skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, sometimes a company is just hiring for several potential roles at once with one listing.

The need for "more C# engineering skills on the team" might filled by a junior engineer for $X, a mid-career engineer for $1.5X, a senior engineer for $2X, or a rock star for $5x. (e.g. If you land a rock star, you might be able to focus on something else for your next hire.)

So, as a company, you put out a job posting for a C# engineer and say "the pay depends on how good you are." You don't want to lose the senior engineer by listing a pay range of $X and you don't want to miss the junior engineer by listing $2X. Not every hiring situation is as easy as "I need this exact cog for my machine and I'm willing to pay exactly X."

Not sure why a law is needed here. (I assume the intent is more to prevent discrimination than to un-frustrate tech job seekers, though I can't really see how it would do that.) I guess the easy solution for employers will be to either just list a very large range, or to post the same listing with several different comp bands. Either way they can still discriminate to their hearts' content during hiring.
It consistently amazes me how terrible Apple's documentation is. Not just incomplete, severely incomplete.
If a junior employee was to write up job descriptions for all of the roles on the org chart, what would the CTO's role and responsibilities be? They hired you to run the engineering department, so the CTO could focus on other work. What is that other work? Is that work enough to keep the CTO fully engaged? Is the CTO the right person for that role? The CEO has acknowledged there is a problem. If the CEO understands why the CTO is checked out, the CEO can engage you in the solution. It's their responsibility though.
Worship is way too far, but I feel like he will slowly be seen as less "crazy" as time goes on.

Unless something dramatic changes.
> Another study found US clinicians write 4x longer notes

I wasn't aware of this, but as the spouse of a medical provider I know that most US providers are burdened with an ever-present worry about malpractice.
That was a good write up, just shared it with people at work.

I agree that incumbents have had advantages of scale with training data, etc. As a satisfied user of their services, OpenAI’s and Hugging Face’s success is satisfying, but it will be interesting to see what their longevity as businesses compare with the current tech giants.
> Do people in ham meetups tend to be okay with people showing up who don't have a license/radio?

It's like showing up to a Mormon Christmas party to inquire about how to stop smoking! Or showing up but without owning a Book of Mormon! Absolutely yes they'll be okay with that & yw
I don't know, Brazil under 1st Lula term grew from increasing PRC commodities demand. Even anti-PRC Bolsonaro had to give away to pro-PRC trade industrial pressure. Reality is Brazil is one of the few geopolitical actors that can provide PRC with soy/beef/petro/iron currently provided by western bloc which PRC wants to reduce dependency on. That means more extraction from Brazil.
The interview process will determine if the candidate's skills are suitable for the position and if they are not, they don't get hired. If there is a more suitable position open, the company can offer to hire the candidate for the other position.
I’m gonna say go the old fashion way. Print out a sheet of paper with a date and time for a meet up. Host a meet up at a bar in a few Saturday’s in the future. Building community starts by being vulnerable and starting small. Even if you get one person to come hangout that’s a win.
Yes!!! Waterfall could solve this in many ways.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/saudis-kingdom-holding...

Here, official Saudi statement that they are maintaining their $2bn stake in the company because it is in the long term interests of the Kingdom. So, maybe just business partners, not finance partners, although that's $2bn of cash that Musk won't have to pay out. Anyway, the substance of the point remains intact - there are many plausible reasons the current owners of twitter could want to continue operating it that are not in the classic corporate raiding plan.
i've always been curious about fp, but, to my knowlege there aren't any implementations of it or closely related successors to play with-- or i suppose now there's one.
I personally think people get the movie Idiocracy wrong when they see it as a warning of what could happen. I personally take it as a story of how, if you took someone 100 years ago and moved them to today, they would feel very much like they were already in that world. The movie is just using even further exaggerations of what America has become today, in order to shine a light on what's already happened: we've become idiots in many ways. Idiocracy is already here, we already do a ton of useless crap for comfort and aesthetics, but we all just got used to it and don't see how fucked the country has become. We've already gotten to the point where adding classes pre-college about dis/misinformation would probably be considered indoctrination of some kind, so we kinda lost.
I just wanted to post this here because I think it's an interesting piece of trivia.
To offer a bit of counter-perspective, do keep in mind that while American SWEs do get paid more on the average, the costs of living in the US are also sky-high the areas where big software companies operate.

Yes, in the EU I get paid a lot less, but the cost of living in Europe is also not nearly as expensive (although we also do pay more taxes). That's not even accounting for job security or workers rights, I seem to just have more money left over each month on average than any Americans I know of in the same industry because the cost of living is just lower and I have less heavy unexpected expenses (healthcare being the big one of course, but when I hear what US SWEs need to pay just to stay housed and fed, it makes absolutely no sense in prices compared to the EU).

