skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the design of notabug
China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S.
Ask HN: How do I jump from Senior PM –> Senior Product Engineer?
I've spent the last 5 years as a PM working closely with engineering teams, architecting solutions and speaking fluent tech - but I'm tired of being the person who draws on the whiteboard without writing the actual code.
My background:

- 5 years as a PM
- CS fundamentals are solid
- Have built various hackathon projects (both frontend and backend)
- Can sketch out system architecture in my sleep (co-invented a software patent)
- Regularly contribute to technical discussions and decision-making
- BUT: Haven't shipped production code professionally

I'm particularly interested in full-stack development and AI integrations. I know the product side cold, I understand what makes for good UX, and I can bridge the business-technical gap. Now I want to be the one building, not just specifying.
The job market isn't great right now, which makes this transition harder. I'm looking for environments that value Respect, Integrity, operate with a Sense of Urgency, and (crucially) have Funding.

For those who've made this transition successfully:

1. What's your recommended path?
2. How did you overcome the "no professional engineering experience" hurdle?
3. Any specific companies known for supporting this kind of transition?
4. Should I target smaller companies where I can wear multiple hats?

Thanks HN!
Let's hope Totally Safe Intelligence doesn't end up having the same relationship with their name as Totally Open AI.
Either you've never used amazon or you are lying in bad faith.
I finally found a real human on this website! The default pose here on HN can be rather eye rollingly bad: "oh, you will FALL BEHIND, everyone is using LLMs and they provide advantages you cannot conceive of, it's an arms race, not a bubble" etc ad nauseum.

I do not expect LLMs to take over even junior developer roles, let alone lead a coding revolution.

Pattern ripoff machines likely have their uses, but the grandiose delusions and the FOMO and the aggressive posturing by the LLM makers and their shrill shill army gets really old.

We are not all entirely stupid ya know
DOGE's tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data
Rather one long function than does one thing well than multiple function that are strongly coupled and difficult to reason about. Programmers who apply dogmas can be harmful.
Yea, all the right things except supporting terror out loud. These people are against your moral compass. It's not a political activity to call for intifada or for terror, which is what he exactly did.
You cared enough to say that. I just can't help it when incompetent people post on subjects that they have no clue about. Ignorance is in abundance on HN, I am not surprised
We don’t need to fix that, do we? Just let it be. You’ll be long dead anyway.
Yeah. I mean, back in 2019 when Raspberry Pi ran into that very same issue [1], it was excusable, but it's six years later and people still have zero idea what the fuck they are doing?

[1] https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/exploring-the-raspberry-pi-4...
Chiplet Tradeoffs and Limitations
You can't migrate the bug reports.
I have thought about this and I'm not sure that Electron really is to blame here.
It makes building an application accessibile, which means that there will be lots of apps built with it, many of which won't be any good.

Just like many native apps will also be horrible in terms of UX.
Good apps are good. And I believe that it's entire possible to build an amazing app with Electron.

Although not everyone might agree, IMO VSCode is a great example of that.
Will opening new bistrots revitalize France's dying countryside?
Austria has unions and Betriebsräte, we even have one in a big american company, so op is correct.
20 BEF would be around 0.5 EUR around the time when the change happened. Nowadays it would probably be around 5 EUR or something.
China accuses US of launching 'advanced' cyberattacks, names alleged NSA agents
Other way round: atmosphere diffracts light away.
What the HellaSwag? On the Validity of Common-Sense Reasoning Benchmarks
On-demand applications. But the it should shut itself down after a while too.

It’s more useful for applications that keep open a connection for a while instead of stateless request/response architecture
...sell ads on it? Maybe for the docs who are willing to prescribe off-label? Maybe for other pharmacies?

I don't know. Maybe it's not a viable business model, but there are certainly weirder things that make money.
Designing healthy and agnostic CI/CD pipelines
Anyway, i enjoyed reading a sane human expressing sane views, for a change.

