skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But money is still cheap, at least in the US. The US inflation rate was 6.5% at the end of 2022, and the interest rate was 4.5%. It's just not as cheap.
Aside from technologies and all the other great advice in this thread, become a product focused engineer. Learn the product domain well and understand how your work impacts the business.
Assault weapon bans, for example. They do absolutely nothing to reduce gun violence, and they only serve to annoy law abiding gun owners and enthusiasts. Laws focusing on handguns would have made some sense, as most crime is indeed committed with handguns, but the suggestion that banning pistol grips in rifles does anything other than annoy and spite people is preposterous.
YC 2043: Aging as a service. AaaS.
> http: a bunch of newline separated key=value pairs followed by a double newline everything else is the content.

This is a webdev's idea of what HTTP is
So they are upgrading Microsoft Office from 2003 to 2007?
gemini like http is decentralized
My parent's computers.

In the ancient times known as "the 90s" you could find PC technicians who would run anti-malware, dig into the register, and overall tune your computer while leaving everything more-or-less as it was.

Those technicians are long gone, replaced by people who make easy money by wiping your computer clean and putting your old files in a folder called "Backup".

I'd gladly pay someone to do it right, but I just can't find anyone. So whenever I visit my parents I know there will be a parade of slow devices waiting for me to tune them.
Nice thanks! Time to check out Nebula/DN.
A tool to carve out a space without the social problem. There are phenomena on the web that can just never happen on Gemini, for better or for worse. (E.g. autoloading images) And that will keep the size of the social gathering permanently down and avoid Eternal September.
> ...with some notifications happening today.

I guess there are complexities with huge multinational companies, but that seems kind of designed to make people like your team worry.
How can you actually signal you want to be laid off? Is that something you say when the news goes out? Loads of "NoFuture" cooperate punk in the FAMG. Monopoly does not make the work interesting.
Googlewhack[0] might be a close one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack
Aside from licensing, usability studies show that serif fonts are more legible than sans serif fonts, so I have no idea where they came up with the idea that somehow they're harder to read for people with disabilities when all prior research I'm aware of has shown the opposite.
My $0.02 is legal weed. Most of the states that have the bulk of the population have recreational or medicinal marijuana.

Booze is nice, but when they legalized it here I mostly gave up drinking in lieu of edibles. No hangover, no throat-burn, similar cost.
They did? Oh JFC I just switched from 1Password to avoid using a VC backed service. At least there's always Vaultwarden, now all I need is a service I can pay to host an instance for me. ...and to not take VC funding.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Though I fear it’s only a matter of time before the VC gods demand the client apps remove compatibility and they have to be forked too.
> Is non-ionizing radiation hazardous?

At LTE and WiFi frequency bands, it can be used to spread a great deal of misinformation.
… one of the many reasons that led to Firefox's rise.
There’s a few very expensive purely mechanical no-date watches, but I haven’t been able to find an affordable one.
Folks are also pinning to the top of the range:

> The data labelers employed by Sama on behalf of OpenAI were paid a take-home wage of between around $1.32 and $2 per hour depending on seniority and performance.
TikTok has offices all over the world and competes for SDEs in the traditional places like Seattle and San Francisco: https://careers.tiktok.com/position?keywords=&category=67098...

Any FAANG engineer or someone who looks at job postings in those areas would know this. The comments I see about TikTok on Hacker News in general are so much more low effort, low knowledge/low research than other areas it is genuinely concerning to me. There's so many blanket assumptions that go unresearched, unchallenged. It's bizarre.
What majority of Asian countries? South Korea and Japan, both nations similarly connected to the U.S. as Taiwan is? India, which has no love for China and is a Quad member? Vietnam, which is in the Quad Plus?
But the arts are being automated too lol
Iteresting mix of manual and automated. Some things look like they haven't changed at all the last 50-100 years and others are highly automated. I always thought that automation is not a continuous process because you can't easily mix humans and robots and therefore have to design the whole process around the robots. Am I wrong an automation is actually a continuous process where task after task get's more automated? Do they have a yearly budget they can invest in automation?
If it's purely ceramic and not painted, plop it in the freezer for a little bit then all the old wax comes out as a puck; no cleaning needed
It cannot be legally considered "inspiration":
"1. the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative."

Stable Diffusion does not have a mental process.
Would be cool if it got up to 100% one day
Not really? In a world with no minimum wage, working for sub-living wage is better than zero. That’s still beneficial compared to the alternative. So the analogous thing here, which I think is true, is that if you think it’s crazy people are accepting a job for $2, you ought to start looking for solutions amongst the jobs paying $1.99 and below.

That’s what minimum wage does. It eliminates the alternatives below the line, not above it.
One of our employees is blind, and screen readers (JAWS is what he uses) can be fairly finicky. For a case where you are looking at or editing the document in MS Word it doesn't matter, since if the text is readily accessible it will ignore the font. However, in something like a pdf or image it needs to OCR the text, and certain fonts are easier to read.

