skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All work is fancy bricklaying if you're jaded enough.

Surgeon? Just spackling the same old organs day in day out, with the additional downside of potentially killing someone if you have an off day and place a brick upside down.

Professional football player? It's repetitive manual labor! Often performed outdoors in inclement weather. High likelihood of involuntary retirement due to workplace injury.

Executive? Staring at endless spreadsheets all day... With rows and rows of those brick-like rectangular cells...

All fun aside, I don't think many bricklayers could find it within themselves to complain about making 200k a year to work in jeans and a hoodie in an air-conditioned building with foosball tables and free snacks.
that doesn’t make you good at interviewing! it might mean the opposite! you might be too loss averse
Fantastic - a 1972 Washington State law will help ALL the US to understand where the money is coming from re. political advertising.
Why do people fetishise growth? Cancer is growth. How about measuring things that actually matter? Health, happiness, freedom etc.?
I would be interested to see what varying levels of noise added to these intermediate steps produces. In this example it looks like it kind-of decided what it was drawing in the transition from steps 11 to 14 and then refined.

Would a little noise added around here make a subtly different result, widely diverge, or simply slow the refining process?
I wouldn't go as far as saying your software will end in the garbage. There must be good software that exists that didn't use user stories some now or I'm the past
This is a game of whack-a-mole, and no amount of regulation will help if the fundamental identity is founded up on bits of information like this. We should pass regulation for verification of identity using secure means, not giving out SSN + Birthday and call it a day.

This is making the problem worse I think.
I don't get the impression that Apple SEG pays very well, though it does pay slightly more than competitors.
My latest desktop has Thunderbolt 4. While I'm glad I have it, as it's a mITX system, I really only use it to connect to a docking station. It's also great for monitors or 10Gbit ethernet if needed. The external SSD that I use is limited to 1GB/sec, and I rarely hit that with my use case, closer to 500MB/sec. To take advantage of 5GB/sec the external drive would have to be pretty well-built (expensive). My drive is the Samsung T7 Shield 2TB, which is the best price/performance for sustained performance that I could find on the market today.

I do think external IO should try to keep pace with internal IO speeds, but it comes at a significant cost on the peripheral side of things. You also run into cable length issues. There's a reason why internal IO gets to faster speeds so much sooner, path traces don't have to deal with real-world external cable lengths. The link alludes to this, but I'd love to know how long of a cable you can use with 15GBps external devices considering the length on my passive Thunderbolt 3 dock cable is 2.3ft. USB 4.0 "v2" at 120Gbps will support a 2inch passive cable.
I'd describe it as regulated pretty heavily in both directions, with some provisions to protect unions and some to restrict unions. The two primary pieces of legislation reflect that: the National Labor Relations Act (1935, part of the Second New Deal) mostly protects unions, while the Taft-Hartley Act (1947, passed over Truman's veto) mostly restricts unions.
My diy CNC mill says hi. Making anything cool?
For those in SV: you can see this kind of thing in person in Salinas.

5% unbanked https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html
I read as “only one person on the team I was interviewing for”, not “only one person was swe”
Really? That would be conceptually similar to AI-generated images. What would have been the rationale?
Pogs? Beanie Babies? Cabbage Patch? Garbage Pail Kids?
Lmao, is this true? What an absolute joke.
Try to develop her during the probationary period. Sometimes it’s just a rough start
> The problem is the commodification of your personal data.

Can't it be both things at once? To say it's not at all the cops fault is ridiculous.
Surprised to see Square and Canva in the list there. I’m currently staff level elsewhere but semi-regularly get approached by them with offers lower than $200k for senior roles. Would you say the salaries mentioned are fairly common there or fairly niche?
Future history, mind-machine manipulation, scary.
Yes. They are declarative.
It's linked in the article but here you go NSFW) https://pornpen.ai/
Related recent article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32595083
I could use an assist/pointers on running this better. Would love to chat since you seem to have some knowledge here. If you're game, feel free to contact me at my HN username at Google's email service. Cheers!
> the best thing to do would be to keep your spend way below your means. this maximizes your options and gives you choice. but who does that?

