skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my personal observations, Google indeed hires a lot of generalists.

Source: been an SWE in a hardware org for the past year there, and my team is a mix of about 1-2 people with plenty of previous hardware experience and focus, with the rest being generalists without much previous related experience (including me) who can pick things up and resolve them quickly, whatever they are. Observed quite a similar pattern on other teams in the org as well, with the only exception (to a degree) being a few research teams filled with PhDs.
>First, the Internet has made distribution (of digital goods) free,

counterpoint: huh?

As just one obvious example streaming is not free, but I'm not sure if it is actually less expensive either. There is probably a point at which there are enough instances streaming of a popular Netflix offering that it would be cheaper to broadcast it.
What does it have to do with app store? Insecure apps which might not respect server TLS certificates / settings or communicate over plain HTTP will be insecure to use over a VPN as well. A VPN is not an alternative to not using proper TLS validation.
I think this gets it exactly right. I’ve taken the deck on trips where I have room in the suitcase, but I wouldn’t take it on my daily commute. But most of all, I’m just with it on the couch. Even though there is also a nice big tv right in front of it, the instant on / instant suspend makes it great for 5-10 minute chunks.
Headlines like this are grown by comments like this, it ticks KPI boxes that drive journalist pay. Your (our) attention is currently creating new years bonuses financed through ad revenue KPIs.
Also, the capex of gas delivery. Not needing infra to deliver gas to each and every house would likely be a pretty big win.
Portrait Génétique
I think this is backwards, the early Crays and maybe other machines used essentially serial + aggressively pipelined CPUs while modern CPUs do actually execute operations in parallel via multiple ALUs but are from a programmer point of view kind of similar (fixed size vector).
Show HN: I made a privacy-respecting mood tracker for Android
ESL speaker here, "pa" like in "parking"
> If you're indicating causation without any sensible proof, citation, or well-reasoned hypothesis, and just give a "scary" slideshow with "yeah, that might be climate change... or it might not, idk", then that will help people who are trying to show that "climate-change reporting is a bunch of BS" support their narrative.

If you're determined to imagine that even stuff like literal temperature changes aren't sensible proof of climate change, that hypotheses linking the weather in Norway to the weather in the rest of the world or
temperature changes to changes in flora and fauna need to be thoroughly explained to be plausible, and don't trust that quoted academics have actually done the research unless the journalists hyperlink their original papers, then yeah, maybe the acknowledgement that climate isn't the only factor affecting flora and fauna in Norway (no shit!) is the clincher that it's all a big con.

But then, if you're determined to imagine that entire fields of scientific research and thousands of actual published scientific papers must all be irredeemably flawed because a pop science article which doesn't pretend to be anything other than a list of things observed in Norway takes a less rigorous approach, I'm not sure improving the article is going to change matters. It's not like news articles opposing the theory of anthropogenic causes for climate change or global warming in general are renowned for reading like academic studies...
Serotonin Deficiency Directly Linked with Depression in Groundbreaking Study
The paper you shared is WAY more interesting than the original post.

Maybe this is a naive criticism but if the goal of the model is to "emulate the correct reasoning function" by which is implied that it learns prepositional logic rules then shouldn't the model have some architecture that tries to model generic logic rules and then using that score the input data and predict the result?

Currently it seems like the model is simply scoring each predicate since each of it's reasoning layers performs one step of forward chaining, adding some predicates to the Proved Facts.

My naive (and way undercooked) way of conducting this experiment would have been to try to use a GAN where the generator model comes up with new predicates and then the discriminator model that tries to classify them as real/fake. I would then try to train an MLP on top of the generator to classify the result and swap out the MLP depending on the sampling method basically the generator model becomes the pre-trained thing we care about to see if it can generalize.

Another nitpick is that the authors claim that BERT has enough "capacity" to solve SimpleLogic BUT this isn't actually what they want to achieve since solving != learning reasoning. So it feels like a bait and switch since IMO if a model has the capacity for something then it has some architectural aspect to it that can be used to show that it can achieve a smaller version of what you want and they didn't prove BERT can learn ANY prepositional logic rule.
My Senville mini split claims to work at temps down to -22F. During this recent winter storm, temps got down to about -10 where I am, and it managed to keep my garage around 50F. Nowhere near comfortable, but pretty damn impressive to be able to keep my relatively poorly insulated garage 60 degrees above the weather.

I was quite happy that this storm occurred while I was in Christmas PTO, since my garage is my office. I could have made it workable with a supplemental space heater but it was nice not to have to!
Ask HN: Risk of unsafe software in automobiles?
I may buy a car (new or used) soon and am a little worried about all the software in cars these days. Software can control pretty much every aspect of a modern vehicle, and so the idea of bugs in a vehicle's software scares me from a safety perspective. Poor software engineering has been implicated in automobile safety incidents in the past[1].