The ycombinator sponsorship thing seems to put an insanely large thumb on all scales always, around here, so much so that rules sort of allude to one being prohibited from biting any hands that may be feeding anyone up high...

I used to enjoy HN before it became nonstop LLM "news"

Who's hiring seems to only involve LLM related enterprises, which seems rather short-sighted, IMO
Disagree. It's really not complicated at all to me. Not sure why people make a big fuss over this. I don't want an AI automating which AI it chooses for me. I already know through lots of testing intuitively which one I want.

If they abstract all this away into one interface I won't know which model I'm getting. I prefer reliability.
> Nobody is evil, they just have different interests and viewpoints.

If you're arguing a fairy-tale definition of "evil" as an inherent property were people do evil for evil's sake, or simply can't help it, sure - almost nobody is "evil", if having actual, realistic motivations automatically disqualifies "evil".

I think evil can still be a useful, moral concept, if you give up the need for it to be absolute and objective, while accepting the ambiguity that comes with it. Still, it's likely possible for a lot of people to agree what constitutes evil, especially when seeing examples.

I would certainly like to keep considering things, actions and sometimes even people, to be "evil", _especially_ after considering their motivations, views and justifications.
I’m rather surprised anyone would want a battery operated lamp at their bedside anyways, unless it was a backup battery for when the power goes out. There’s no battery indicator to know when it is low so you would just have to guess or pay attention when it looks like it needs to be charged. Most people would probably just plug it in and leave it plugged in all the time.
Whats the problem.. just get your pal Soros to give you the money instead..
With $36T debt, Federal Government cannot continue splashing out money like there is no tomorrow
One of the reasons of the downfall of Florence was that they didn't enter the low quality textile market and remained on the high end stuff.
its 1 supernova per century per galaxy. there are many galaxies: more than 10 stars go supernova every second across the universe. tens of thousands have gone supernova since the article was posted to HN. tiny percentages in a large sample are huge numbers, you might even say 'astronomical'.
About 20 years ago, I briefly considered what it would take to use heliostats focussed on a heat exchanger to the same effect.

The mistake I made then was thinking fuel was expensive, so I assumed similar performance to existing rockets as if I was using it to superheat cheap water to the combustion temperature of hydrogen-oxygen — the problem with this being that it's pumping the equivalent of the entire electrical power demand of the United Kingdom into an engine the size of a truck for 6 minutes without it exploding.

(Similarly, it's possible to push against Earth's magnetic field but if you use copper the resistive losses will vaporise you launch vehicle. And you can make a much stronger artificial field on the ground, but the way magnetic fields reduce with distance means the current loop on the ground has to be significantly larger than CERN's LHC).
be quiet are entering the keyboard/mouse market, and we've managed to get an early look at them. They look and sound fantastic!
> We don’t need to fix that, do we? Just let it be. You’ll be long dead anyway.

Spotted the republican
That use case seems pretty self defeating when a good news source will usually try to at least validate first-party materials which an llm cannot do.
If so, the loss of fidelity versus 4.5 is really noticeable and a loss for numerous applications. (Finding a vegan restaurant in a random city neighborhood, for example.)
You’re counting completely the wrong thing. Shallow versus deep is about the items inside, but we care about the costs of creating the collection itself. As far as structured clones are concerned, none of the operations we’re talking about are deep. At best, it’s just the wrong word to use. (Example: if you were going to call it anything, you’d call .map(x => x) shallow.)

Array:

• Array.prototype.slice may be expensive (it creates a collection, but it may be able to be done in such a way that you can’t tell).

• Array.prototype.filter is expensive (it creates a collection).

• Array.prototype.map is expensive (it creates a collection).

So you have two or three expensive operations, going through as much as the entire list (depends on how much you trim out with slice and filter) two or three times, creating an intermediate list at each step.

Iterator:

• Array.prototype.values is cheap, creating a lightweight iterator object.

• Iterator.prototype.drop is cheap, creating a lightweight iterator helper object.