Many do. The FIRE movement shows this.
Fajita lunch and midnight skinny-dip? Worth it!

Is there really such a high supply of startup workers?
Do you do the full loop with each company? How do you select the companies? Do you feel bad if they’re smaller ones and you’re not serious about it?
It feels likely the longterm future of flight pricing variances will be adversarial programming to counter the Google selection bias effects.

We may 'win' in the downspikes and 'lose' significantly if we cannot avoid the upspikes.

I used Google flights as a hedge for some work and pleasure travel, it helped provide some certainty to booking.

Google needs to be able to show confirmed prices, because a lot of the lows are highly ephemeral fares.

Google should work with FF points schemes to also allow prebook with points!
That'd be a problem if there'd be a shortage of interesting jobs.

And, speaking as somebody who's seen a 4-digit number of interview packets: The multi-interviewer format is far from flawless, too. The capability of groups of humans to collectively fuck up without ever talking to each other is quite impressive.

If you absolutely want to invest more time, at least build a multi-hour interview that has people do their job, in a team environment. Because that's what ultimately will happen.

Don't do multiple rounds of CS trivia.
What about a Pi Zero 2 Wi-Fi for $15?

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/
Not to mention buying legal is super fun.

Going into stores, trying new strains, flavours etc. So much fun.
Lots of things that are CO2 intensive now will not be in the future. We already shut down the majority of the coal power plants and replaced them with natural gas, and we'll then replace natural gas with solar and wind.
PyPI Supply Chain Attack
I guess capitalism (or really: resource optimization) is often incompatible with social equality?

You’re going to optimize for a proven market. Indeed, it’s absolutely plausible that the existence of that market drowns out other possible markets from emerging. But how do you get an organization with limited resources to make the less optimal choice?

I guess we need government AI porn.
>doesn't hurt anybody

You're looking at it too narrowly. AI-generated CSAM may facilitate a sexual interest in children among certain individuals. Development of such an interest makes it significantly more likely they will abuse children. So it ought be illegal.
You don't need to replace Twitter. It doesn't need to exist in the first place. Just stop using it. Replace using Twitter with not using Twitter.
Let's discuss the morality first.

There's a few reasons that consuming CSAM can be immoral:

- encouraging further production by adding view count, ad revenue, social encouragement to creators.

- compounding victimization by improving circulation.

- apparent gateway effect, either in the individual consuming it or by allowing a culture of tolerance.

It's the same logic for snuff films.

AI created CSAM basically removes the first two issues and leaves the third. But I'd add that the third is somewhat up for debate unless there's some specific evidence from psychology (although my default assumption is that you're right on this). And I'd add that there's some argument that it reduces the demand for real CSAM.
Improved Multi-Blade Blower [video]
This is fantastic. Awesome project!
AFAIK most such systems take greyscale screenshots, downsample them to basically not much more than a thumbnail, and compresses that with a lossy algorithm.

Still though, people watch home video of their kids on their televisions! Some people make home-made porn for their own enjoyment.

Meanwhile somewhere in a data centre in South Korea...
If you're going to require even odds, then governments should very much stay out of gambling all together; I don't want tax dollars going to the overhead costs of running what ultimately will amount to an otherwise net-neutral endeavor.

Now, perhaps if you have the stores that sell lottery tickets footing that bill as a way of driving up traffic to their stores, I could see a case for this system existing. Still strange for the government I imagine, but I have seen bars use this sort of "no profit" gambling game just as a way to keep regulars coming. Pay $1 to roll 5 dice, if you get a yahtzee, you win whatever's in the pot (which is comprised of other folks' pay-ins), and perhaps things like 3 of a kind to get a second roll, full house to get a second roll free, etc. At the end of the day, the bar makes nothing, but it serves to habituate people going to THAT bar to grab their after work beer. Totally illegal where I've seen it, but likewise, not really hazardous enough for anyone to bat an eye about it either (the lotto machine or the booze itself was clearly the bigger vice).
Vue / Vuetify / Nuxt dev here, and a pinch of php. I used to work with some Postgres in a previous job.

