skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is complicated, because engineering titles are not equivalent across companies. A senior engineer at Company X does not equal senior engineer at Company Y. So these companies have detailed ways you can map your titles to theirs.

Exactly why we created https://levels.fyi. While the site is mainly intended for job seekers, we've seen a lot of engineering managers use it as a tool to benchmark their offers and conduct compensation reviews.

A lot of startups nowadays tend to offer multiple options when sending candidates offers. They'll create a slider that allows you to adjust base salary against equity proportional to a target total compensation value with a minimum base requirement (I know even large companies like TikTok do this). You can go base heavy, equity heavy or somewhere in between. It gives candidates the flexibility to choose what to optimize for which is pretty nice.
Some infants, probably. On a widespread general basis, probably not (yet?).

Switching between different formulas for normal/healthy babies can be done (if a preferred brand is out of stock but something else is available), but it's not trivial.

Switching to a different formula for a baby with special dietary needs, special allergies, etc., can range from "difficult" to "impossible." For those parents, this is an acute crisis, and "going hungry" doesn't begin to describe the potential impact; stunted development in the newborn phase, has long-term knock-on effects. Newborns are very different from adults (or even just, older children); adults can skip a few days worth of meals or ration their calorie intake for weeks, without much adverse long-term impact... newborns cannot do this.

A semi-related source about what kinds of scenarios parents are facing: https://www.nytimes.com/article/formula-shortage-help.html
OP here. That's great to hear. Yeah it's kind of interesting when people complain "TikTok only has teen girls dancing" or some similar niche, without them realizing they are basically revealing what they tend to watch. Although one flaw I think I'm hearing, with other social networks as well, is people see shock-content and cannot look away, and then they get more of that. Which seems like a flaw. Also, I find it's a skill game to very quickly detect a video is not worthwhile and skip it; it's often not easy, people work really really hard to grab your attention.
What a great read. The author truly gets it.
Nannou: An open-source creative-coding framework for Rust
That’s what Twitter itself is.
Healthcare is made more expensive by all these rules about IT.

Healthcare is made more expensive by a lot of things. Sometimes the cost of treating one specific condition affecting one specific individual right now isn't the only thing that matters.

It isn’t some catastrophe if a breach happens.

Given that we're potentially talking about sensitive personal data, that is a wildly unsafe assumption. Sadly our society has and probably always will have both widespread cultural prejudices and individual personal prejudices against people who have or have had certain conditions, who are receiving or have received certain treatments or procedures, and so on.

If a computer wasn't fully encrypted but no identifiable data ever actually leaked then sure, that's a technicality but no real harm was done on that occasion. If a computer with a list of everyone who say had an abortion or received treatment for their mental health in the last decade was held insecurely and that data was leaked to the wrong people after a breach then that could profoundly affect or in the worst case even endanger the lives of the people involved.
Because calling it "free labour" just wouldn't attract quite as many people...

Perhaps ~2 decades ago I would've been a bit more optimistic, but now that I'm aware of the authoritarian dystopia which Google and the rest of Big Tech are trying to drive society towards, I feel obliged to point out that helping it achieve that goal is a really bad idea.
There’s also a downside of free. Anyone who has posted on Craigslist free knows. You almost always want to put an absurdly low price on it not free. That screens the “free tattoo at a party” people out. You don’t need that behavior in your day.
The materials are monitored and retailers have relationships with police, nationwide.

If you, a non-farmer, shows up to buy some fertilizer, etc, calls are made.
Dissenter in the thread here; rather than read Infinite Jest (which I've also not read, purely out of disinterest in doing so), I would kindly suggest that you read Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media, the premise of which is that the premise of your post is flawed.

And I really mean it; if you're the sort that has an interest in figuring out how things work, which is clearly the case here - you will find it effortless and fascinating reading.
Could that be because the highest risk people are already dead?
So-called "societal interests" are rhetorical pretexts defined by government itself, many of which are almost completely fictional and disingenuous. There is no consistent definition of what constitutes "societal interests" due to the reality that individual citizens have interests as unique as themselves. No individual citizen or society created, voted for, or granted power to these various regulatory agencies.

As far as infant formula goes, you can't regulate away what you call trivialities. Anyone who has ever worked in manufacturing, particularly quality control, will tell you there will always be defects. The regulations that exist now just leads to our current situation with mass recalls of even perfectly safe baby formula. If these recalls get too expensive, these companies will move to other locations if not go out of business entirely.

