skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't pigeon hole yourself into only skills or techniques too niche, but also make sure you learn skills unique to you within the organization. Essentially make yourself irreplaceable but also ensure you stay marketable.

Beyond that always keep looking at what's out there and network, network, network.

Starting out is hard, but after you put a bit of time in your resume will begin to speak for itself. For what your resume can't do for you that is what your contacts within desired companies are for.

Also, contributing to open source projects is great material for the resume!
> Almost no one who's putting googly eyes on a boulder is going to insist in all seriousness that Bouldy is capable of intelligent thought, or that it has rights that can be violated.

You dare discriminate against my pet rock?! We can't be friends!
Based on overall headcount, yes, but looking at only corporate headcount the denominator is much bigger. This article was a bit vague and said “stores and human resources divisions.”
By spring there will be a lot of changes. The budgets will get realigned and stuff. So best advice would be to stop worrying and keep applying as generic as that advice sounds. Oh and if you are on it nuke /cscareerquestions
You maintain them because theyre made to be maintained.

It's pretty hard to wear out silicon. That's why the batteries are glued in and they're made out of glass. To encourage them to artificially wear them out.
I imagine this memo reading like that one in Snow Crash about the inter-office toilet paper sharing system, and employees dutifully reading the memo for exactly X number of minutes to ensure their computer's tracking software notes that they've read the article for the appropriate amount of time.
This is true, but LastPass proved that by the time the worst case occurs it's already too late. A security breach means, at minimum, redoing all your passwords, and these sites are a very compelling target.

OTOH I wouldn't want to self-host because I know I'm not going to spend the same amount of time and effort a full security staff would, even if my self-hosted box would make a much less attractive target.

It's quite a pickle.
It is targeting Apple customers, who use the ecosystem.
Me, neither. The other one I see on Google is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search, and that doesn't exist either.
Terrible arguments.

Golang and Android Studio are both open source, and you could compile them yourself. Telemetry can be turned off in Android Studio, and you can use stuff like flatpaks to isolate the software from your system, and completely turn off networking permissions if you don't trust the settings.
There are so many smaller firms struggling to find talent!

Message hiring managers and recruiters on LinkedIn that say "hiring" in their bio. This should get the ball rolling a little bit faster.

Good luck and cheers!
The idea that it's modelling cognition at all is wishful thinking. We know what it's doing: predicting the next token given a certain amount of context. There's no reason to assume that it's doing more than that.

Not everyone anticipated that 'predict the next token' would be a good enough method to mimic as much communication as it can, but ML is full of such surprises. With sufficient data, an awful lot of things can be solved in other ways than we used to. We used to think that only birds could fly, but that doesn't make a helicopter a bird, it makes it another way to solve a problem.
And still not even A4
>3. Siri tries (and frequently fails) to identify me and my wife by our voice, and then won't do things (like turn off the music, find our iPhone, etc.) because she can't figure out who we are.

I've never had this issue in my household. Have you tried re-training it?
There is already a lot of alarm over PFAS and plastics. It's likely to be the lead paint or asbestos of our generation.
Will echo this. Stashing away for a rainy day is wise in any industry and for everyone. Live below your means and save away.
Re: cloud thing, https://www.balena.io/ ?
Only real one is to adjust your expectations. That does not mean getting _any_ job, but do not sneer on the offers from companies tier below what you'd consider before or lower compensation than what tiktok programmers brag about.
8.5”x11” is a standard size for the US and Canada, but not for the rest of the world. Which leads to the eternal problems for any NGOs or contractors working for the US government overseas who have to source Letter size for US gov partners and A4 for local partners!
Didn't headline just state the fact objectively, and any negative implication comes from the mind of the reader? If not, how could the headline be less editorialized (in order to reduce the negative implication)?
I find myself primarily working in the apache arrow domain these days, so I've done more work with the Apache Flight RPC than anything else (https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Flight.html). I'll make sure to keep an eye on the capn'n proto project though. Seems well thought out and very interesting.
> We experience violence first hand. I don't think violent text is going to affect anyone the way you think it is.