Personally I don’t understand how people can keep switching between different libraries all the time. I’ve been working Vue for the past year and I still know I don’t know everything.

Glad I’ve gotten hang of typescript though.
The rabbit hole goes deep.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684

I remember a HN post from several years ago where a location data provider left an exposed API or web page that allowed anyone to enter a phone number and see the location of the device in real time, but I can't find it now.
Servers overloaded! Gotta be kidding me!
Thank you for your kind words. I'm so pleased to hear my little bit of work lead to some fun experiences for you and your family! Any fun prompts you particularly enjoyed and would like to share?
Thank you too. I used to love speech and debate in high school where it was about ideas, not emotions
Perhaps not for you, but for me, who has never been on twitter it does ok.

That aside, The whole twitter style, shouting into the void, microblog communication platform is really stupid.

When I decided to give mastodon a try because someone I know set up an instance devoted to a subject I enjoy. the whole experience was baffling and inefficient compared to other communications systems I have tried. I stick with it because local instance is only about 100 people and they are all good folk. I Have a hard time imagining how terrible it is to have the whole world on one instance and am rather happy that I passed on twitter.
... At least they got a reply rather than being ghosted at the last stage
Declarative has a few definitions with respect to computer languages, and the Nix community seems to be using one and ignoring others.

When I think of declarative, I think of a language that has less power than a Turing-complete language. Think Make without bash or any shell. Or HTML without CSS.

In other words, the Nix community seems to use "declarative" as meaning "without side effects" where some programmers, like myself, hear "declarative" and think of something like HTML without CSS or JSON.
i already shrunk back inwards at the mention of 14 pomodoros.
Have you thought that of a company had over 1.5 million employees, everyone’s experience wouldn’t be the same?

Besides, I purposefully put myself in a position that I wouldn’t have to relocate to a high cost of living area. I knew that Azure, AWS, and GCP had a Professional Services department that may require a lot of travel. But no relocation, no on call, etc.

Then a worldwide pandemic happened that reduced travel…
But how would they charge absurd rebooking fees?
> That would be conceptually similar to AI-generated images.

I would expect those to be similarly illegal in the same jurisdiction.

> What would have been the rationale?

If I see a photo of ice cream, I tend to crave real ice cream.
Vinay Prasad.

“Wearing an n95 to avoid the virus after vaccination is futile. You will eventually stop wearing it. And then you will eventually get hit with a subsequent epidemic wave. Or catch the virus between waves.” [1]

“So ‘I'm done with COVID’ is the honorable, equitable, altruistic, egalitarian, pro-science message that we need right now to combat the delusional thinking that ignored trade-offs for so long and would have us live in a bunker forever.” [2]

And seemingly, his warped definition of “Duty” [3] includes recommending children to be repeatedly exposed a virus that has deleterious, long-term effects effects on multiple organ systems, basing his arguments on comparing SARS-CoV-2 to a common cold virus (“Stop testing kids”). [4]

More of his egregious stuff is noted on a parody Twitter account. [5]

[1]: https://twitter.com/vprasadmdmph/status/1485312764297891843

[2]: https://twitter.com/vprasadmdmph/status/1485312770635538435

[3]: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/stop-testing-kids

[3]: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/duty

[4]: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/stop-testing-kids

[5]: https://twitter.com/vpwndf
Why not an index on created for speeding up the "new" sort?

What indexes should you create? One for each sort you have?

(I'm just playing around cloning Reddit and running into all sorts of performance problems. Mostly due to celery taking all my memory)
Great: try flying SQ from London to Dublin.

BA is a perfect example - a few years ago it was an OK airline, but it has chased the policies of RyanAir (even hiring their CEO!) to the point where they are a complete shit show.