That's not a case of risk aversion, its a case of relative vs absolute pay. In relative pay, the EU pays their employees just straight up better. The US is only better in absolute pay, but that gets drained quickly due to the local economy scaling up to match.
I mean it is illegal to drive them on the sidewalk.
I started my first real job in 1995 after dropping out of grad school. I was paid about $40K (which seemed like SO MUCH MONEY) and worked at a tiny startup with one other full-timer and two part-timers writing Lisp on Macs for a NASA contract. We had an ISDN line for internet; I mostly remember using it for email/mailing lists and usenet (and reading macintouch.com). We had an AppleTalk LAN, and IIRC one developer workstation ran Apple's MPW Projector for source control, which Macintosh Common Lisp could integrate with.

Our office was in a Northwestern University business incubator building and our neighbors were a bunch of other tech startups. We'd get together once a month (or was it every week?) to have a drink and nerd out, talking about new technology while Akira played in the background.

It was awesome! I got to write extremely cool AI code and learn how to use cutting edge Mac OS APIs like QuickDraw 3D, Speech Recognition, and Speech Synthesis. Tech was very exciting, especially as the web took off. The company grew and changed I made great friends over the next 7 years.

(Almost 30 years later I still get to write extremely cool AI code, learn new cutting edge technologies, find tech very exciting, and work with great people.)
Both but I think the superhornets will still under warranty so they even had not military techs who would fix them.
Mostly:

* The compiler.

* The type system.

* The core library.
You made up a situation then criticized an entire group for a reaction you also made up

"If the husband of a republican senator was attacked the Biden administration wouldn't care. Now let me explain how bad they are because of it."
There is a reason but it would only harm particularly poorly written games and even then a single digit percentage.

To excercise that you need a lot of separate memory transfers. Tiny ones. Games tend to run bulky transfers instead of many megabytes.

Memory bandwidth and command pipe should not see an effect even with the minimally increased latency, on any HVM.
This is why I demand to see the goods up front. If you don't want to answer my questions, that's cool, but there's no reason to answer yours then.

I'm sure you are aware of this, but I never said anything about legality, or even talked about it. Looks like you're going with the classic scumbag fallback of "its not illegal" before I even suggested you did anything wrong. Kinda sad that your default position isn't that you're in the right, just that you aren't breaking the law.

I'll leave you to your day with this: it might be worth your time to consider activities that benefit the world rather than just plodding from one technically legal trollfarm to the next - most people find the rewards of being useful quite nice. Cheers and good luck!
>it risks becoming captured by the same interests as direct government censorship

It already is.

>At least 51 senior officials worked with Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple or Google.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericfan/2022/03/07/beltway-big-...
If you want to argue this then at least use the correct description of the proximal cause, "hits of glutamate in the shell of the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area". It doesn't roll off the tongue and focusing on the neurochemistry ignores the context. So maybe it's better to just say it simply, "If you enjoy doing an enjoyable thing and you do it a lot you'll anticipate liking it more than reality provides on average."
How did they conduct the measure? 7% is nowhere near what the real estate picture says.
>this provides productive evidence for a 4 day work week if everything still runs with folks checked out on Fridays and they’re not in the office performing work theater.

Not exactly. Unless 100% of workers are only working 4 day work weeks, it's impossible to account for the confounding variable of other workers picking up the slack when analyzing these trends from a macro view.
Last time I had a blood test it took 2 minutes to take my blood and 15 to enter crap in various forms on the computer. And I'm not even in the US. There was a lot of clicking involved.

To contrast, my first job was an accounting program. We spent weeks on making sure everything works via just the keyboard and some operations are as streamlined as possible. Because in some cases it was going to be used by people creating hundreds of invoices per day.
Classic business process mistake of trying to change a verbal contract into a form-letter.

"I'd like a quarter pounder with cheese and fries" is utterly unacceptable for buying a house or taking out a car loan, but it's the ideal way to order lunch. The people marketing, designing, and writing the application software have never worked in the business, of course, lack of experience has never made people like that pause, so they have peculiar ideas resulting in enforcement of weird and unproductive business processes.
More important is what you want done with it all, or at least what it all means.

My wife knows my password already (this is sensible redundancy). But she doesn't know what I use or do, or who I might like her to tell etc.

So by all means leave your password, but also leave a digital "will".
Imagine if this was Ellison, HN would be going bonkers. Now that it is musk, lot of comments saying it is fine and dandy.
http://localho.st
You could also say that they gave us Zstd and LZ4, but this is simply not true, they hired someone who made it.

There are plenty of brilliant coders, engineers and scientists at Meta, no question about it.
I've set up a Legacy Contact with my Apple ID, since that provides access to all of my data, with a close friend in the event of my death. It was fairly easy to set everything up and I just had to provide their email address and send them a document produced after the setup was complete.