I happen to know this because we ended up needing to rework our training documentation, which we supply as pdfs that were exported from Word. The screen reader needs to figure out the order of the text in the pdf, and by default word can end up exporting the text laid out in a way that causes the screen reader to parse the text out of order. There are accessibility options that can resolve this, but we ended up changing the font since that resolved the problem without needing to ensure the correct options were set everytime someone needs to update the training manuals.
Sure. So long as everyone understands you're doing the Boss a solid.
For a greenfield project, sure, why not. I was thinking about existing stuff, like the gas station pumps with dodgy touch screens I worked on once upon a time. A bunch of stuff already written and moving to Balena would not exactly have been cheap.

But if there was a ReactOS BSP or SDK of sorts, or even a HOWTO for embedded ReactOS, it could make sense to take the plunge.
Honestly I feel like it was Google's reputation that largely killed it.

Every time this came up the question would be, what happens when it shuts down since you had to buy games specifically for it.

That was also a problem for it, it didn't work with your existing library on steam or piggy back on something like Xbox Game Pass. They were trying to enter a market that already has many engrained players.
Honestly interested to see how these go. I haven't found a home speaker system that I like yet. I don't care too much about the voice assist features as my home is not so connected. Too bad they're like 20% more expensive here in Europe...
Yup, and then rootkits happened. Better safe than sorry.
"Getty doesn't own anything."

Is this supposed to be a factual statement? Getty owns the rights to its photo library. How is that even in question?
Why is a mostly-incorrect* analysis of candles on the frontpage? Just because Carmack is saying it?

*: Wattage might be the same, but the effect on air quality is different. Humans don't exhale carbon monoxide and smoke.
Additional interesting info, not available in the published studies:

> “Delivery is a technical hurdle, but other groups seem to have done well,” Sinclair said, pointing to two unpublished studies that appear to have overcome the problem. “One uses the same system we developed to treat very old mice, the equivalent of an 80-year-old human. And they still got the mice to live longer, which is remarkable. So they’ve kind of beaten us to the punch in that experiment,” he said. “But that says to me the rejuvenation is not just affecting a few organs, it’s able to rejuvenate the whole mouse because they’re living longer,” he added. “The results are a gift and confirmation of what our paper is saying.”

> In his lab, Sinclair said his team has reset the cells in mice multiple times, showing that aging can be reversed more than once, and he is currently testing the genetic reset in primates.
Ah I think the loading error might be due to many people loading the site at the same time. The site should work now!

Newsletter coming, and will definitely add filtering by tags/topics + search!

Comments sounds like a good idea as well!
If I'm following Apple's audio strategy correctly, I'm supposed to buy AirPods because I don't care about sound quality but the convenience is worth it, and I'm supposed to buy a HomePod because I really care about sound quality even though the ecosystem is inconvenient.
I'd still say very much yes, "car makers" are all humans even if the physical construction of the car is almost entirely done by machines - you still have people making and maintaining the machines so that becomes the action of making a car
> Is it better to get any job than keep searching for the job I'd be most suited for?

In general I'd say no although I'm not sure it applies to you. I know some people who graduated into the Internet apocalypse of 2002. They picked up crappy jobs and then got pigeon-holed into that crappy job for a very long time. It's a lot easier to get a job in a cool field as a new grad than it is as someone with experience doing manual testing or another crappy field.

Normally I'd recommend someone in your position to go for their Master's or Ph.D rather than getting a crappy job, but you already have your PhD so I'm not sure how much of my advice applies to you. PhD signals a deep specialization which may overcome the stigma of a crappy job.
How committed to having a PayPal account are you? If it doesn't provide $180 worth of value to you, do a chargeback on wherever they pulled from, and be prepared for PayPal to close your account, and also for them to try to pull from any other accounts you previously authorized (you might try unlinking those, and/or letting them know beforehand that you no longer authorize PayPal to make transactions)
Is that where the bar for stamping a label on a fellow human being is? On the text formatting of one paragraph? That's a pretty low bar, I'm not sure Hermes Conrad himself could limbo under it.
Those are all roughly true numbers but you forgot charge efficiency: energy extracted out of battery / energy input into battery. That's also around 90% (assuming higher voltage charging, not 120v AC which would be closer to 60%). That would put total efficiency of battery electric closer to 80%.
I'm guessing it's because those were the shapes that were delivered for the Latin characters in one of the earliest CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) fonts, the MingLiU:
https://www.pickafont.com/fonts/MingLiU.html

I guess us westerners see it a lot because it was much simpler for the manufacturers to just use 1 font file for all the different locales of the gadgets (either the cheapo MP3-player, or the label printer).

