I definitely didn't start doing what I wanted until some time later. I guess in a sense that makes my career overall a few years behind resume wise but at this point, being in the industry 15 years instead of 17 probably isn't going to move the needle too much in terms of salary but who knows. Either way, at this point in time, I don't feel like I've missed out really.

Also, I graduated from a pretty mediocre state school. I'm by no means starving.
A LED TV basically lasts forever. An OLED TV will last maybe 10 years max. Often less in practice.
I've seen far too many IVs statically declared as "<Product>IV" in my lifetime.

Bonus marks for when the key was also "<Product>Key".
>Assuming Europe, collectively, can even change the balance of power on the ground is also a stretch.

They don't have a meaningful military but they have very big mouths. I don't think they are so stupid to enter a war they will surely lose.
Dynamic Arrays in Arenas
that, or you have some broken thing connected that draws way to high idle current.
> I've worked at a couple of BigTechs, where there were between 5-20x more engineers than actual work. The trade-offs are... strange in that world.

Never seen that in my life, and I've worked at small, medium, and huge companies. Sounds wild. So they actually have zero bugs in their bug tracker, and no feature on deck waiting to be built? What do they do all day?

Typical case I've seen at many companies is: Team has N engineers, with a rough capacity to fix N x 2 bugs per week. Bugs come in at a rate of N x 3, and the bug backlog is N x 80 and constantly growing until the team does periodic "bankruptcy" ritual where they mass-close N x 50 bugs that they admit they'll never get to fixing. Repeat forever.
Oh really? We banned billboards here in Maine in 1978ish, and you know what we don't have? Insane attempts to get around the law! There's an occasional person hired by a shady political organization to drive a couple trucks with signs on them around, but that's already not allowed by the law, it's just poorly enforced, and it's very rare.

Know what we have instead?

Peace.
It appears there is a bug with it on Firefox. The game loads with a word and what looks like five possible answers, but after a few seconds the screen goes blank.
School-age child dies in Texas measles outbreak
Wouldn't these restrictions prevent a global pandemic and thus refute the headline?
Ask HN: Can you use a quantum RNG to create all possible programs?
Woke up this morning with a strange thought that I'm hoping the geniuses here at HN can poke some holes in.

let's say that I take a quantum random number generator and use it to create a random-length sequence of random bits.

it'll probably be a meaningless random sequence, but by pure dumb luck you might just end up with something that could be compiled and run as a program.

if you looked across all the universes in the multiverse, would it be true that all possible programs now exist (within their universes)?

in one universe, i'd get a playable version of tetris.
in some other universe, i'd have a program for efficiently cracking passwords.
and if AGI were possible, in some universe i'd end up creating AGI.
I think you're thinking of Timothy McVeigh.
Sounds like you've got it figured out then. Best of luck!
For being an article about "open source" and the implications on geo-politics, it seems like a not sufficiently researched article. Something obvious that sticks out:

> Meta & Llama: In 2023, Meta was behind OpenAI and Google in AI. By releasing Llama openly, Meta gained community support and adoption, striking at rivals’ closed approaches.

Meta might call Llama "open source" in their marketing material, but all their legal documents call Llama "proprietary" and anyone taking a closer look at their license/use policy would immediately be able to point out how Llama isn't open source.

Since the article gets something really basic wrong, how could we trust the rest of the article?
"Handles are the better pointers": An Odin gamedev follow-up
Federated Data Access for MCP (Model Context Protocol)
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> I understand why everyone is one Twitter

False premise, most people are not on Twitter.
Outside of Japan and the US, comparatively few people use Twitter.
> Clarification: doesn't align on the lack of pocket depth or on the ease of firing?

Pocket depth. If the government actually had infinite money there wouldn't be so much gnashing of teeth about the budget. I don't see any assertion about the difficulty of firing so I can't respond to that.

> My understanding for most of the bureaucracy was that there are some very solid policy guardrails set up around termination of bureaucrats; once you're in and have some time under your belt, only gross malfeasance gets you removed.

Your understanding is commonly repeated but I'm beginning to question how true it is. "Bureaucrats" is a pejorative used to describe government workers and imply they don't do valuable work but I don't find it persuasive. I have no idea how easy or hard it is to fire someone in government or the amount of oversight involved in identifying abuse and incompetence.
There ARE no jokes aloud on hn.

Look I’m no stranger to love. you know the rules and so do I… you can’t find this conversation with any other guy.