It's definitely given me peace of mind, as I wouldn't want them to be in a situation where my entire digital life was lost to them. They would also then be able to close all of my accounts and notify others of my passing.
> These businesses should be paid by the landlord to occupy (and therefore maintain) the property for them.

While I do agree that property needs maintenance, why would a landlord pay somebody to occupy their property? What's the incentive to own the property at all then?
Critical Vulnerability in Open SSL
The CPU isn't particularly relevant is it (although the CPUs in the PS4/XBone generation were exceptionally terrible compared to what was standard on PCs at the time)? Graphical fidelity is going to depend much more on the GPU (although the CPU is going to bottleneck framerate if it's not powerful enough).

In the current generation the Series X has a more powerful GPU than the PS5, which tends to mean a lot of games run at higher resolutions on the system, although there's some games that run slightly better on PS5 (I think the Call of Duty games might be in that category?). And a lot (most?) are basically the same across both systems - probably because devs aren't bothering to tweak cross platform games separately for the two different consoles.
>It's been proved in court that AI does not infringe on copyright or licenses since it generates things from an understanding of the whole, instead of directly stealing, just like the human brain does.

Do you have a source for that?

This SF Conservancy article[0] says that's not true:

>Consider GitHub’s claim that “training ML systems on public data is fair use”. We have not found any case of note — at least in the USA — that truly contemplates that question.

The first major court case I know about is the class-action case Matthew Butterick is trying to build.[1]

[0] https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/03/github-copilot-co...

[1] https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/
How can you test a hypothetical situation?
I had a sales call with them recently to swap Oracle Linux out for RHEL.

I mentioned that I was using btrfs loopback mounts, and they confirmed that these are explicitly unsupported.

Even when running the UEK (i.e. for ksplice), this is not allowed, and they must be removed in a support event if they have any impact at all.
See my other comments, but measuring light does not prove anything. Light can be refracted in ways unknown to your model, which would bring distant objects closer, invalidate singularities (big bang, heat death). Another model turns those pictures into smudges on a lens instead of unfathomably distant objects, some of which also completely break your model!!

Staying WITHIN THE MODEL for all validation is precisely how you come these silly conclusion about the universe (big bang, heat death).
Not generally. There's no federal severance requirement. I think there might be a few states that require some kind of severance pay under some circumstances, but it's at least not common in the US.
Good example.

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The system distinguished between errors that halted the machine, requiring a restart, and errors which merely paused the machine (which allowed operators to continue with the same settings using a keypress). However, some errors which endangered the patient merely paused the machine, and the frequent occurrence of minor errors caused operators to become accustomed to habitually unpausing the machine.

One failure occurred when a particular sequence of keystrokes was entered on the VT-100 terminal which controlled the PDP-11 computer: if the operator were to press "X" to (erroneously) select 25 MeV photon mode, then use "cursor up" to edit the input to "E" to (correctly) select 25 MeV Electron mode, then "Enter", all within eight seconds of the first keypress, well within the capability of an experienced user of the machine. These edits weren't noticed as it would take 8 seconds for startup, so it would go with the default setup.[3]

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... which allowed the electron beam to be set for X-ray mode without the X-ray target being in place. A second fault allowed the electron beam to activate during field-light mode, during which no beam scanner was active or target was in place.

Previous models had hardware interlocks to prevent such faults, but the Therac-25 had removed them, depending instead on software checks for safety.

The high-current electron beam struck the patients with approximately 100 times the intended dose of radiation, and over a narrower area, delivering a potentially lethal dose of beta radiation. The feeling was described by patient Ray Cox as "an intense electric shock", causing him to scream and run out of the treatment room.[4] Several days later, radiation burns appeared, and the patients showed the symptoms of radiation poisoning; in three cases, the injured patients later died as a result of the overdose.[5]

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In response to incidents like those associated with Therac-25, the IEC 62304 standard was created, which introduces development life cycle standards for medical device software and specific guidance on using software of unknown pedigree.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
The true big brain 10x programmer is pushing -100 lines of code per sprint.
> As far as compact wiki-like shortcuts versus XML, the first often has more escaping issues or confusion.

It isn't an either-or, and never has been. XML has been created as an SGML subset, and SGML always had short references ie. custom tokens the parser is replacing by something else in a context-dependent way. For example, an asterisk can be replaced by an <em> start-element tag to start emphasized text, and, within emphasized text, asterisks can be replaced by </em> end-element tags.
Sounds like a Bayesian Network, which is precisely how I tend to think about it.

Though I think one aspect is missing, namely something describing the emotional loss that will be felt if a dogma has to be rejected.