It was even there on Windows 3.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CJK_fonts
Or both win :)

Welcome to the world of parallel realities which is beyond the scope of this thread.
This is such a weird HN-style take. I would bet money the start of this selection was "give me a list of the fonts on all our computers right now" and then they picked one. Probably Calibri after seeing it as the default in some other application.

Nobody at the State Department is diving into the intricacies of font licensure.
The C++ implementation is the reference implementation which is by far the most complete, and is the only one I maintain personally. The other implementations have varying levels of completion and quality, ranging from "pretty solid" (Rust, Go) to "someone's weekend project one time in 2015". I suppose number of dependencies would depend entirely on the particular implementation.
> At that price point is it still exploitive?

My belief: When you have a legitimate choice of your place of employment, and all of the opportunities will let you live your definition of a comfortable life, that's when it's no longer exploitative.

So many times - especially for poor folks - there is no meaningful choice. "I do this or I don't have a place to live." "I hold two jobs so I can feed my child."
Social features can unlock user engagement and retention
Yup only abstracts for now, but I think it should be possible to parse the paper PDF to extract just the approach + experiment results w/ GPT-3 (despite 4k token limit). Will add this soon.
So for sub-pixel accurate font rasterization in Rust there are [1], [2], [3] and now the one from Typist, [4]. Possibly there are more (I know Raph Linus stopped maintaining [5] so that one is out).

All of these crates are actively maintained. Are people re-inventing the wheel?

[1] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/rusttype

[2] https://github.com/alexheretic/ab-glyph

[3] https://github.com/mooman219/fontdue

[4] https://github.com/typst/pixglyph

[5] https://github.com/raphlinus/font-rs
Nicely done. Prolog is killer for database programming/querying and parsing/formatting. Since these are not exactly "niche" tasks, its kinda sad that prolog isn't more popular.
Friend of mine says he used to use Windows 2k, but with cmd.exe as the shell and launch module his module tracker from there.
I already replied to this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34427780

> I only assume that one Kenyan is more representative than one westerner. I'd happily invite other Kenyans to comment their own perspective!
What I would like to see is how ChatGPT's responses to questions differs across the world. Ask it questions about homosexuality in Canada, Nigeria, Russia, Korea, China, and Saudi Arabia. Ask the same countries questions about Democracy. Will the responses be different? I guarantee it would. This should bring clarity on how we should approach ChatGPT. It is simply making claims within the overtone window of the society's training material.
As long as you build unwinding tables for each function (which I'm pretty sure gcc has an option for), there is no need for a frame pointer unless the function uses alloca or stack VLAs.
Imagine if people didn't want to return to the office because they were getting drunk first thing in the morning. I doubt we'd consider that acceptable.
I think google could of made it work, but it would take 10 years with no shenanigans to get people to trust it.

Look at me, I hated the idea of a service like steam with a passion, hell it makes me nervous thinking of all my games, only playable at the whim of valve, but here I am, I buy all my games on steam now. Mainly because I trust them, it took about ten years before I bought my first game, but valve did not mess up, they kept to a simple straightforward honest service, and they have proven themselves an honest partner in my game purchases since. still sort of hate it, but it is so convenient.

But google does not think like that, they think that if something is not an instant success you throw it out and start over, no concept of growing a service. Also, google would have a hard time running an honest service, they are an advertising company.
The issue is with OCR. Imagine something that was printed(for being physically signed or filed into a cabinet, for example) and rescanned into an image or PDF.
Both printing and scanning is lossy with lots of noise and artifacts.
The article is saying that serif fonts are harder to OCR.

For example, something like this https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6945...
MS c-suite makes a total of roughly ~$135,244,086, the board of directors make a total of about $4m (gates takes no salary at all, btw).

This 10k layoff, at an average salary of 190,302, is about $2b a year. So yeah not quite - but for them to suffer no consequences is still pretty gross.
I like where passwordless.dev is going. However, I don't think I'd like to build a business on top of that. Is there a similar implementation that's open-source that doesn't depend on a third party?
Don't use company resources for personal use.
Lots of companies do take no profit and pay out entirely to their employees, and there are some famous examples of that.
Just like there are bad engineers, the medical community has bad doctors. Perhaps "bad" is too strong a term. It might be more accurate to refer to them as "low information" or "not up to date" or "low skill" professionals.

On the engineering front, it takes work to stay up to date on the latest technologies. I have been in the field for 40 years, I know lots of people with the same time in the domain who can barely deal with a modern computer, much less design with modern FPGA's, processors and write software in a range of modern languages. People do stagnate. That's just reality.

The same is the case with doctors, or almost any profession. One plumber might be up to date with the latest advances and have great diagnostics skills while the other hits everything with a hammer.