> That depends heavily on that country's stance on human rights

Define "human rights". A government that picks its "societal interests" is one that picks it's implementation of human rights. Suffice it to say, such governments aren't very interested in protecting those rights. Some may go so far as to violate them.
You know, a theme of From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne is the longstanding rivalry between weapon makers and armor makers. 150 years after it was written, that bit still seems to hold true.
A couple things I wonder about, and maybe someone has research on them(?)

Are many of us hungry because the food we are eating does not have the same vitamins / other nutrients that we used to get from more whole foods?

From craving a sunkist / orange drink and consuming it - only to want more later - is this craving the nutrients in oranges / fruit and we eat something to satisfy the immediate hunger then long for more cuz it didn't absorb from what we ate?

From processed shelf stable food, to industrial farmed foods that may sometime have less nutrients that a properly feed vegetable - we must be getting less vitamins and minerals even if we are getting some tomatoes slices and such in the meals right?

I also have though for a long time that if there was less stigma for mood altering things.. some people I have known would eat ice cream regularly in a way that I think if they had the ability to smoke a joint they would not.. or find some other solace from counseling to spiritual stuff or exercise or mushrooms or whatever... I think we as a society do not have enough socially acceptable / sanctioned things to do to release stress / feel better doing things.. and what is it in ice cream that makes you feel different?

chocolate too - is it dl-phenalmymine or something like that, it gives you a feeling everything is better / love feels a little? - you can buy that as a pill instead of consuming the calories for the feels - but it's not a popular thing.

For some it's socially acceptable to reach for a beer or benzos, but I think we need better options, both short term feels and longer terms heals.

random thoughts I hope someone else has found more info on.
Tether's "peg" has long been more of a guideline than a fact.

For example, Tether traded as low as $0.95 and as high as $1.40 in 2021.
> Oh look a Reason article where "government is bad." What a shock.

Let’s leave ad-hominem attacks on the publication out of this, shall we? I think we need more journalism that questions government and its efficiency. Not less.

It’s doing rather a disservice to excellent points you’ve brought up.
I've been told that benzos are a good option for someone anxious about flying. They make the flight tolerable and help the person feel comfortable flying in the future. They may only need to learn that there's nothing to fear in flying, and benzos can help them learn that.

I trust the person who told me that, but have heard a lot of benzo horror stories.

(I'm not afraid of flying)
Oh wow, yeah the VS Code release notes really are superb.
Mostly like the Biden administration will start doing this in the next two weeks. It will quietly sweep under the run the problem and say it's the population that's not following the science.
Not really, you can't get child labor on MTurk (officially). But hey, you get badges, and you help the community by providing them training data they'll lock up in a server and use to monopolize more sectors of the economy. Everyone wins when google can do better sentiment analysis on your non-english emails.
Was that the actual ad? It's not nearly as impressive is it? It just looks like some random clip of a music video. It just doesn't have the same sense of the commotion is caused by the tape to me.
Now let's imagine it's fun enough so that people don't see it as free labor, but see it as genuine entertainment, like, say, Wordle.

How would they weed out bad-faith players who would try to teach the AI bad ideas, just for, well, fun of it?

I don't believe they might fail to anticipate that; I want to understand their approach.
They should harness it's energy instead.
Another side effect of the war with Ukraine. What they don't say is who was buying: depending on where this wheat was destined for we get different outcomes. None of them good.
this is compounded by the fact that much of the armor on the ground in ukraine does not actually seem to feature the advanced defenses developed during the soviet era, like ERA. i've seen several photos of what appears to be decoy ERA on destroyed t-72's, which was nothing more than a hollow brick of steel. i suspect graft or a weak economy is the reason.
Reading the FAQ the prompts used are really interesting. Has Ought tried the new prompting techniques demonstrated used by Google’s PaLM?
>The probability that Elon is margin called by year end is roughly 40% according to option prices.

How did you deduce this from options prices? IV?
I’ve used these log-linear history in a few pieces of code. There is some configurability in the abstract - you could choose a different logarithm base.

In practice none of the implementations seem to provide that. Within the each set of buckets for a given log base you have reasonable precision at that magnitude. If your metric is oscillating around 1e6 you shouldn’t care much about the variance at 1e2, and with this scheme you don’t have to tune anything to provide for that.
Oh related though, there was a draft floating around for DNS over QUIC too, which ofc uses udp. I wonder if it has similar issues?
What I'm mainly saying, I think, is that it's possible to find good content on TikTok, but it takes discipline and effort. You are saying McLuhan would disagree and say it is not possible to find good content on TikTok? I'm lost there.