I'll be glad when this kind of "suck it up buttercup" bullshit is gone from our world.

Yeah, violence hardens people. Most often to the point where they're one light tap away from shattering. PTSD is a real thing, and just because folks in Africa aren't being diagnosed with it doesn't mean witnesses to this violence don't have it.

This kind of attitude - that since we've seen some shit we're immune to it all - is just a badly misplaced sense of pride.

And that misplaced pride just hurts people.
The human body and immune system is pretty good at, on average, keeping us living long enough to produce offspring and a bit after.

If you want any more than that, you should do what you can to help it along, including avoiding known harmful substances where you can.
UK could make posting videos of crossing the Channel in 'positive light' illegal
It's not that it targets 'non-citizens', it's that the amendment targets content which is obviously intended for people outside of the UK. So unless that content is hosted in the UK this amendment has no effective value whatsoever.

This is political hand-waving, really. Every time you see something proposed for a very narrow and specific issue you can be sure that whoever is putting it forward is going for the purpose of political games.

The MP I see named in the excerpt used to be "Minister for Children" so she may want to be seen as making sure people "think of the children" because "it's incredibly important, and I'm an expert" kind of angle. It may get her a few minutes of national TV time.
Hmmm... back in the day there were IBM PL/I, Microsoft BASIC, Borland's Turbo Pascal, ...

Post 1990 or so the FSF came out with gcc, gcl, etc. Since then there are free languages like Python and PHP. However, many open source projects are "corporate dominated" for better or worse. LLVM would not be the quality framework it is if Apple hadn't invested in it. Linux got SMP scalability thanks to IBM. No Google, No V8, No node.js. A language like Nim might have no corporate sponsor now but if it catches on it may very well get one.
10k here, 20k there, next thing we're talking real numbers.
Matter is certainly taking its time coming into existence!
"Safety" is pretty hot in the LLM world these days. Quite a position to be in, to be the one to define safety. It's gonna be a weird decade.
No, that's transformative because you painted it. Transforming it into data bits, on its own, isn't considered transformative from a fair use perspective.
There is a lot of nuance missing here - virtual frame pointers can be reproduced by debug info, but it requires your tools understanding debug info. So it's not "all or nothing".

You can turn them off and enable separate debug info, at a cost of tools having to understand the debug info.

Compilers produce good enough virtual frame pointers to do unwinding/exceptions, and debugging. They are not perfect however, and people throw rocks more than they fix things, as usual.

(IE producing better info for inline assembly)
Neither. The assumption is that, due to various reasons, the world in need of eating will shrink next year (if not later this year). As software requires a not insignificant amount of time to develop, work intended to eat next year is in development now, which means less work to go around compared to last year.

It is quite possible that these businesses are wrong about the future. They have been before. But as predicting the future is impossible, one has to make an educated guess and live with it.
A photo deduplication tool. For some reason I always resort to writing small, scenario-specific python scripts. A couple of reasons I can recall:

- 3 or more input directories which have specific roles like "main archive, prioritize", "temp folder, remove from here first"

- multiple levels of equivalence test, including file name, exif tags, checksum, perhaps perceptual hash (e.g. for flagging downscaled images to be deleted)
Yes, they do, and it has nothing to do with purposeless decoration or pretending to be a leet haxor as others implied.

To even moderately experienced developers, a UI is a tool we use to interact with an application.

To everyone else, the UI is the application.

We developers need to develop an novice-level understanding of many things we touch but don't specialize in... Perhaps the domain we're developing software for, or networking, or database work. We also tend to get the classic novice overconfidence in those topics because we've never needed to know as much as the experts and therefore have never encountered problems we weren't qualified to solve... or so we think. UI design is one of those things.

