skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In our business an important factor is the personal/business/relationships network of the candidate we're talking with. You can see how this would be highly variable between 2 candidates. There is no "salary" or "salary range" in our case. We're not talking about hiring developers here but more Business Development types. It's hard to rank those people on a standard basis.
I recall that they said the same about IBM Watson, especially after it won jeopardy. Now, no one talks about it any longer.
You can have a non-lawyer represent a company or an individual in an arbitration or mediation if the parties agree.
I have a book recommendation, Lost Connections by Johann Hari.

I'd also highly recommend getting a few lonely people on your phone as "product testers". Make sure you get genuine feedback from them (very difficult if you're passionate about an idea), and try to discover what their hangups actually are about engaging with existing online communities, and figure out a way you'll be attempting to resolve some of those problems for your platform.
Apple made a tradeoff here:

- For most consumers, price is a big factor. Let's cut down on costs where we can, and pass them some of the savings.

- For a minority of consumers who are using these base models for IO-heavy workloads, they are on the wrong machine and we can't expect the majority to shell out the extra bucks in order to cater to the expectations of a minority who would be better off paying for a premium model, like a Macbook Pro or a Mac Pro.

Bottom line: You need optimized IO? Get the right tool for the job. Don't get the consumer model. If you pay for the consumer model, expect consumer targeted specs. Most consumers are not IO bottlenecked.
Indeed - and this is not new. Many years ago, I took a look to see what all the fuss was all about.

From start to end, he/his product seemed amateurish. From giving out a herokuapp.com subdomain in early press releases (which were republished on major sites), that was then no longer in use (allowing it to be taken over), through to the actual generated output.

When I looked at a letter it generated, it was laughable. The "chat bot" was simply asking questions, and capturing the (verbatim) response, and throwing it straight into the template. No sanity checking, no consistency, etc. There was absolutely no conversational ability in the "chat bot" - it was the equivalent of a "my first program" Hello World app, asking you your name, then greeting you by name.

It wasn't capable of chat, conversation, or comprehension. Anything you entered was blindly copied out into the resulting letter. Seems nothing has changed.
Copilot sends chunks of your code to the server for every suggestion (whether or not you accept it). That's the only way it could possibly work, since the model is running on a remote server.

https://thakkarparth007.github.io/copilot-explorer/posts/cop...
I think the general idea is that the biggest ion 2 angstrom tops, more likely 0.2 angstrom, whereas most proteins (where the ion is used) are 30-50 angstroms across (and note this is 3d, a 1 angstrom ion is 1000 times smaller than a 10 angstrom protein). And the whole HIV virus particle is ~1200 angstrom across.

So that ion is like a mouse compared to a skyscraper.
Doesn't it still have value though? Having to show the bottom means people near the bottom now know where they are.
Similar to what I use.

I use .net mvc with a razor-templating engine. With pjax.

It makes it super easy for me to maintain all my UX in server-rendered HTML templates. I get a clean SPA with super high development efficiency with MINIMAL javascript.
That would only work in... Monte Carlo
I overall agree with you, but a much bigger counterexample would be the widespread availability of painkillers
> a conglomerate doing it's damnedest to pay as little as possible

Netflix pays some of the highest compensation in the industry, and all cash at that.
Hackers can trick Wi-Fi devices into draining their own batteries
> If that happens you’re looking at a 3,000 Euro repair bill if you can find someone with the parts capable of replacing them. Hasselblad will still repair them but it’s a pain to get the scanner to them and they charge almost twice as much as third part service shops. .... I went through several weeks of debugging to eventually conclude the port or main board was bad and was this not prepared to drop 5,000 Euros on it

So I don't know the author's own personal financial situation, but for me given the options 'E5000 plus weeks of effort and uncertain results' or 'E8000 and some legwork to find someone to do the work' or 'E11000 and some annoyances to have the manufacturer do it' I don't think I would have made the same choice.
Does he do it on the HN forum?
I worked there and I can say that this is not accurate at all. It is very much a blame culture. I've seen people fired for less severe incidents. Beyond the core technology of the Pillar engine, the place is not comparable to a modern tech company in almost any way.
Lessig was going to step down and put his Vice President in power, who would explicitly be a Democrat.

That's not going to get broad appeal even if the whole effort was marketed correctly.