I'm aware of the NASA/JPL rules for developing safety-critical software[2] but I'm not sure if any car manufacturers follow anything similar.

Does anyone here have any knowledge of the software development practices of any automakers and what they do to ensure safety and reliability? And is there anything else I can do to mitigate this risk (short of buying a very old car, which would have other safety downsides)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration
[2] http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf
That was my takeaway. Reading it feels like it describes me perfectly, which is often a dead giveaway for something being horoscope-like IME. I think it mostly describes the sort of people you find at early stage startups. Which isn’t everyone, for sure. I’ve often been described as a “fixer” - you get something working, you build an MVP, etc. then you move onto something else. I’d say that’s at least 1/3 of engineers at a standard startup. But, that’s just my experience!
I briefly lived in Prague, and coming from the US, the difference was incredible. Almost anywhere I wanted to go was either within walking distance of my flat, or within walking distance of a metro stop. You could go anywhere in the city on a one or two dollar ticket. Absolutely beautiful.

The best part was the corner grocery on every block. You could just stop in on your way home because the grocery was in the same physical building as your flat.
Modern heat pumps can be up to 500% efficient (using 1kWh of energy gives 5 kWh of heat) at optimal temperature.
My first hand observation is that many companies are still hiring. But it's much harder to get reqs for positions and the hiring is much more selective.
> Very few of us are going to bat 1.000 during our careers, especially with the industry reshaping itself under our feet.

This feels like it may be an iceberg. Could you expand more on what "reshaping" you're seeing? Are you referring to the mass layoffs specifically or is there some broader context to this comment?
Let's make sure we add "gunshot detection" to this list, since that is the currently popular for-profit junk science product that police are pouring millions of dollars into acquiring all over the US.
Also, if you don’t ruin someone’s life based on a false conviction, the impact of the inevitable junk science is reduced.
Children of Time is a great scifi novel. I like scifi but sometimes Im annoyed by great world buildings that are poorly explored or with a lousy story, CoT was a pager turner since day one and I couldn’t recommend it more. No details for no spoilers
If you've got wood available, you could also have a wood furnace as backup, and / or an actual fireplace (an efficient one ideally, possibly a masonry heater if you have the space and foundations to handle that load).
Doubt it. TV commercials encourage you to relate to or see yourself as the person in the commercial. The advertisers want to invoke a positive feeling and identification in hopes you’ll buy the product. The message is “you can have this life too”.

Social media is just pure individualistic ego-stroking by comparison. The message is “my life is better than yours”.
I've been going though my older games to figure out which work, especially if they're well suited to controller-based play, and reporting them in the forums. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Turns out there are a _lot_ of games like that, and it's good to see them being promoted on "Great on Deck" when they get through validation, or even seeing the yellow (!) beside them.
I'm guessing #7 contributed to the fact that it took the author 1 year to find another job. If you're desperate, you can most likely find an _okay_ job in 3 months. If you don't have the luxury to wait for a "good" job, finding a job tends to happen faster.
> What I haven't been able to find an answer to is that everybody says heat pumps need low delta T of 5-10 degree F (implying high flow rate for given heat transfer)

I don’t see why this would matter at all. Maybe the heat exchanger would need to be sized differently for a different flow rate, but in general a lower entering water temperature on the hot side seems preferable.
I never said anything about the type of apps, and the issues had little or nothing to do with dependency obsolescence.
What are some larger "uneconomic" things in the US?
Agree with this article 100%
Poor choice of words on my part - I should’ve said that the main value of the refactoring as presented in the article, as I see it, is extracting an “entity” as often captured in the CTE, or in other times - in a subquery.

Extracting and templating other structural components of the query in the list you provided - I personally interpret as needless complexity that is likely to make things harder rather that easier, especially considering that there’s no database-native alternative mechanism that I can point to, and I already explained that I consider text templating an anti-pattern (though perhaps it does have value in those instances where the database engine is not as full featured as postgres - sqlite as an example).
honestly, I think you’re right.
one of the things I failed to mention was that one of the reasons I learned vi is that it was the only editor available across all unix and unix-likes. I think it was even mandated by POSIX.
Often these days fresh installs come with nano and not vi, which means that we are tailoring fresh minimal installs to non-power users at the cost of power users. Which is probably what I’m upset about.
I like that nano is available and easy to get; i think it should be in the default installation for anything larger than a pxe image or minimal install, but I am not a fan of this kind of behaviour change.
Does any addiction make already depressed people less depressed?
> That statement applies equally to any web-based framework, any native framework, Java, appkit, UWP, Silverlight…

Except for the part where Apple doesn't hype and then quickly abandon developer APIs the way some other companies do. AppKit, for instance, has been continually iterated on for three decades now.