But since the parent was making a meta commentary on this conversation I’d like to introduce everyone here as Kettle to a friend of mine known as #000000
That waveshaper version is going to alias pretty badly, isn't it? Did the original Gameboy sounds have that aliasing?
From TFA:
“Since cremations were common in the European parts of the Roman Empire around 100 AD [CE], inhumations are an absolute exception. Finds of Roman skeletons from this period are therefore extremely rare,” said Kristina Adler-Wölfl, head of the Vienna City Archaeology Department.
I think it was not useful if it was not understandable. Thanks again for the feedback :).
Trade wars lead to shooting wars and depressions (2018)
2002 felt similar, although it was never so bad that even MIT grads had trouble finding jobs, just those of us from low tier schools.

The classmates who took non-tech jobs after graduating in 2002 never came back to the industry. They generally did alright, but taking a job outside the industry makes it really difficult to get back in. Employers expect to hire people with no experience straight out of school.

That MEng sounds like the best option to me. That was definitely the best option for my 2002 classmates.
Payroll is relatively simple for a basic LLC. You can use a service like Rippling or a local CPA to do it for you. Usually costs around $40 per month per employee.

S Corp filings are drop dead simple. The tax return may take a CPA’s help if your structure is complicated or you want to get the absolute best tax breaks possible.

Yes it could be simpler - jurisdictions like Estonia figured this out.
So is MCP the new RPA (Robotics Process Automation)? Like generic yahoo pipes?
Good to know. Thanks :)
I cant even get the thing to work
A rational actor has never, does not now, and will never exist.

Despite what social media stoics say.
Part of it was Mike Judge (Office Space, among others). Part was that they did really good research. They nailed lots of little details about VC, technology, tech businesses, the locale, and industry.
It's parroting human reinforcement.
Hypocaust
The wiki article implies the Professor was fine with it, so stolen is maybe not correct.

" Harvard officials were not pleased that Gates and Allen (who was not a student) had used the PDP-10 to develop a commercial product, but determined that the computer itself, which technically belonged to the military, was not covered by any Harvard policy; the PDP-10 was controlled by Professor Thomas Cheatham, who felt that students could use the machine for personal use. Harvard placed restrictions on the computer's use, and Gates and Allen had to use a commercial time share computer in Boston to finalize the software."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Amazed it didn't happen earlier. For a long time it's been seen that an economical way to store energy is to store compressed air in a cavern and feed it into a gas-fired turbine in lieu of turbocharging: see https://urbanao.com/post/compressed-air-energy-storage-caes-...
He mentioned that in his post. He's a bit too burned out and doesn't have a good idea for a thesis at this time.
>Cookie banners aren't a requirement unless you wish to store cookies that aren't strictly necessary (statistics, marketing, etc)[0]. Cookies that are essential for the user to browse the site (login tokens) don't require consent.

So if I use telemetry to catch some dirty frontend blob throwing a hissy fit of an exception and that telemetry is tracking sessions rather than individual events (hello ms app insights) -- is that functional or, statistics or etc?
Same seems to go for https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/
No. I remain unsure about what you were trying to add. You must have had some kind of astute observation that warranted your time to formulate a response – more than once. But, I'm afraid it went over my head. Perhaps you can frame it in another light?
Trump's tariffs could TRIPLE the price of an iPhone
I think most people that enter `1/2` in a spreadsheet do indeed mean `January 2nd` and not `0.5`. In the wider world of people using spreadsheets, dates are certainly more common than fractions.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43611926
Which might tell a story in itself. This might have been a small detachment that was ambushed and utterly wiped out, leaving nobody alive on the Roman side to perform the traditional funeral rites. Instead the attackers were left to bury the bodies in their own tradition.
It's more akin to infinite loop since cells divide without appropriate boundaries. In cell division there's defined stages, normal cells should go into resting stage G0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G0_phase if they don't you have a tumour and when more checks and balances go awry that might lead to cancer
Sure, this sounds like a modernized version of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
> AFAIK the 1st Amendment is about whether the government can prevent you from speaking, not there are 0 consequences to all speech.

1A prevents the government from punishing or compelling speech. it's not absolute - slander and death threats aren't protected, for example - but it's pretty broad. you can publish classified documents, for example. the leaker can be punished, but not the journalist.

1A doesn't just protect your right to speak while somehow not protecting you from arrest for your speech. punishment is how all laws are enforced.
actually, you don't need to actively reject, it's the operator which has to obtain active informed consent, so default option is "no consent given"
Yeah, I read that comment wrong. I didn't mean to come off like that. Sorry.
In this case the result/output is plain text. Since it's not code it may be harder to imagine an attack vector. As an attacker, here would be some of my capabilities/possibilities:

- I could change the meaning of the output and the output entirely.
- If I can control one part of a larger set of data that is analyzed , I could influence the whole output.
- I could try to make the process take forever in order to waste resources.

I'd say the first scenario is most interesting, especially if I could then potentially also influence how an LLM trained on the output behaves and do even more damage using this down the line.