You’re pretending there is a market where consumers have input where no such thing exists.
Honestly, it sounds like you dodged a bullet.
It seems to me that science has been political since it first came into existence, even before we had a well-defined scientific method.

Science is political because the organizations and institutions that fund/support science decide which scientific studies get funded/supported, and the outcome of the scientific process often affects the legitimacy of those organizations' and instutitions'.
“UAW protect their workers so well”

Maybe it’s the UAW or maybe the auto manufactures that agreed to it, but in the 90s there was serious waste. Example 1 - if the Big Three laid off a worker, they were guaranteed to get paid 90% their pay. This is why there were so many rebates on American cars, because it didn’t make financial sense to cut production. Example 2 - the drafting workers that worked the CAD machines, their contract stipulated 54 hours of work per week (overtime of course for those 14 hours). There wasn’t 54 hours of work available, so these folks would come in (including Saturdays) and just sit there and read the newspaper.
The first sale doctrine also forces people to give up their property (when they sell it).

From a consumer protection perspectiv, it seems completely reasonable to say hardware devices have to have FOSS drivers, and that all hardware/software errata must be documented in public for at least N years.

That could be watered down by only requiring the open sourcing / public docs when the manufacturer decides to drop driver support for the current release of the phone OS.
I'd love to see moderation get tighter.

Flag more! It makes for tighter moderation and is practically more readily achievable than 'more dang'.
<raises hand>

My spouse and I have household income around the median for the area, and through a combination of discipline and good luck have managed to keep expenses very low.

It's not a life of depravation. We take nice vacations and buy the things we want, but we have to be careful not to want things like fancy cars or elaborate remodels. These seem like very unimportant things to forego when you stand to gain freedom from monetary worry.
Rather than being annoyed, maybe you should ask why the other offer was "better".
I think that's only USB 3.1 Rev2, but don't quote me on that.
(NSFW images below)

I think what happens is that in the early stages of generation, the model picks up on arm-like structures and just keeps building it out. It doesn't realize that the overall structure will be flawed later on.

(3 arms)

https://pornpen.ai/view/B8DguHKatzDvRk7esEX9

(bonus, 3 breasts)

https://pornpen.ai/view/vZ2XbVHRNTEX5kWqOLJA
The CMU Database Groups YouTube channel has a very good material on this. I highly recommend the Intro to Database Systems videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/CMUDatabaseGroup/playlists
> Transit is expensive, claiming people have a right to free transit is just idiotic on so many levels.

It doesn't matter how expensive transit is, if the total costs of fare collection & enforcement is greater than what they collect they're better off making it free and potentially making up the small shortfall with extra taxes.

Considering a lot of these systems will be built by large consultancies specialized in milking out government contracts while delivering shoddy work, I wouldn't be surprised if fare collection was actually way more expensive that it needs to be.
I thought for sure Mr. Rex was going to end up being the actual CEO.
> Too bad rust doesn't really do dynamic linking.

As far as I remember, you can actually do dynamic linking. But it has its caveats.

Maybe using two different crates, lib-internal and lib-external, where lib-internal compiles to an dylib/so that exposes a C-abi compatible interface. Lib-external it’s just a idiomatic Rust wrapper to that api. It’s a little bit wonky, but I’m pretty sure that it can work.
The interview revolved almost 100% around their leadership principles, of which humility is not one, so that should pinpoint it. And I said no one was a software engineer. All six were management.
Can Dhall be that language?
> For years now, anyone who watches sports on TV or the internet has been bombarded with advertisements that insist you aren’t really enjoying the game unless you are betting money on it

> How could any fan possibly have enjoyed the Patriots’ 25-point fourth-quarter comeback against the Falcons if he didn’t have “skin in the game”?