I'm an art school educated UI designer, have done significant work in serious graphic design, and worked for a decade as a full-time back-end web developer for a reputable organization. The number of developers that have tried to explain UI design to me, even knowing my background, is astonishing. I'm male, but it looks exactly like mansplaining by my estimation.

UI design is a profession totally separate from software development and graphic design because making a good UI is a totally different process than either of those things– it's more akin to industrial design. Most developers don't understand its importance, and vastly overestimate their ability to create and evaluate interfaces themselves. I contribute code to open source projects all the time... but trying to contribute design work is a miserable experience. This is the reason independent open source alternatives will remain alternatives and never become standards.

I take supporting evidence from IDE market shares. All of the top results are either commercial software or mostly controlled by companies that have staff UI designers. The one org that controls a top contender that didn't seem to employ a dedicated UI designer is Eclipse, which is famous for its usability... Just not in a good way.
(Full disclosure: I work at https://passage.id)

WebAuthn is the short name for the "FIDO Alliance Web Authentication Protocol".

"Passkey" is the trade name (that Apple tries to own) for the "stuff" that results from using the WebAuthn protocol. At it's root, a passkey is really the private key portion of that "stuff" that is kept. So yes, in practice, a passkey is the result of a WebAuthn implementation.

MS, Apple, and Google don't implement WebAuthn. Companies like mine do. Each website out there that wants to use passkeys needs to employ WebAuthn, whether via build or buy. What the "Big Three" do is leverage their OS's and platforms to enable the storage and migration of passkeys within their eco-system. WebAuthn is implemented in their browsers, and they enable the use of passkeys (which websites make happen via implementing WebAuthn).

One thing to note is that the Big Three also make a small adjustment to the WebAuthn protocol to allow passkeys to shared inside their cloud infrastructure. This every so slightly reduces the security of passkeys (which start out as very, very many orders of magnitude more secure than passwords).

You can read about Passkeys here: https://passage.id/post/a-look-at-passkeys

More on WebAuthn: https://passage.id/post/what-is-webauth
Yeah. Companies used to grant you leave or organize otherwise rather than a straight layoff.
Lots of them didn't. Under 5 mortality is down ~79% since my parents were born (using US figures. Down 92% where I live).
Consider how much space all the thrown out Apple products take up in landfills.
Why didn't they ask the "AI" itself to filter the results? Isn't AI going to offer medical and legal advice soon? How will it do such things when it can't tell what is child abuse? Rhetorical question, at least for me.
It's also about what is "success" at different scaling. People can enjoy different levels of success at different stages and not always chase the same big targets. I remember seeing an interview with a band that had some major hits in the 80s (the Fixx) whose members effectively have day jobs now, but they still successfully tour smaller clubs every year or other year, and do things at a scale they can manage, still make money at, and thoroughly enjoy.

They get to be what they enjoy, and make a living at. The fact that they arent playing arenas/on MTVs equivalent/etc is orthogonal to that.
The Wikipedia page (linked) is a good introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

My take

Kinder: an updated Gopher

Snarkier: a technical solution to a social problem
Worth noting that Google has gone to extra effort here to make YouTube bad on AppleTV; their original first-party AppleTV app was actually significantly better.
yes, the argument goes that because html can be too complicated gemini was designed to actively prevent and limit these complications. Of course html can be used in a simple gemini- or gopherlike way as well. But some purists want nothing to do with the complexities, distractions from and corruption of pure textual information.
It's definitely not common knowledge- especially for people who don't use TikTok and only became aware of it in the last 2-3 years.

And I actually think it benefits the Chinese government for this revisionist history of the app to be the story that "wins" - because it portrays China as this mysterious force with previously unknown insight, power, and plans. When in reality the bones of TikTok came directly out of the same place as most new social apps do.

If you look at the Wikipedia article for Musical.ly - it goes through great effort to talk about how it was a Chinese company that happened to have a "Santa Monica office" but if you look at the Crunchbase profile for Musical.ly - the story is different. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/musical-ly/company_f...

