skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would it be hard to prove that functional code is actually runnable?
My benchmark for Siri will be when it learns to do "Siri, wake me up an hour earlier tomorrow". What it currently does it set a new alarm for 1 hour in the future.
I mean, saying "5% of your money is gone because a company in your index fund went bankrupt, and you have no recourse" is no different. And things happen like that all the time. It's why all normal financial investments come with very explicit upfront warnings that they're not guaranteed.

The issue is treating a currency as an investment is just...foolhardy from the get got. Just don't do that. It's silly. People saw the value of it go up - or start to have any in the first place really - and saw a "get rich quick scheme" where there wasn't one. It was the brith of a digital currency, nothing more.
> But a motivated listener can always find ways to misunderstand.

No more questions, your honor.
Or that there isn't enough competition in the market.
Octopi is also THE epitome of the "i" pluralization. I see people using focuses more than foci, but it's a common callout that octopus plural is octopi
I didn’t say that. My point is that race is to a much greater degree a fluid and socially defined construct than gender. And Adams is “obviously” making a joke at the expense of white people on positions of power who view them in the exact opposite way.
Opera does this by default.
I didn't see any justification on jurisdiction in the article. That seems like a massive journalistic miss to me.
Litera | Software Developer (Clojure / Go) | Canada, Remote | Full-time | https://www.litera.com/

Litera, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a fast-growing software company and one of the leading legal technology suppliers in the world. Serving more than 90% of the world's largest law firms, our software is used by hundreds of thousands of lawyers every day.

Our Clojure and Go roles are part of the Kira product team, where we build a tool for lawyers to bulk review contracts with the help of ML. The Go side is where the ML lives, and we're happy for people to build their ML skills after joining the team. Everything else is in Clojure, including business logic, UI, etc.

Our current Clojure openings report to me, currently focused on implementing an improved search engine with OpenSearch. My team cares a lot about providing great UX, and we'd love to have more colleagues with a similar mindset.

Roles:

- Senior Clojure developer: https://jobs.jobvite.com/litera/job/oqw7jfw6
- Junior Clojure developer: https://jobs.jobvite.com/litera/job/o2v7jfwH
- Go developer: https://jobs.jobvite.com/litera/job/oev7jfwT

And if you want to discuss with me directly: matthew.darling@litera.com
It's down again at the same time, this makes me curious https://status.linode.com/incidents/8qnvzrfz7hg2
We have had a great experience scheduling Meltano/dbt inside Orchest for our Metabase dashboards. As a pattern, combining these declarative/configuration CLI tools with a flexible orchestration layer (Orchest can run any containerized task, it will containerize transparently for you) really shines.
Small startups need to be poaching ‘Big Boys’ employees, not the other way round. I see many boutique shops offering (nearly) the same pay, and poaching from FAANG+M (The M is Micro$oft)
I think Equifax is not, or at least not only, in the business of scoring the credit worthyness of consumers. Their main business might be selling the illusion of trustworthyness.

Banks have to convince themselves that their decisions are rational. They have to convince the governement and the public that they are not pushing people needlessly in poverty. They convince their shareholders and lenders that the money entrusted to them is well-managed.

The easy way is to outsource the core decision - and the blame for bad decisions- to a third party like Equifax. Equifax does some magical math and provides an air of rationality. As long as the system works well enough to provide the illusion of correctness while still allowing great profits, it does not matter much for anybody involved if some people accidentally get caught up in the machinery.

It's a bit like the justice system. That system has to provide the impression that justice gets served, or people will become vigilantes and serve decentralized justice themselves. Actually convicting criminals and freeing innocents is a good way to provide that impression, but it is not the only way
Well, "devs" are doing that for the past 15 years, but using Google (without this pre-requisite in the job description tho)
That corporate nonsense sounds more like Elon Musk companies to be honest. I guess the running joke from the world of Silicon Valley (TV Show) is that all companies say they are "making the world a better place"

The real question is: Are they SoMoLo or MoSoLo or LoMoSo?

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
> At that point, you are updating your resume, and checking on the quality of your parachute

The ordering of these events seems off but that's understandable considering we're talking about distributed systems.
Do you even have to stop Postgres if using ZFS snapshots? ZFS snapshots are atomic, so I’d expect that to be fine. If it wasn’t fine, that would also mean Postgres couldn’t handle power failure or other sudden failures.
It's not used by many, but it's used by niche environments that have a lot of money, especially in Fintech. When you want your code to be extremely reliable while really fast, there's nothing like languages like OCaml or Haskell.
former L3, here. my total comp was around 160k USD with base salary at 113k USD (based in Seattle area).
I'm curious to know if this is anyone's first time hearing about Trino?
I've been using Midjourney [1] (it's not free, 25 photos demo, then 10$ for ~200 photos or 30$ for unlimited I think?). It's fairly fast, ~20s for a grid of 4, then as much for upscaling. I like the controls, it lets you do variations and tweak the image as you go.