I've only bet a couple superbowls, betting on the game does, in fact, make it a lot more interesting. I'm not a pro/college sports fan, though, maybe that's relevant. (I like playing sports, not spectating)
I'm generally with you, particularly on the basis of non-aggression principles of libertarianism. That said, I'm not 100% sure that I actually think of all advertising as non-aggressive. There's room for a whole deep dive here on whether or not the coercion in toying with what we've learned about human psychology in the last century or so amounts to something that should be guarded against as much as physical assault, and I'm not so much weighing in one way or another but definitely looking at holding the door open for more discussion and analysis.

As far as the gambling, drugs, porn, excess shopping, and other bad habits go though, yes, any attempt to rein these in usually results in a treatment that is worse than the disease.
Nova Microhypervisor
I was in Costa Rica recently and a tour guide pulled a fruit about the size of my fist from a tree. He quizzed us on what the top of the fruit was. We could not identify it. We ended up feeding it to a cow.

It was a single cashew.

That experience changed my perception of supply chain, you can buy thousands of those for very low price. The fruit is huge and you get just one nut!
good. Twitter is garbage.
Different authors though. Perhaps in their jira you find....

1. As a customer I'd like to confirm my opinions about how stories are a waste of time.

2. As a customer I'd like to confirm my opinions about how stories are essential to the requirements discovery and design process.
TeX rendering (example from the parent of this thread) is highly non-linear though. Even a negligible difference in some computation can result in changes that cause an entire document to render completely differently. TeX layout is a global optimization problem, with a lot of big step functions in cost. If you want reproducible rendering in something like TeX, you need to use fixed point arithmetic.
Despite the name of your source, it seems to consider less than half of existing Mastodon servers. According to my own crawler, the up-to-date active user count is 540,258.
Because human nature favors inertia. Some may leave because they don't get pay raises, but most people hate change. So they stay. And the company gets higher profits by keeping payroll down. However, if every single person quit exactly at performance review time, every single employee, due to not keeping up with new hires or comparable pay to the industry, they would change. But they don't do this because all employees don't quit. It's a simple calculation. How many people will quit? if you have 100 tech people, getting paid $100,000/year each, that is 10,000,000 per year. Give them 25% raise and then the payroll goes up $2,500,000 per year, and you have to pay that the next year, too, and the next year, and the next year. Plus bonuses and all that. Payroll taxes go up, too. So a lot more expenses. Also, if you give people a 25% raise, what do you give them the following year and the one after that? There's all kinds of psychological things going on in the game. You give someone a 25% raise this year and a 1.5% raise next year, nobody is going to look at it as bringing them on par to others, they are going to look at being ripped off because they got 25% last year and only a measly 1.5% this year. "Why didn't I get at least 12%???"

But if there are low raises, and 2 people quit because they are not getting paid enough, then the company hires 2 more people to replace them, that's going to be $350K to hire two new hires.
Well, they can't possibly make it worse.
I'm working on it! In the meantime try the search feature, there are tons of pre-generated images to search through.

https://pornpen.ai/search
I was doing a phone interview with three software engineers and one of the founders (he was in charge of sales) was on the call. This was a second round interview and they had just begun asking me a couple of technical questions when the founder chimes in and says "Wow, I love it! You're hired!" The engineers tried to argue that they had just begun the interview, but the founder had already hung up so they just said, "Ok, well, see you on Monday I guess..."
Really? In my memory the cards last for 2 years. I've got one I got last year that will work until 2023. That seems like a fairly reasonable amount of time for a paper card to last for. I don't live there, but I regularly get 2-3 uses out of my $1 metro card before it expires.

If you're in from out of town, why are you leaving a ton of money on your card and/or not buying the $33 unlimited pass for 7 days that essentially pays for itself if you take a single trip each day? There's no minimum value you have to put on it either, so you can just put $5 on before every round trip or such and worst case you're out $2.50 if it expires before you use the return trip if you're trying to be that cautious.

I've got my issues with the MTA, but it seems far from an intentional grift.
True, you hardly ever see them show them investing in their family and education. It’s always crass/vulgar spending. Cars, vacations, consumerism.