The companies that participated in those funding rounds are not blue chip VCs and do have foreign ties - but they are specifically focused on investing in US startups.

I would love to see a journalist at The Verge or somewhere that writes about tech in the same way tackle this topic. I think it's a missing piece in a lot of the discourse around TikTok.
Contexts is the app that I was looking for, and may be for you as well!

https://contexts.co
> In summary, this is just another anti renewables "I know better than all the experts" blog post.

The author of the post is Russell Schussler. I believe this is him, and that he knows what he is talking about:

"Russell Schussler works as a Planning Vice President, System at Georgia Electric Membership Corporation"

Previous Work Experience: SERC Reliability, Engineering Committee; North American Electric Reliability, Planning Committee.

Education: bachelor's degree, Ohio State University, Columbus; master's degree, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

[0] https://www.datanyze.com/people/Russell-Schussler/415612919
The Rise of the Millionaire LinkedIn Influencer
> The joke is perhaps on everyone else, as many of the same (influencers) getting ripped apart on Reddit have figured out a relatively easy way to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars by spouting inspirational, if often conventional, wisdom. These influencers...say the platform has become a profit machine, the sort of business-friendly space where a strong presence can directly lead to speaking gigs, brand deals, sales leads, career coaching opportunities, and more.
Flawed game ownership model.

I own a 2013 MBP. I reached the limit of dual booting a while ago, but still wanted to play new games without buying a new computer.

I subscribed to PlayStation Now, and got to play Spider-man for $12 per month and the cost of a controller. I knew going in that, like Netflix, I didn’t own the content and it might disappear.

I had a similar experience with Amazon’s service, where I played Watchdogs Legion for a few weeks. I used the PS4 controller.

I’ve been subscribed to Nvidia GeForce for sometime. I pay $4 per month (yay for legacy pricing) to have a high end machine for my casual gaming. My game selection is limited, but I own what I play. If I choose to build/buy a gaming PC, I’ll have games.

Stadia was flawed because I had to buy a new controller that was locked to Stadia, but games that are locked to Stadia, and subscribe to Stadia. That’s a lot of commitment just to _try_ a service. The idea of locking my game purchases to a single service was never going to fly for me.

Stadia could have been more successful if they adopted the models of Nvidia or Amazon, and just rented a machine in the cloud. The special controller can help decrease latency, but isn’t required.
iOS, Fuchsia, Android and ChromeOS show what happens if a company actually cares to push such an OS no matter what hardcore old timers think about C and C++ alternatives.

Yes they are still kind of there, for very niche tasks, and that is about it.
I haven’t moved down, but boy do I miss working in retail. No stress. My evenings are my own. If my boss sucks, I can quit and go across the street for a new job. Part time is an option. Lots of fun people. Work with my hands. Some minor exercise. Not sitting all day getting rsi inevitably one day

Doesn’t pay enough to retire though. Can’t even afford the dentist on that income
You're misinformed. clang also has a custom parser. Both gcc and clang have great support for new standards, though as those standards are evolving some features aren't there yet (but none of the missing features have anything to do with parsing difficulties). You can find lots of detail on feature coverage at https://gcc.gnu.org .
Professor Kees de Lange on the nitrogen problem
I'm curious - what's the benefit in this example over accepting it on the first interaction, if that's what you desire?
Gemini is problematic for me because i love the idea of a simpler web, but it doesn't solve any of its core goals around avoiding effects of advertisement while also being less accessible. There's nothing stopping someone from doing any of the dark pattern stuff in gemini the creator is upset about with the modern web. And there's nothing stopping someone from avoiding all of it with http. It doesn't really serve a good purpose as an application layer protocol.