Since Apple has been very clear that SwiftUI is "where the puck is going", I doubt it will be abandoned as quickly as Google or Microsoft's "future of platform development strategy" of the month.
Hey everyone, author here.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I decided to spend Christmas break in CDMX[0] by myself in order to reflect not only on the past year, but just how far I've come since I got laid off. This is the result.

Thanks for making all those hours at the café (instead of at a museum or bar or whatever) worthwhile.

[0] I'll be here for a few more days if you'd like to meet up!
> You will have to interview for jobs where you will use a language you despise. Maybe even Java. Definitely Javascript.

No.

Or rather, maybe?

I have been fortunate enough that in a couple decades in this industry, including two major downturns, I've never been in a position that I /must/ find a job on a particular timeline to pay the bills. While my life situation helps with this, I do recognize that luck is a major part of it.

As a result, this line in particular fails to resonate with me. If I take a job doing something that makes me miserable, I will be miserable. Maybe I can put up with it for six months, but what's the point? During those six months, between working full time and being miserable, I will not be effective at looking for a long-term role I enjoy. Better to take a personal bridge loan and keep looking for something that works for me.

We're software engineers. If, like me, having someone pay you to build cool shit is about as good as it gets -- hold out for that, don't settle for doing what you "despise" instead.
That's an issue even with gas furnaces here in the US, as they won't run without electricity.
> Again, why should the west not have children, while the rest can have 5? Shouldn't we focus our efforts on those 5 per couple, instead of 1.5 or watever the average for eg EU is?

I did not express that only we should do it. I simply said that having fewer children, especially in western world, is a very obvious way to reduce carbon footprint.

> But didn't you just say that we shouldn't have children in the west, because children pollute?

That's not what I said. I said that it is pretty selfish, both towards other people, _and_ towards the children themselves but people seem to have glossed over the latter.

Just because I find it selfish doesn't mean that we should be doing what I propose. If it was up to me, we'd be heading for a voluntary human extinction, but for better or worse, we are not. I simply pointed out that claiming that young people are stupid and fall into traps is not the reason they don't have children.
Note the word 'usually.'

But also I've traveled for a month (us to India) from my backpack. One week of clothes, a laptop, some cables, notebook and pens, perhaps a couple more books, a few toiletries. And still some room for one 'fun' thing, like a small synthesizer to jam on.

It's a bit like ultralight backpacking; you can cut down quite a lot one you get in the mindset. I definitely don't claim it works for everyone... But probably most people can travel rather lighter than they normally do.

Fwiw, my travel backpack is pretty similar to this one. Definitely a bit bigger than the standard backpack, much smaller than a hiking backpack, and rather smaller than a roller bag.

https://www.chromeindustries.com/product/hondo-backpack/BG-2...
There are smaller C compilers than clang.
Oh I wasn't looking, this just came of sorts, I already have a job and am quite happy with it, as mentioned it is already in my city and it allows me to be with my parents and stuff and also let's me do freelancing work.

The new offer is a lot more money (which isn't an issue as of now) so was considering, but I get your point, to relocate is sort of a stressful task and mentally exhausting.
They may be able to handle a natural disaster. But even WH couldn’t handle staying open 24 hours because of the labor shortage
Suicide is not legal in many places, though it is correct that this is rarely enforced in any meaningful way. There are cases, however, where family members have been prosecuted for assisting terminally ill people in committing suicide. Technically, in many legislation, you have a duty to assist someone whose life is in danger, and neglecting this duty is a crime.

What you brush off as "official approval" can be the difference between a person's family members getting to say goodbye to their loved one before they die peacefully on their own terms, or them getting home one day to find their brains scattered all over the garage. It's about whether you get to make this painfully difficult decision about your life on the open, with the support of those around you, or whether you are forced to hide it from them, out of shame or to avoid legal repercussions. It's about whether your loved ones are able remember you as you were in life, or as the trauma, guilt and shame that followed your death. It matters a lot.

Life is worth living, yes. On the abstract, and on a personal level, I wholeheartedly agree. But I do not get to impart that judgement on other people's concrete lived experiences, to decide that their life is worth living on their behalf. Just like I alone decide whether mine is.
Bitwarden seems to be a like for like replacement so far. Export/Import straightforward. Intuitive to use.
If you have to be an employee- nobody is forcing you to make the job your whole life.