Which hints at the other reality. I have worked with dozens of young engineers just out of school. It is interesting to see just how wide a range of skills and capabilities you get. Those who went into engineering with passion stand out because they are engaged in the field and have a real tangible sense of how things work. For lack of a better term, they were getting their hands dirty before they started university, and it shows. Others came to my desk with such low skills it was hard to conceive how they might succeed.

Doctors have to be in the same reality. We've all heard of doctors who misdiagnose people who, months or years later, through great personal effort, finally discover what was wrong and got it handled. What I have never seen is a root-cause analysis of this (well, there was a TV show years back that did some of this). That's what matters. Medicine (or engineering) will never improve if we don't have a mechanism through which we can go back and ensure some of these things happen with less frequency.

This is where I believe AI-based diagnosis will eventually become a useful tool. Not to replace doctors, but rather to present them with a range of opinions to explore. As with anything in computing, these systems will require accurate data, both medical and from the patient. And that's how we come full circle to the problems in medicine, one of which is having to work with patients who are uninformed or ill-informed from whom it is difficult to obtain accurate data for diagnostics. Not an easy problem.
ANSI-C (and to a lesser extent C99) is pretty much the only language which you can compile anywhere, forever. For this project portability is the #1 requirement.

If he used, say Rust, then the target system needs a rust compiler, and furthermore, the language is not even close to being as standardized a C is at the moment, i.e. who knows if in the future you will still be able to compile your program that you write on 2023's dialect?
The best black box, utterly proprietary, spyware Linux distro.
This is why I only use hydrogen torches at my dinner table.
I've been in the ML/data space for 20 years and went through the 2008 cycle early in my career. I'm not hiring at the moment but am always happy to review resumes and give career advice as part of networking so feel free to ping me.

Reaching out to managers at big cos won't get you much. They are getting a ton of twitter/etc candidates and have stricter hiring policies and rubrics to prevent nepotism and favoritism. If you can network and ask for referrals through your friends / professors that can work better. Or reaching out to early stage startup cofounders can work really well.

ML/AI is less frozen then some other areas so that is good. Most really competitive new PHDs will have either a couple of internships, strong academic contributions or previous engineering experience demonstrating strong coding ability.

You should also consider post docs or academic engineer postings. The grant cycle insulates these a bit from the economic cycle and they can be a good place to gather some experience while you ride out the cycle.

And definitely consider very early stage start ups. A startup that just raised and has 2 years of runway is probably one of the safest places to be at the moment as they are still focused on growth. A lot of great companies proved themselves as startups during the 2008 cycle and grew rapidly after. Networking can mean a lot more here as early stage founders often literally just hire their friends or people they get along with without a ton of process.
Multi-party signed review tooling for git, CI, and secure enclave infrastructure. Built all of it several times. This time I found a client to let me open source it all though, so this is the last time I hope!
Yes, and that's one reason why costs have ballooned so much, the need to subsidize people who didn't pay while they didn't have a condition and now do. The temporary plans aren't even necessary, if you can wait until the next regular enrollment period.

The ACA originally tried to hide that vulnerability by making insurance mandatory, then it appeared when that forcible mandate was repealed.

Edit to reply to the reply: Right, it's not insurance. Insurance is pooling risk. If you wait until the risk event has already happened, it's not insurance, it's just paying your own costs with extra steps.
People asking VPs about layoffs in public AMAs and getting answers to the effect of "it's our responsibility to make sure that we're right-sized for the upcoming year."
Also, you end up with very similar questions for non-corporate languages like Nim because you don't really know who created the software, what their motives might be, and whether the binaries you are receiving are really what the source code says it is.

Reproducible builds help, but once you are going down this path of verifying instead of trusting, then it doesn't really matter who built the software.
Decentralized standards for authn, authz and payments are a prerequisite.
When I use GNOME on Linux, I can launch my apps like this very quickly, boot back into Windows occasionally and it's a disaster.

I'm going to try some of the recommendations, but can't believe the start menu of all things can be broken this badly.
While I agree with you, it's possible to write this comment without the snarky, reddit-style tone. I think re-writing your comment to be less snarky and more patient would lend itself to a better website experience. Cheers.
I've been asking Dr. Sinclair for quite some time when this would be available to test on humans but I never get a reply.
Interesting publication by Sinclair back in 2021: Reprogramming to recover youthful epigenetic information and restore vision

> Using the eye as a model CNS tissue, here we show that ectopic expression of Oct4 (also known as Pou5f1), Sox2 and Klf4 genes (OSK) in mouse retinal ganglion cells restores youthful DNA methylation patterns and transcriptomes, promotes axon regeneration after injury, and reverses vision loss in a mouse model of glaucoma and in aged mice.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2975-4
Both these things can be true at the same time

OpenAI hired Kenyans because of limited labour law, no unions, no red tape, and the cheapest they can find.

Getting these jobs is good for Kenya