See also a longer form writeup of similar issues: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/gemini-is-solutionism-at-its-worst...
I used to, it ran pretty great until Proton stopped working. If you want a consistent/smooth gaming experience, MacOS is no longer the place to get it - I'd recommend dual-booting Linux on the Radeon machine and using Proton that way. You'd get a lot more games to choose from and more dependable performance.

Trying to fanangle with VMs and Crossover is a waste of your time when Proton exists, unfortunately.
Think "hipster markdown delivery protocol with artificial constraints". A screenshot would vary by the Gemini browser being used.
Tractrix and Truck Tricks
The gatekeepers are exclusively capitalist companies.

You realize one of the goals of capitalism is to replace all public services with private, for-profit ones?
In what way does it forbid personalization? Is it because the client enforces styling?

I got around that in my (deactivated) site with some ascii art and unicode glyphs.

Most capsules are quite distinct with regards to these elements.
The story is alright. The way they drew the character, definitely not alright. And you know the lovely associations racists make between black people and spears.

Could have been a cute animation about a kid biting off more than they could chew. And a hapless lion and a bird that takes not shit. It's a shame they had to shove the nastiness in there.
Do you think that person speaks for all Kenyans? Clearly $2 an hour is too little but people are exploitable when they need money.
> If it's the former, I'd love to know why the frame stack version of the program would run more slowly.

I believe it's the former and my understanding is that the stack frame version uses a register (RBP on x86-64) to keep track of the (start?) of the stack frame, which presumably helps in debugging / getting stack traces and profiling performance.

However, when not keeping track of the stack frame, the compiler can use the RBP register for storing other values, which means that the compiler has one more register it can use to avoid loading/storing values in memory (accessing memory is much slower than accessing registers).

Also, when not keeping track of the stack frame, I believe there is less of a need to store/restore the value of RBP at the beginning/end of functions, which also reduces code size and number of instructions executed, I think.

As far as I understand, those are the reasons for the slowdown.
I was surprised to note that at least in IT and comparing to e.g. the UK, that last figure is closer to 70% nowadays.

Go to southern EU and you'll see numbers which are either very familiar or... actually lower.

Weird times. I wonder when will this growth in salaries stabilise?
I feel like I'm in the same boat as you. I'd love to chat and exchange notes or just discuss challenges. My email is in my bio. Would love to hear from you if you're open to it. It's hard to meet agency owners who run small/solo agencies.
fyi - i'm based in the bay area.
If you're not a wage specialist and my guess is as good as yours, why were you so quick to dismiss someone who actually lives in the country you're opining on?
Yep. Every time I have to renew my Australian passport I have to buy a ream of A4 paper. Every time I forget where last time's ream was stored. I suspect someday I'll find thousands of sheets somewhere lost in my basement.
I think you said it yourself - case or no case.
Look at all the people who use cases on their phones, theres an entire ecosystem for it that never existed for startacs. I think its evolved over time but it seems like the majority of people have some sort of case on their phones.

Same for portable game systems like the Gameboy brick we all used naked vs all the cases on the switch, etc.
There are a number of mmWave occupancy sensors that are more than capable of this. The biggest issue is the delay introduced in most smart home contexts by Zigbee and the hubs. Matter/Thread should help here.

Existing options: https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-mmwave-human-presenc...

The Aqara FP2 should be out in Q2 with Matter support and be a nice upgrade. It can segment a room into multiple spaces and detect 5 people.
When I mouse over "Servers by Country" there is a big section that says "Private". What does that mean in this context? Private RFC1918 address space? If so, how did they get the stats? Or are stats optionally anonymized?
They’re laying people off because it’s cool to lay people off. Layoffs are social, not economical.

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-la...
Ask HN: I was given a powerful PC. Can I make money with it?
My work gave me a very powerful computer - MacBook Pro M1 fully decked out. Is there any way I can use it to passively (and legally) make some money?

I'm not so creative, so making a YouTube channel where I appear / writing blog posts manually, etc is not my cup of tea.