It's not as good for doing concrete asks, but it's very good for getting specific vibes.

The website feed [1] requires Discord login to view examples, but there's some unofficial galleries [2]

[0] https://www.midjourney.com/

[1] https://www.midjourney.com/app/feed/all/

[2] https://www.instagram.com/midjourney.gallery/
> I would want the memory slicing + isolation...

Fine, but then that's your reason. "until there's a security vuln in an end-of-life piece of core software...and then it's a 4+ week slog of building a new server" isn't a difference in the context of comparing Xen VMs and lxd containers. As an aside, lxd does support cgroup memory slicing. It has the advantage that it's not mandatory like it is in VMs, but you can do it if you want it.

> Would rather use Docker for containers because the whole container ecosystem is built around it.

This makes no sense. You're hearing the word "container" and inferring an equivalence that does not exist. The "whole container ecosystem" is something that exists for Docker-style containers, and is entirely irrelevant for lxd containers.

lxd containers are equivalent to full systems, and exist in the "Use one big server" ecosystem. If you're familiar with running a full system into a VM, then you're familiar with the inside of a lxd container. They're the same. In userspace, there's no significant difference.
Before working in SWE I taught middle school math. The absurdity of textbook sales is truly incredible. Some textbook reps will come and attempt to sell all the teachers on how wonderful their books are. The irony of this being a completely useless exercise seems to be lost on nobody, certainly not the disaffected teachers that know their feedback to administration will be ignored. There are, of course, promises of how your life will be magically simplified through this year's books and how amazing the technology integration is.

"Technology" is thrown around like security buzzwords at BlackHat in these meetings, always with no vision for what that looks like. Teaching kids that mathematics is a fundamental set of ideas that can be applied to solve a wide variety of problems? No, no. Drill them with problems in abstraction, completely isolated from any idea of why the algorithm you have them following works. Make a bloated web interface for answering multiple choice problems instead of instilling curiosity or attempting to teach them how to use the magic light box to approach new problems or even how it works.

This is thoroughly unsurprising and aligns exactly with the approach I saw of needing "smart boards" that were supposed to revolutionize education, or "clickers" so kids could vote live instead of just a show of hands.
Implicit in your argument is that people would always value SV > the rest of the US > Canada > Poor countries.

There are a lot of very talented people that have values that don't align that way for a variety of extremely valid reasons.

As someone who has the right to work in both Canada and the US, and who has been attempted to recruit by SV companies, I prefer the benefits of living where I do in Canada over the lifestyle costs of living in SV with 3x the money.
No need for apologies! I 100% agree that the physical metaphor doesn't work and said so in another nearby comment.

If you go back to Phil Wadler's original paper on implementing monads in haskell, he doesn't talk about category theory or boxes or anything. He lays out a handful of common things you might do in programming but which seem totally unrelated. For each one he implements a solution and then reveals that all these solutions fit the same interface.
What about with wine? I haven't tried, but could old 16bit apps run in wine on windows x64?
How can Nomad afford to lose $150M and go on like nothing happened? Same for other exchanges which have lost hundreds of millions. It seems really weird. Any real-world company which would lose $150M would have a lot of pressure on it, investigations, dismissals, etc.
That's what I assumed was the case. Seems like a good opportunity for the community to take on for major distros.
This breaks down when you think of all the code that assumes 60 seconds in a minute:

ONE_HOUR_AGO = 60*60

Apply that to the wrong hour and... oops.
> 99% of apps are best fit as monolithic apps and databases and should focus on business value rather than scale they'll never see

You incorrectly assume that 99% of apps are building these architectures for scalability reasons.

When in reality it's far more for development productivity, security, use of third party services, different languages etc.
How did you plan to cash out on these "ideas"? They're 10 a penny surely?
It certainly reduces the # of designers necessary. Just because it doesn't obliterate all of the designers doesn't mean the profession isn't at risk. Today fewer data viz experts are hired despite the proliferation of data, since we now have Tableau, Looker, etc

A more obtuse example, how many lift operators do you see today?
The entire point of the article is that your dated example no longer applies: you can fit the vast majority of common loads on a single server now, they are this powerful.

Redundancy concerns are also addressed in the article.
Yes: https://www.midjourney.com/ .. I use it as well as DALL-E 2 and it's better for anything particularly arty, dreamy, patterns, etc.
If you stop at the first bullet point then you have a backup solution.
If you do this then you'll have the hardest possible migration when the time comes to split it up. It will take you literally years, perhaps even a decade.