• Iterator.prototype.take is cheap, creating a lightweight iterator helper object.

• Iterator.prototype.filter is cheap, creating a lightweight iterator helper object.

• Iterator.prototype.map is cheap, creating a lightweight iterator helper object.

• Iterator.prototype.toArray is the thing that actually drives everything. Now you drive the iterator chain through, going through the list only once, applying each filter or transformation as you go, and only doing one expensive allocation of a new array.

In the end, in terms of time complexity, both are O(n), but the array version has a much higher coefficient on that n. For small inputs, array may be faster. For large values, iterators will be faster.
I have also come to this conclusion. Consciousness might be an evolutionary dead end.
> The ESP32 has its own charging circuit.

What?

_reads on_

Turns out, he uses a specific ESP32 breakout board (AFAIK a Lolin one) that includes a charging circuit for a 1S battery. It's a really nice board, but to say that ESP32 includes a charging circuit is wrong, for anyone else curious.
The thing that is standing in their way is probably that nobody is willing to pay for this what it costs to run.
So can any human-based sources. A healthy learning experience with AI takes discipline, just as it does with humans.
Adding SVG Support to My Haskell CAD Library
I wonder if a lawsuit could force them to recall all their lamps and fix the USB port. Then this won't happen again.

At least here in Europe this would actually need to be a USB port which can be charged with any charger and cable.
Run a periodic script that slurps bug data via the API and updates a file in the repo with this information. If GitHub goes away you at least have a local copy of the raw data no more than a day old or so.

GitHub json data is horrible but not intractable to work with.
Ubuntu 16.04 or something.
MCP Run Python
you can do high end audio dsp on dspic lol.

lookup sigmastudio dsp, dsp is insanely cheap todo, there is absolutely no need for fpga, what that guy was doing was either nonsense or it was in 1995. which are both irrelevant points, or rather you provided examples that show fpga are irrelevant, no growth market.

(how many audio devices were using TMS320 dsps even before and after ipod was a thing...)
Fabrice Bellard is a real coding monster!
Sony Handycam froze. But recovered when I realized there is no hurry and I stayed some days in a warm hotel in New Jersey.
Astronomers will find out that naming is hard once they need to name 119741st supernova.
Once they can do this we are probably at AGI
Four weeks of voice computing – here's what I learnt
It’s hard to overstate the pervasiveness of WhatsApp in some some countries. Where I’m from work, service hiring, costumer service, etc are all conducted through (and specially for small businesses only though) WhatsApp.
I did and I agree with most of it.

It was also irrelevant to my point, which was exclusively about the dangers of very low quality batteries.
I'm guessing it still infringes on copyright simply because that's clearly Laura Croft and probably other characters that are similar, but not legally distinct, from the original game?
(note: I am going to be imprecise here by describing the volume of the unit hypersphere, when such a concept does not exist, as the hypersphere only describes the surface of such a construct. It is more correct to call it the volume of the n-ball, or the volume enclosed by the unit hypersphere, but I'm not going to use that terminology throughout, in the interest of expediency.)

> What is the ratio B/A is 1/100 and you'd say that the methodology is very inefficient here, and I tell you that actually we're estimating the ratio A/B. Does it become very efficient? Surely it can't change as the two ratios arent independent.

That's exactly it, though. Rejection sampling is not primarily used to estimate ratios, but rather to draw points from a distribution by sampling a broader distribution and then rejecting points that don't satisfy some criteria. If you're attempting to sample the unit hypersphere by picking N points between 0 and 1, and rejecting any sets where sum(x_i^2) > 1, then you're going to be throwing away most of your data points in the process.

Going back to the topic of volume ratio estimation, though: both of you are underestimating quite how quickly the volume drops off. The unit hypersphere's volume decreases super-exponentially (there's a factorial in the denominator!), so if you're dealing with a mere 50 dimensions, you're looking at a ratio of 10^-13 [0]. In that regime, adding an extra dimension shrinks that volume by a factor of about 3; by the time you get to 100, that factor increases to 4.