I'd like to read the book, though. I've never paid much attention to media studies but now with AIs powering things it's becoming more interesting to me. And I know people have been talking about it since the 1960s.
What a shitty article.
So this helps improve Google’s proprietary products. But they aren’t willing to open source the data set?
Events are an open discussion topic. right now i personally am trying to figure out event modelling for the Battle of Antietam (Sept 1862) as there is good data available.
in the long term, likely we'll want to have a parallel database to contain event data. we're still working through this.
> The proximate cause was a recall of formula produced by Abbott, but that was only the triggering event. In a well-functioning market, any temporary shortage caused by the removal of one company's product from the market would be addressed relatively quickly. Why hasn't that happened here?

My understanding is that the above has already and is indeed happening. Infant formula is still readily available - what's unavailable is infant formula from specific brands. For parents who are willing to switch to other brands, formula does exist. Is this not the case?
Godel's Proof
Godel showed that it is impossible to formally prove the
consistency of a system of arithmetic WITHIN that system
of arithmetic.

Given a static system that is clearly true.

However, I claim a self-modifying system can extend itself
to "look down" on the initial system of arithmetic.

I'm not sure how to show this yet. My intuition is leaning
toward using the standard trick of towers of types. Is it
possible to show a system of arithmetic is consistent
using higher order types?

Which raises the question of self-modifying Turing machines.
This leads to the concept of a meta-Turing machine.

Not only must the "instructions of the machine" be "on the tape"
so they can be modified but the "structure of the hardware"
also has to be "on the tape" so that changing the "structure"
changes the way the machine operates. A simple implementation
can be created in an FPGA which generates modifications to its
own Verilog definition and reloads itself, becoming a fundamentally
different machine.
open problem. this is a very public experiment. participation and input are welcome.
How do the like and follow actions affect the algorithm? From a training perspective when is it good to do?
I've been looking for the pool on the roof since I was about 8 or 9 years old.
The very fact that a country needs an IMF bailout means that its economic policies were not working.

Governments borrow to fund revenue deficits. What exactly does hodling a highly volatile asset that generates no cash flow acomplish?
> Engineers are fortunate to be an industry with high demand.

We’re in high demand because we produce high value. Companies are fortunate that engineers exist.
i've been posting replies without saying who i am. i am a member of the OHM advisory board as well as 10 year+ participant in OHM, Richard Welty.
That’s not the etymology of “doctor.”

They’re called “teachers” because their degree qualifies them to teach medical students.

It has its origin in the medieval academic degree system.

But it’s not in any way about their instruction of patients.
I'm no expert on infant nutrition but why wouldn't cow milk and/or goat milk be an acceptable substitute? They're both safe for humans to consume, they're widely available at fairly low cost. They provide enough nutrition to get large animals growing.

It may not be scientifically 100% "perfect" but why wouldn't it be "close enough"?
That, and the difficulty of explaining to management/shareholders that they plan on increasing payroll by N% despite not actually acquiring new talent in the process.
Absolutely. After the WSJ article a year or two ago, I gave it shot. Tried to tune the algorithm by selecting super cars related clips. What I got was a first burst of insanely fucked up content from rage including to glibly funny, you know stuff that you find on the bottom rungs of Reddit’s r/WTF pages. Then it got decent at showing car clips but with an occasional vomit inducing pimple popping or some girls dancing in bikinis.

I absolutely could not stand it. Not for intellectual content. Not for entertainment. I will never use it again and will recommend everyone to avoid this epic and monumental failure of human enterprise.

It makes me sad about the human species. This is what most people like to do.
The effects it mentions in humans are not new.
Seems to be mostly Airport data. Helsinki Airport is not in Helsinki, so this information is quite useless.
Also we do not measure windspeed in km/h.
OP here. My guess is the vast majority of TikTok users don't realize how much control they have over its contents, and thus they end up watching mostly attention-grabbing fluff. I think even they will stumble on good meaningful stuff, but it won't be that often. But yes, I've find with effort it's a great resource. The best one for short-form videos that I know of.
I wish the model could be downloadable, so I can just download this user's model/config, load it up in my TikTok, and experience their TikTok experience without having to retrain my own TikTok.

It would be fun to follow these 'models' instead of the actual Algorithm, so I can easily view the world through this individual (or businesses ;) ) "lens".
they added nutrients we know are necessary, and didn't remove anything (afaict) from the soil that they don't know the effects of. They also compared it to a control that is presumably similarly deficient to the extent possible from any place on a planet as teeming with life as Earth, and found differences they now need to explain.