Whether you are at risk of getting laid off or not - not having friends outside work is a bad idea.
Maybe just as important, whether or not there is a centralized mechanism for dealing with it, utilities already have exactly the same load problem with AC in the summer and have more or less figured out how to deal with that. It may be different in places where AC is less widespread, but in most of the US I wouldn't expect heat pump load issues to be much of a problem in the winter.
I guess the meaning of portable gaming is ambiguous. I took it to mean "wireless gaming" and it succeeds by that definition.

I rarely use the Deck but my girlfriend loves it. She prefers the handheld form factor for couch gaming. I just prefer my office chair to any other seat in my house which makes PC gaming more appealing.
> it just means that the most widely used way of editing text should be the default.

Yeah, maybe. Not entirely convinced though :-). There is a tendency to reinforce the most widely used ways everywhere. As an artist, you can choose to make the kind of music most people want to hear in a night club, or make the kind of music you, as a musician, like. And accept that maybe that's not for the majority.

The majority is using Windows/macOS/Android/iOS. Linux distros are mostly used for servers (where I would hope that a sysadmin can learn a handful of vim bindings (ESC, "i", ":wq" is enough to start)), and some people (me included) are using a Linux Desktop.

Of course, the more popular Linux Desktop gets, the more people will want it to look like Windows/iOS (because those are by far the most popular). Does that mean all Linux Desktop distros should try to get adopted by those people? I don't think so. Fine if Ubuntu wants to make a "FOSS alternative to macOS", but I would find it sad if it did force others to follow. And it does: most devs don't really know Linux and want the macOS experience, end up using Ubuntu, and write code that works only on Ubuntu. So now many apps rely on e.g. systemd just because Ubuntu chose it. I find it a bit sad.
Why can't they just get their existing system fixed?
Wow who else has PTSD from M4 use for sendmail configuration way back when?
More like rain of sulphur bugs. But hopefully not.
Copywriting 2.0: How GPT-3 Is Transforming the Art of Persuasion
Hey everyone,

I wrote an article discussing the impact of GPT-3 on copywriting and how it can lead to an evolution towards copywriting 2.0.

Do you use generative AI tools for these kinds of tasks? If so, tell me more in the comments!
Havent gotten any yet but i can see it being useful for all kinds of spam.
I agree. My point is not that the current system needs to be reinforced, but that it needs to be improved, and we should be willing to eat the cost to do it, because if we let the current system stand, it will fall apart, and if it falls apart, game over, because almost everything decent in modern life depends on well educated citizens.
Bored - not lost.
Try mentoring as you now have many skills that people would love to absorb!.
It doesn't have to be any characteristic of facebook itself which I think a lot of the comments here are missing. A depressed person addicted to anything will become more depressed.

Having spent a lot of time in addiction recovery spaces, addiction and depression have astoundingly high comorbidity, to the point where much of the time it's hard to tell where one begins and the other ends, which came first in a given person.

There probably are specifics of a social media addiction that are relevant to how it affects users in depression. But that's true of all addiction as well, they all have relevant specifics.

Facebook is the longest-running of our major social networks and the first one where most people really understood that something had fundamentally changed about the world because of it, so it is the most studied. And studies take time, so we have a larger body of research on it specifically. I can almost guarantee that similar findings will obtain about other social media platforms, regardless of their individual dynamics or character.
I'm glad you describe it as a positive! It's still at the top of my list.

The Switch fits flat down in my backpack. The Steamdeck would probably not fit in the same way. I haven't had a chance to handle one though. But personally I find the Switch already borderline annoying to take.

Typing this whilst waiting for a flight with a fully packed bag for what it's worth. On its own it would be fine, but once you add a drink bottle, toiletries, a laptop and chargers it adds up.
Perhaps that's why I've never made serious money, I don't like oat milk.
I think SWE is a very young field. Just 50 years ago GOTO was commonplace (apparently?). In any case I think the future hold some interesting prospects, with copilot and gpt and all.
I live in a pretty standard suburban subdivision in the US. All the houses are 25 years old. I have about 60 coworkers in very similar situations. I think everyone of us has natural gas that was installed when the original company built all the homes in the subdivision over the course of a year. Stuff gets a lot cheaper when everything is put into the ground at the same time. My monthly gas connection fee is $10 so that in the summer my bill is around $19 which is $9 for the water heater and $10 for the connection fee.
No one cares. Autocorrect does its thing, sometimes for good, sometimes not.
A large language model for electronic health records
It is kinda a concern with heat pump rollouts in Europe: now that people that didn’t have air conditioning before will have it and will adopt it.

Having said that, too much of my EU family still thinks air conditioning makes you sick… and a lot of the latest germ theory (aerosol transmission or respiratory viruses) is confirming they might be right. Ugh. At least the rental cars usually have AC nowadays.