If you're still only sampling a million points, chances are very good that you're going to decide that the ratio is 0. In order to accurately estimate the ratio, you need progressively more and more samples just to compensate for a slight increase in dimension.

I'd expect it to be much more efficient to use the change-of-coordinates approach the article also mentions, although I have personally never thought about a coordinate system well-suited to the 50-dimensional hypersphere. Probably 49 angles and a radius that's basically almost always 1, and a weird Jacobian that I don't want to compute by hand?

Also, as I mentioned, using rejection sampling to estimate the value of pi is a cute exercise but quite useless in practice compared to any of the more direct methods. If you sample a million points in the unit square, you'll end up with 3.142 +/- 0.0016. Meanwhile, if you use the fourth continued fraction for pi (355/113), you already have 3.141592(9)... for far less computation.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=volume+of+unit+49-ball
Trump doesn't understand most things he does, hence why his advisors have so much power over outcomes, and policies shift as different advisors fall in and out of favor.
LSD analogue with potential for treating schizophrenia developed
Researchers have developed a new, neuroplasticity-promoting drug closely related to LSD that harnesses the psychedelic's therapeutic power with reduced hallucinogenic potential.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416106122
Deepseek is not a commercial AI company. They are the hobby of a hedge fund, something they do on the side for fun and glory.
I don't think it's confusing. It's classic "my way or the highway" stance. "Free speech for everyone! (except for things I don't like...)".
exploded, he-he.
Yes, peace happens after conquest. Colonization never occurred. And if you want to know what happened to the Jews after Arabs conquered, listen to this historian speak: https://youtu.be/9bBlv0hfj5c?si=JVi7tMYTPwBI97gT
https://archive.md/ZWmlW
The result of this process is that the air purifier boosts when the air quality inside drops.

I feel like that is something that doesn’t or at least shouldn’t require a string of IoT devices, apps, wireless communication and hubs. Why not leave all of that out and just attach an air quality sensor to the air purifier and a small LCD to adjust the settings?

The light in my hallway turns on automatically when I walk past. No cloud, no HomeAssist, no WiFi, no Zigbee, no apps, no batteries to change. Just a motion sensor hardwired to the light fixture. Hasn’t failed me once in the past ten years. Works great even if the network goes down.
If a president flaps his arms on one side of the planet does this cause a hurricane of chaos on the other side of the world? And everywhere else.
On top of that, it looks like it would be relatively easy to spoof the cloud server and make the device believe that there is a firmware update available to then feed it esphome, a bit like the switchbota hack.
https://archive.md/edeVu
I've come across some other comments on Chinese forums. Some importers buy products for 10 RMB from China and then sell them in the U.S. for 10 USD. Later, they use tariffs as an excuse to raise prices to 15-20 USD. They couldn't care less whether you impose 100% or even 200% tariffs – they'd still profit unless the tariffs reach 1000%.

Also, check out this link[0] some people actually don't have many alternatives either.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCS-LS4LUXk
https://archive.md/FPHGt
They were bringing Cheese and Bordeaux: "French Air Force A400M deployed to Greenland" - https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/armee-de-lair-a400m-in-...
https://archive.md/sxAXA
On a side note, Life of Brian used to be listed on the Apple iTunes Store as rated “PG” - it’s actually “R”. Great fun when I let my 11 and 13 year old boys watch it. Luckily their mother wasn’t home. Appears Apple eventually rectified that issue, but I tried to report it and man does Apple make it difficult.
Lots of technical discussions - but the real answer is that bittorrent/P2P was displaced by Netflix for all but a small number of hard-core users. That, combined with legal threats, and that p2p required volume/scale to work well, meant that the critical mass died. It was a sad day that we, the users of the internet, en-mass exchanged bittorrent for streaming companies.
Scaling Verilator Simulations with Kubernetes and Julia [pdf]
Learn how to orchestrate Verilator-based hardware simulations at scale using Kubernetes and automate verification with Julia for efficient, reproducible testing.
OK, thanks for the clarification.