A thing I think people (perhaps even Very Smart People especially) don't recognize is that our understanding of nutrition-related stuff in general is just.. not actually that great? Our knowledge of what makes things grow or not grow is basically built on Easy Mode (a nitrogen rich atmosphere with billions of years of biological background in every nook and cranny). We still have a lot to learn about what it'll take in Hard Mode. And learning one hard mode environment (the moon) will probably help us learn others (mars).
Basalt is mentioned in the article. I know just a little bit about farming and growing things but I don't know anything about this rock stuff. But if it's good (or, perhaps, at least not bad) for the crops then it does seem like a possible good idea.
I have zero faith that once the government programs are stopped the second step of giving money to the poor would actually happen.
This summarizes it so well. There’s this type of guys who think that any of this is insightful.
My age is 39 and doing on-and-off work since 2008. Single and no kids so I have no other commitments to make. If you added all the time that I was actually hired as a developer I think it is roughly 9 years.

There's really no social or network issues related to drug issues, or strong personality dysfunction issues. And there's nothing in my past that'll stand out in terms of business-related controversies or illegal activity. I have none of that in my record. I tend to be one of the quieter ones at work, hardly raising my voice or starting drama. I don't consider it to be as much burning bridges. I built my bridges poorly and they collapsed from neglect.

I still have an interest in software development. I make personal projects from time to time, since I was a college student, and put some on Github. Not paint-by-numbers stuff, but things that directly relate to my interests and problems I want to solve. Many people have really good engineering careers without having uploaded a single thing to a public repo so I know it's very possible to attain.

Will joining a staffing agency be easy and no-sweat in terms of interviews? I had interacted with Robert Half in the past, granted that was almost 10 years ago, but they made me sit in front of a computer to take a technical test. Some of the questions were arbitrary trivia knowledge- they seemed to care more for explicit knowledge over tacit knowledge. I didn't pass the test so there was not much they could do for placing me for work.

I also tried Triplebyte because their more novel approach got my attention. It really heavily favored people that can finish the tests fast. I was never fast enough in my three attempts so didn't get into the phase of company selection.

You finish off by saying I should think about completing my education more formally. I swing back and forth on this thought often. I wonder how necessary this is, given that the common advice I receive on education is, the job experience you have trumps education. In other words once you have like ~5 YOE your degree no longer matters. With my background, is it still worthwhile to formally complete the CS degree?
I wrote a long comment and then deleted it. I'm just here to say benzos are no joke. Do not take them unless you absolutely have to. Please, stop taking them if you suspect you are dependent, with a professional helping you taper and prescribing alternative non-benzo drugs as needed.

Benzos are a deal with Satan incarnate. They can be lifesaving but they extract a terrible cost.
Prototyping a TV app and controlling it remotely with another prototype
I do interviews at a FAANG. If you don’t want to post identifying info here, send me your resume and a paragraph intro and I’ll tell you what gaps hiring managers are seeing. Email is in my profile.
Agreed. Another way of looking at it is that people trawling craigslist free value their own time very low, and thus are unlikely to respect your time much either.
I agree it's kind of odd that our dev process is essentially a sea of broken states with intermittent workingness (if you count by states, I mean). Version control commits are an attempt to hilight/preserve those working states.

Limiting deltas to working-only states would, I think, result in something akin to MIT's 'Scratch' language, where kids put together puzzle pieces - a program can only be wrong at a semantic level, never at a source code level. OTOH, refactoring power tools available in modern IDEs are a bit of a counter-argument in that they allow code transforms that don't usually make much of a semantic difference (eg. 'inline this', 'extract this as a variable', etc) But as you say, that's "written code" not "writing code".

For writing code, I think the closest current IDE feature to tylr would maybe be syntax hilighting. It'd be cool to maybe have some kind of 'expression hilighting' mode, and maybe an 'expression editor' mode with actions like tylr supports.
Regulation can also mandate a reserve stock.

The fact these regulations didn't reflects badly on these regulations, not regulation in general.
Did you blow the whistle on this abuse? If this was also in the UK then it looks like exactly the sort of serious breach of protocol that the ICO should investigate. If it involved sensitive personal data about lots of people then it might realistically have enough weight for that to actually happen too.
The flaw in this is that even if you rise through the ranks, each promotion usually only gets you a 10% raise at most, 15-20% if you’re really lucky. So your initial low comp will continue to haunt you unless you rise to a level where there’s a step change in pay, usually some sort of leadership role.

If turnover is low, leadership will often assume people must be fine with their current compensation, since their data indicates the market continues to clear.

More than once I’ve seen startups go and do a round of comp adjustments after an uptick in turnover.
You also need to understand whether the taxes are paid by the company, the employee or both. In my country the company pays around 10% of the gross salary in taxes, and the employee pays 40%.