Shard your datastore from day 1, get your dataflow right so that you don't need atomicity, and it'll be painless and scale effortlessly. More importantly, you won't be able to paper over crappy dataflow. It's like using proper types in your code: yes, it takes a bit more effort up-front compared to just YOLOing everything, but it pays dividends pretty quickly.
"Feedback from these engineers ultimately culminated in the managers making the decision to give automatic contributor rights to any Facebook engineer working on Presto, so that these engineers could move faster."

I'm confused -- does Facebook not have similar code review infrastructure as Google, etc. That is: nothing -- I mean nothing -- gets "contributed" at Google without it going through code review.

Were FB engineers able to commit directly without review? Or is it that they were given some kind of "owners" privilege to fast track reviews? This all sounds bad.
A friend did some high-end contract work for Google, and was hired many months before the project started. This person was paid a very high contractor rate to "review documents and onboarding" and was told by a director this is a common tactic that Google uses to ensure availability of high end engineers, and to prevent their competitors from hiring.
> The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good.

Well, that's kinda the bad thing...I'd gladly pay $5/month or whatever because I use this crap software every day, but trying to sell this to clients (what's this, this multi-million software we just bought now also needs an extra $5/user to get actually useful context-sensitive help!!!??) would be "a bad look".

Alternatively, perhaps my employer could buy a perpetual license per client or something and bundle it in, except they give 0 shits about customer satisfaction (it is the norm in the industry).

Realistically, someone who had the slightest clue about javascript (not me!) could probably figure out how to write a few lines of javascript to inject all this according to a single configuration file somewhere, but in the meantime (likely forever) I'd love to find some tool that can do it.
That makes me think of they actually target developers somehow. I also got in couple days ago providing just email and being soft developer.

I know at least one artist and one relatively popular youtuber (with over million subs) who applied to a waiting list much earlier than me and are still waiting.
There has to be x - y humans that needs X - Y hours instead of X humans needing X hours. And that is a real risk to the profession
If it's being exposed, possibly because of security updates?
I like the scroll waves!
IMO the metaphor is already getting too frayed at this point.

I'm not opposed to metaphors in general, but metaphors are lot like abstractions. If you don't get the right one then the details leak everywhere and you may as well have not used it to begin with.
> The problem with this DB system is that you have to know all the queries before you can define the schema

Not true.

You just need to optimise your schema if you want the best performance. Exactly the same as an RDBMS.
Two things that I can say with certainty I've heard literally every single one of the ~25 years I've been in this game:

1. "We're in a bubble!, it's only a matter of time before it all comes down"
2. "The market is hot for developers right now!"

I've been through hiring sprees and layoffs, I've had startups succeed and fail, and I don't think my experiences are exceptional in any way. Things wax and wane, trends come and go. Keep a bit of savings, live within your means, and do good work and things will most likely work out well for you in the long run.
To an extent. But I think it'll get baked into existing jobs. A bit like how "computer skills" or the ability to write good Google queries ended up as part of regular clerical work.
>non-normies I assume can still do black market work.

Why do you want non-normies to have gun toting government thugs put them in a concrete box for 20 years because they don't want to get a permission slip to do the same thing you did?
I really enjoy Midjourney for more abstract and vague vibe art. It's not as good at specific stuff (although Imagen/Parti are much better at it even than Dall-E too, which has its own shortcoming around text and numbers).

My favorite is coming up with two word prompts, like "endless beginnings" or "stressful shapes" or "happy anxiety".
Ah, so this is another "Falsehoods programmers believe about time" situation.

https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...
notwithstanding the norm in big tech, what nibbleshifter described is pretty common for salary-earning employees in other industries.
It should have been obvious to anyone that people would do less day trading once they had anything better to do.
According to https://trino.io/blog/2020/12/27/announcing-trino.html , because of trademark registration and enforcement by Facebook.

(IMHO, PrestoSQL also looked maybe a little too much like PostgreSQL in this space.)

I'm imagining an unusually efficient brandstorming session. "OK, folks, idea hats on, there are no bad ideas... we've got Presto..." "Uh... new Presto... New-o..." "Neutrino..." "Trino?" "Trino!" "Searching it now!"
The main worry about a negative leap second is that we have never had one so we don’t know what surprising failure modes might turn up.
Control-C has been the ‘break’ key for serial consoles since the 1970s so it is the GUI cut and paste that is new.
I've been going with "senior dogsbody" for a while, although lately I've been road-testing "executive mega-fauna".
You're describing operations done on data in memory to save memory. That list of fractions still needs to be in memory at some point. And if you're batching, this whole discussion goes out of the window.
Am I the only one here using Chrome or is everyone else just ignoring the table being broken? The author used an <object> tag which just results in Chrome displaying "This plugin is not supported". I'm unsure why they didn't just use an iframe instead.
That's true, but they don't fix any more carbon after they're fully grown. I'm not against tree planting, but it's probably a bit oversold as a solution. Kelp probably presents a more interesting opportunity.
I don't believe you. Eventual consistency is how the real world works, what possible use case is there where it wouldn't be acceptable? Even if you somehow made the display widget part of the database, you can't make the reader's eyeballs ACID-compliant.
Shouldn't the government run any credit bureau like it does the treasury?
Filecoin storage is analogous to glacier, not s3. It's about 2000x cheaper.