Let's say I'm a disgruntled website author. I want my users to see correct information on my website but don't want any LLM to be trained on it. In this case I could
probably successfully use prompt injection to "poison" the model.
I think this is very much a cultural issue rather than a technical one. Just look at array bounds checking: widespread in the mainframe era even in systems languages, relegated to high-level languages for a very long time on the basis of unacceptable perf hit in low-level code, but more recently seeing more acceptance in new systems languages (e.g. Rust).

Similarly in this case, it's not like we don't have languages that do checked arithmetic throughout by default. VB.NET, for example, does exactly that. Higher-level languages have other strategies to deal with the problem; e.g. unbounded integer types as in Python, which simply never overflow. And, like you say, this sort of thing is considered unacceptable for low-level code on perf grounds, but, given the history with nulls and OOB checking, I think there is a lesson here.
> lf, it almost feels like watching the stars align perfectly for China,

That will never happen while China remains a communist nation.
> Could there be a reason that the Trump administration is continuing to persevere on something that is seen across the board as an objectively bad idea?

From cofefe to tarrifs there's always someone out there insisting that whatever inexplicable move Trump is making at this moment is actually 4D chess, and ready to explain how this is some convoluted move we just don't understand. In reality I think the answer is no. I've seen nothing to convince me over the years that Trump is operating at this level, and it's telling that it's never Trump whose explaining how these moves are supposed to lead to wonderful outcomes through convoluted paths, but instead some rando on the Internet.
I too have worked at a back company and I can’t recall any of the customers caring or even knowing about the metadata.

We would only care if the software our customers were running did. Big enterprise software suits were defined to run in hostile environments, in such they mostly rely on their data formats and don’t care about attributes from the filesystem other than so they have access.
Hey, I'm beta testing something that helps you find anything you've seen online using whatever you remember about it. Would love to add you to the beta, here's a quick preview of how it works: https://www.loom.com/share/50a7561764db42de83c11921fe00c20b?...
The difference is that in the USA people are willing to add languages just based on the languages the people there already speak.

Edit to add: In Germany this might mean you could interact with the government if not in english, then also arabic, turkish or vietnamese.
Pair Programming for Debugging: Why AI IDEs Can't Replace Humans
>But excel just incorrectly determines what you meant

How would you, if you were programming excel, determine whether the 5-digit number entered with a leading 0 is meant to be a zip code or not?
How can US border police work in a foreign country where they don't have a jurisdiction?
I did something similar for a "game engine" let the NPCs remember things from other NPCs' and the PC's interaction with them. It wasn't perfect, but the player could negotiate a cheaper price on a dagger for instance if they promised to owe the NPC a larger payout next time they returned to the shop. And it worked... most of the time, the shop owner remembered the debt and inquired about it on the next interaction - but not always, which I guess is kind of "human".
Why use this over Puppeteer or Playwright extensions?
How dare you guarantee that I'd consider you a failure? You don't know me, don't put that on me. In fact I am pretty sure I wouldn't consider you a failure. You're saying a lot of negative things about yourself and I don't know you or your situation but I hope you don't give up.
Given someone always posts these it's too bad every article can't just be set up with that kind of link. If there's a legal reason it can't be done I'd not be surprised though.
MIT students almost definitely don't have student loans. The degree is free to cheap.
Which is ironic gender coding, because for the US job market of 2025, exported services are almost completely tech, and tech is primarily male.
The difference is that C# has well-defined behavior in this case - a non-nullable notification is really "not-nullable-ish", and there are cases even in the language itself where code without any casts in it will observe null values of such types. It's just a type system hole they allow for convenience and back-compat.

OTOH with Rust you'd have to violate its safety guarantees, which if I understand correctly triggers UB.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC

"Tiny BASIC was designed by Dennis Allison and the People's Computer Company (PCC) in response to the open letter published by Bill Gates complaining about users pirating Altair BASIC, which sold for $150. Tiny BASIC was intended to be a completely free version of BASIC that would run on the same early microcomputers."
I don't think it was that bad. I graduated 12/2008 in aerospace engineering from a big state school. Not MIT. We all had at least 1 offer from big companies, even the middling students. I had 2 offers, and probably could have swung a third. It felt like the recession mostly affected the housing market and older career folks, but for us new grads things were mostly normal. This feels like a permanent shift due to AI in part, and interest rates going back up since pandemic.
How Trump Can Rebuild America: Conservative Case for Reindustrialization
They probably mostly don't need to be.

Most SaaS companies are not doing anything particularly innovative or novel. Most of them provide value via putting in the work to glue together several other APIs, automating something that previously was harder to script/automate, or simply applying an idea that another company pioneered to another market segment: "It's like Theranos but for barbers!"