In fact, the most destructive dogmas may be those where the older has serious subconscious doubt about the validity of the belief, but where their entire identiy may be shattered if they have to give it up.

Questioning such dogma tends to become very strong taboos or potentially heresies worthy of cancelling or even death.
Drunk driving is correctly banned, yes.

I think the significance of the fact that it was a politician's relative is that it suggests that this is part of a larger pattern. I think it would be similar if you had a politician calling for violence against an ethnic group that resulted in actual violence; that seems like a good reason for restrictions to me.
The IRS has over 74,000 employees and a budget of nearly $14B. What would be the appropriate level of funding and size of staff for this organization?
Pollution is well-defined and easy to detect.

"Information" and "misinformation" is not. The problem of "truth" is a philosophical one - how do you know that a particular claim is, indeed, true? Very few things in the world are directly provable. Even judges and juries get it wrong a lot, even when human lives - apparently the most valued things in society - are at stake.

Your model has a fatal flaw in its assumption that "the truth" is something obvious that we all agree upon. It's not - it's subjective and complicated.
Consider looking into Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme.

I am toying with starting an online service/company where users would elect a backup group where M of N people in the group can unlock the secrets. Use case would be secrets, passwords, Trusts, Instructions.

This issue confronted me when we put our living trust docs in our safe bit didn’t have a good way for our executor to get into the safe.

Would any of you use this service? Secure s3/Dropbox with SSSS access. Secure online safety deposit box with multiparty encryption.
See for example: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs

They evade ad-blocking easily by using custom domains or by distributing the script using popular sites like Github, NPM, etc; This makes extensions like NoScript necessary.
Oh right, because people don’t get assaulted in places where free speech doesn’t exist. It’s totally the free speech that is causing the violence and not anything specific to any circumstance of violence or some other general state. /s
astonishingly enough every sentence in this post is untrue. There's been no court case on any of the models in question here. They don't work like human brains, nor understand anything they output. Even if they did of course that output would still be subject to licenses, given that human code is subject to them, which is why those licenses exist in the first place.

If you ever plan to steal someone's code and justify it with "my brain is able to learn, therefore copyright doesn't exist" I warn you right now this will not fly.
Well, it pointed back to http://news.ycombinator.com!

Didn't expect that!
I have not heard of any other developers needing to furnish references either. Just ask on HN or Reddit or Twitter, most devs will say they're not needed.
> notably healthcare researchers use this data to improve patient care, develop new medicines, and to precisely identify which medicines are likely to help on a particular patient (and which medicines may even harm them!)

The majority of the notes being written by doctors now is boilerplate. A lot of it is copy-pasted. It's written because of insurance companies (which have incentive to deny claims), because of liability (which gives incentive to leave a lot of notes behind to make it looks like you thought about everything under the sun even if it wasn't applicable), and because of well-meaning but ultimately overly broad laws adding additional requirements even when they don't quite make sense.

I'm sure there is a treasure-trove of valuable data in there, especially compared to when it was all hidden away on physical paper. But you could probably reduce the paperwork that doctors do these days by a factor of 4 and not loose anything of value.
If you don't have those questions at least mostly answered, you're not ready to go shopping. You don't show up at Target looking to buy a bespoke dress shirt, unless you want to be very disappointed and/or waste a lot of time.
Flexport (YC W14) Is Hiring Software Engineers
True. But pauses due to a GC also counts as thinking about memory...

Depends on your situation what you can or cannot do/afford.
That’s not how PoS works.
>The truth is that all semiconductor vendors are heading for a future where they're selling an undifferentiated commodity product.

This is what I'm hoping for as well. But there are huge upfront costs (>20b). This will limit the number of potential players.
For those who don't know: Nitter is an alternative self-hosted Twitter client.

One public instance: https://nitter.kavin.rocks/

Github repository: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Salaries were good but nothing out of line with other entry-level white-collar professionals. So that part is much better today.

Everything else I'll say was better 30 years ago. Despite the lower salaries, programming was a much more respected profession. Today programmers are only seen as unthinking cogs in an agile sprint, where PMs run the show.

Quality was much higher, mostly as a byproduct of engineering being driven by engineering, not PMs. You got to own all the technical and most product direction decisions. Only occasionally someone from sales would come in and say Big Customer wants such feature, let's do it.

Work-life balance was generally much better since you planned for the long haul, releases maybe yearly instead of permanent sprinting without a long term plan as today with agile.
Parag Agrawal, as CEO, was also a member of the board. (This is pretty common practice, among both private and public companies.)
I am seeing all this blah blah blah about how everything pins down to insurance.

But if medical pricing was such that insurance wasn't required, then patients would better audit their own care receipts and this fraud issue would eliminate itself, and as a side benefit we'd have sane pricing for medical care.