IPFS can be used like s3 with a third party shim for between free and 400x cheaper.
I've never heard of it. Im not a programmer, though I read hacker news daily.
True. But he's also not wrong. I've lost track of how many companies have been on HN for doing this. Google especially. (I'm employed by neither oracle nor google.)

Some automated system just cancels you, and somehow these big tech companies often just...don't have customer support phone lines so you can't talk to an employee unless you go to the office.

It's a deliberate cost savings on their part that they seem to have just...gotten away with. I think there's a need for some sort of regulation here where if someone gives you money, you should be entitled to a phone number to call them at.
I am not claiming the hiring freeze makes the stability illusory, I am claiming that the entire concept of stability is fictional

EDIT: Actually, you've also missed my point in another respect: Even if there's a real hiring freeze the immediate impact would be on people seeking FAANG jobs, not those who already have them. Honestly I don't even know what you think you're responding to. Maybe you're at a FAANG and think I'm admonishing you? There's no need to be defensive. I am trying to offer advice, not to moralize at people
Ya, psychedelics are certainly "in the neighborhood" of this problem, but I'm thinking quite a bit different scope. Most people would probably think I'm insane for thinking about it in the way I do, as opposed to "Oh, well that's just the way people are, there's nothing you can do!". It's kinda one of those "fish don't realize they are swimming in water" types of things.
swinging the ax I take full responsibility for this
> Moreover, anyone who reads your code must know all language constructs you are using or they are lost and can't fix any issue in your code.

Does this not apply to every language ever?
Not really. It’s a mixture of theoretical and practical learning which reinforce one another. Simulation is also being brought in although it’s limited by unrealistic models.
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This is where I think people try to pull 'gotchas' on Marx because Capitalism hasn't reached the point of bursting yet. I don't necessarily think he was wrong, nor right. The reality, the persistence of capitalism will happen so long as people/systems are willing to be flexible enough to "resolve the current set of contradictions." Now, those resolution's sometimes don't remain resolved because many of us have the memory of a goldfish when it comes to economics. But as long as people who have the powers to make the calls are willing to bend over backwards enough (even temporarily), capitalism won't cease.
Prompt crafting is quickly becoming an art. I just found out yesterday that there's actually market places for buying and selling prompts [0]. It can really make a big difference if you can tune the image by adding the right words. Midjourney [1] even allows things such as adjusting the weight of each keyword or how "literal" the AI should take your prompt.

[0] https://promptbase.com/

[1] https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/user-manual
The absolute hubris of SV people thinking that they can individually perform the jobs of 2-3 competent teams of people at literally any company outside of SV is why a lot of talented people want nothing to do with SV.
Studies have been done! Here is the latest one, for psilocybin. The mystical experiences are deeply related to therapeutic outcome https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.8416...

Here is the first one I am aware of: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050654/. So 14 years of evidence backing up this claim.
Thanks for sharing! I hope the Arduino teams heads in this direction as well.
Dalle mini is not the same dalle and it's far worse.
Do you think libraries are unethical in countries where they don't do that?
Addiction issues are a totally different animal. Just look up the definition of addiction. I’ll comfortably stand by my statement of use on the order of every few years being wellllllll within the margins of reasonable use.
"vile, aggressive, hysterical rubbish."

Also known as "wrongthink".
is by definition wealthy.

Or at least they where before investing in crypto...
Dalle from OpenAI, it's still in private beta, the quality of the model is much better but unfortunately the results are filtered (a lot)
Let me give you an example. Back in the 1990s the ozone hole was considered a serious problem. Scientists argued that with unchecked emission of CFCs the hole will grow larger and cause serious harm.

Limits on CFCs were implemented, the hole stopped growing.

Pfft, scientists, warning against a disaster, which never comes because we worked to prevent it. What do they know?
Linode EU-West (London) is out again
They seem to be struggling. There was a substantial outage yesterday too
I always consider things like carbon-capture to be under the category of "We need to do all of the above". Capturing carbon at scale gives us more time to move to renewable energy, which is going to take longer than we have. So we need to do capture, and renewables, and reducing overall energy, and whatever else we can think of. If we had started moving to renewables and electrifying everything 30 years ago, carbon capture wouldn't be needed. But it is needed now.