These use cases are generally so typical of the technology being used, that LLMs can do a lot of work to script things and it's usually pretty easy to QC.
I had the same frustration with finding things I knew i had seen before, Started building something at usedory.com to help and we're beta testing right now, would love to add you: https://www.loom.com/share/50a7561764db42de83c11921fe00c20b?...
Be neat if they opened a theme park on a remote island filled with de-extinct creatures.
Amazing! Thank you for pointing out that he has such a beautiful website with his work on it
I broadly agree that free trade increases the pie and is beneficial. I would still like to point out that I can think of two examples where the pie might actually decrease even while conceding in the vast majority of cases the pie does increase and that free trade is largely a good thing.

(1) The comparative advantage of a country is that they do not have strict environmental standards and becomes the low cost leader in a "dirty" industry.

(2) An individual in the rich country loses their job to an individual in the poor country who produces exactly the same level of output at lower cost and the individual in the rich country ends up having to subside on government benefits

For both of these examples, shareholders profit financially from the outsourcing (and so I would argue it is likely happen) even as the world in example 1 or the rich country in example 2 loses out.
Currently in a seed funded by a very simple cap table, pre-series whatever SaaS company. This post resonated with me as we will have to raise money later this year and I'm dreading having to take institutional capital. There is another way.
Are we just talking past each other here? Are you saying that it's hard to bootstrap a pure B2C business using only B2C revenue sources? Because that's not what I'd do; I'd consult to other businesses. That's what 37signals did.
> no one has the right to compel anyone to get injected with anything. Full stop.

OTOH, this refusal puts others at risk, people who, for actual medical reasons (such as being too young) can’t be vaccinated. Can someone deliberately choose to be a danger to others and not be considered reckless?
If I have to seek it out, say a product catalog or a website, it really isn't marketing or advertising.

The "problem" is that everything is vying for our attention because the internet made it vastly cheaper for any random joe blow to force a set of pixels in front of our faces.

That's the distinction. If I can't ignore it, then it shouldn't be legal. Companies should have no right to my attention.
Shopify CEO tells teams to consider using AI before growing headcount
The given examples seem disconnected from the duty cycle radios on my browser. I mean changing them changes the sound, but it's as if the one I selected is not the one playing.

Anyway, what could have been the purpose for the gameboy hardware to provide both 25% and 75% duty cycle? In audio, these sound identical to a human, no? They are the same waveform with inverted polarity. They have the same overtone content.
It didn't happen because like everything else that the peanut gallery deems "obvious" the actual pros and cons of implementing it didn't pencil out until recently.

This was tried in the 1950s and 1960s. IDK why it didn't make the cut then. Probably cumulative weight of tanks. It takes A LOT of air to run an engine.
Yup, that's the problem I run into. You give it some lore to draw on or describe a character or give them some knowledge, and it'll just blurt it out when it finds a place for it. It takes a lot of prompting to get it to stop, and I haven't found a consistent method that works across models (or even across sessions).
This is cool. I'm curious why you chose to use an extension, rather than getting the user to run Chrome with remote debugging turned on?
(I work at S2.)

> what are some of the notable issues that were find using the DST approach

We've discovered a few distributed deadlocks. And in general it's been incredibly helpful in exercising any parts of the system that involve caches or eventual consistency, as these can be really hard to reason about otherwise.

> if a LLM system would be able to help analyze the TRACE logs

Neat idea! For us, the logs are typically being dug into only if there is a failure condition for the test as a whole. Often times we'll inject additional logging or state monitoring to better understand what led to the failure (which is easy enough to do given the reproducibility of the failure in the sim). Trace logs are also being analyzed in the context of the "meta-test", but that's just looking for identical outputs. (More about that here: https://github.com/tokio-rs/turmoil/issues/19#issuecomment-2... )
Even your gilded claim is breaking down these days it seems.

I started in state schools and leveraged that into one of the world's best (half the MIT professors had graduated from my alma mater when I was deciding where to go) for my MSc.

As [likely] one of the people you reference, I am a counter example to your guarantee. No one should fail who contributes in good faith. Live life well, be responsible, have fun, spread joy, and no matter what happens in your career you'll have succeeded.
From the implementation and enforcement, it seems like GDPR was an attempt to make tracking visitors so expensive and difficult that it would eliminate targeted marketing, without negatively impacting consumer choices. The 'do not track' header would not achieve this goal.
The article talks about the fact that those model are "available to anyone", even Llama is Open Source from that point of view: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models Where Llama is not Open Source is in total respect of certain ethical principles: https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-license-is-still-not...

So, it’snot 100% Open Source inside the context of the article it’s acceptable. Moreover, even DeepSeek is not OpenSource, it’s "OpenWeight"
This is pretty smart. Why carry the compressor and intercooler with you? Save the mass and complexity, as well as shifting the energy required to compress the air to a device off the car.
British AI Voices That Sound Incredibly Real