I have nothing against crypto in principle, but I really don't want Iroh to be associated with crypto scams.

Iroh is just a library for p2p connections. You can use it for crypto, but I would say that the majority of our users are non-crypto(currency).

We will try to make the wasm version easier to use, but if nostr works well for you, go for it! Not the right place if you want to avoid crypto bros though :-)
Maybe a reference to the OpenAI models loving to output em-dashes?
If they were concerned with spending, they’d just cut the spending.

They’re making the spending conditional on Harvard following their ideological instructions.
If you’re a consumer, I’m not sure why you’re not singing praises of this arrangement. If someone in China can sell me exactly the same stuff for 1/4 the price you’re charging, shipping included, then why do you even exist?
Where did he do this? Seems like a pretty serious allegation to make without a solid source.
Though, y'know, also consistent with Stalinist Russia.

Generally, those sorts of approval ratings for an executive leader (you do see them sometimes for non-executive heads of state, though in that case they can be seen as less alarming) are a serious red flag; they're generally a dictatorship signal. No-one is _that_ popular.
JEP 506: Scoped Values final for Java 25
Whisky – Maintenance Notice
Deepseek is everything OpenAI claims to be.
I think that all countries spy on one another, allies or not. That is pretty much a given.

The difference as I see it is that the EU does not see the US as a regular ally doing its intelligence gathering thing. It now sees the US as a hostile foreign state, and some more measures to protect itself have to be taken.
I'd agree with you that the current admin is anti-intellectual, but this speech is not a smoking gun.

For those who need spoonfed, here is the full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Cifnhw

It's JD Vance's keynote speech at the 2021 National Conservatism conference. The speech, which I've just skimread, is mostly well-worn US conservative complaints about US higher education. He also talks about red-pilling because he's down with the kids, and he adds Jesus sprinkles in case you forgot he's Christian.

The speech is dull but it's bookended with two spicy statements, both of which you mostly quoted. The latter statement is not his words but a quote from Nixon.

Opening statement: «So much of what we want to accomplish, so much of what we want to do in this movement in this country, I think are fundamentally dependent on going through a set of very hostile institutions - specifically the universities which control the knowledge in our society, which control what we call truth and what we call falsity, that provides research that gives credibility to some of the most ridiculous ideas that exist in our country and so I'm excited to close this conference with this particular set of remarks, because I think if any of us want to do the things that we want to do for our country, and for the people who live in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.»

Closing statement: «I really want to end this on an inspirational note [...] and the person whose quote I ultimately had to land on was the great prophet and statesman Richard Milhous Nixon [...] there is a season for everything in this country and I think in this movement of National Conservatism, what we need more than inspiration is we need wisdom, and there is a wisdom in what Richard Nixon said approximately 40-50 years ago. He said, and I quote: "the professors are the enemy".»

EDIT: And for the context of the Nixon quote, it comes from a private conversation Nixon had with Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office on December 14, 1972, recordings of which were released in 2008: «Henry remember... we're gonna be around and outlive our enemies. And also, never forget, the press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.». It's worth noting that Nixon was already keeping an "enemies list": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List
But it’s so much weaker than 4.5 in broader tasks… maybe more optimized against benchmarks but it’s just no replacement for a huge model.
It's a bit more complex.

Neonazis tend to like the idea of Israel while hating the occupants. They hate sending aide there but love it if Jews move there.

The notion of a Jewish state was an OG Nazi idea (see Madagascar plan). They wanted a place to send their unwanted citizens.

On top of that, core to most fundamentalist Christian belief is that utopia will happen after a strong Israel gets involved in massive wars. That value is why you may see neonazis cheering on Israel as an aggressor because they believe it'll lead to utopia.

This is why mixing support for Israel with whether or not someone is antisemitic is silly. Israel isn't the Jews and Jews aren't Israel.
hats off to Harvard,
did they generate the response with chatgdp? so many em dashes lmfao