And I'm not talking about just president, but congress as well. Get as many people as possible into as many offices as possible with this goal.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00269
S’all Good, man! /s
At 25% efficiency (on the high side), 1000kCal is about 1050kJ, which is just shy of 300W. Most adults can't sustain 300W for an hour. In addition, reasonable riding conditions (flat, low to moderate winds) will get you moving faster than 20mph at 300W. Most adults are definitely not burning 1000kcal riding a bike for an hour and even fewer are doing that rate of calorie burn for longer than an hour. I regularly have >1000kcal rides, but I have yet to hit 1000kcal for a single hour at my highest intensity. I can do close to 300W for 20 minutes after which time the power drops off rapidly. Larger cyclists that are trained can absolutely sustain 300W for an hour, but won't do this without a significant training effort.

I don't mean to imply that you won't burn a lot of calories cycling, quite the opposite, I think it is one of the easiest and gentlest ways to do so. You are however overstating what most non-elite cyclists can regularly accomplish in terms of calorie burn per hour.

Source: I have averaged 450hrs/yr for last 3 years and closely monitor my data.
Hello fellow business owner - your comment suggests you have some experience outside of W2 employment. Thanks for your comment.
He'll choose to when he's good and ready. He was amazing in Uncut Gems. What's worse, to be in a position to make shitty movies because you want to, because they're made for you and your buds? Or to have to appear in someone else's shitty movies because you're on the Hollywood work treadmill and can't support your lavish lifestyle without taking whatever work you can get?
And there were reasonable arguments on both sides. And there were 2 dissents and 1 concurrence filed, so even within the Court, there were different interpretations, even among Justices who agreed (on each side).
In general, Permit allows you to switch over from an existing solution pretty easily. We had a company completely migrate their RBAC solution to using Permit with one dev over the course of less than two weeks. If you need any help in doing that, we’d be happy to assist (https://bit.ly/permit-slack).

Check out this example:
https://youtu.be/-W-79h7FJLQ
> Maybe by parsing through all related meeting transcripts as well?

Those and design docs. It can also reason over code somewhat; it may be possible for the model to intuit design constraints from code.
While their food ingredients don’t seem as good as they used to be, the chips and salsa are still just as addictive. I can’t go there without eating an entire order by myself in addition to my vegetarian burrito bowl. It turns a relatively low calorie meal into a high calorie affair.
I agree. Usually it is a a trade-off between cold starts and the costs of `n` warm functions.
I will never stop marveling at the way Chekhov can turn an inner life inside out in one to three pages. One of the jewels of Russian literature.

One of the most surprising things about Chekhov is how his writing is some ways beyond ideology, politics or convictions —- he tries to present people as they are, and he implies that people behave according to incentives and drives instead of their purported beliefs.
I avoid NY in addition. I need to take out like 6 kinds of extra insurance (family leave insurance)?? Just not worth it. I’ll stick to the Midwest and lower east coast please!
That can depend on company size and the number of positions. Many "anonymous" data points aren't really that anonymous at smaller companies or with a smaller number of specific roles.
I don't know if we have a hard rule or not, but HR has cautioned us against bringing in talent from CA multiple times over the years. Right now, our employees all reside central or eastern. I have a feeling we will not hire anyone living west of ATX for a long time.

Beyond the bureaucracy issues, keeping to ~2 timezones is turning into a strategic advantage at our scale. If we had to do mountain & pacific as well, things would get much more complicated.
Nowadays it's extra-legal billionaire vigilantes with magical powers that save the world. Did we go wrong somewhere?
Can You Flirt Better Than an AI?
Then you should go get one.

Personally, I really like Envy Apples but I don't ban the other varieties, do I?
The funny thing is that doctors would be the canonical examples for most people. Yet, there is no license that stops a pediatrician from performing brain surgery. What stops the pediatrician from performing brain surgery is that no hospital would hire them as a brain surgeon, no insurance would insure their brain surgery and if something goes wrong they'd likely face a lawsuit they couldn't win. Why is the system able to judge the difference between a pediatrician and a brain surgeon but we need licensing to distinguish between doctor and non-doctor?
If there are extensive test cases with static dataset, this may help with query modifications (optimize query, fine-tune, etc.) Of course, this may not feasible for new queries as you can't have test script until the query is ready.
When I was looking to switch jobs in a state with salary posting requirements last year, I found the vast majority of the ranges to be perfectly reasonable and having something around a $50k spread. The law also allowed me to see that the ceiling my current company offered for my SRE position was the floor at many other places. There's always going to be a few wild ranges but overall I found the salary posting requirement to be a huge benefit in my job search.
So you're saying your comment is irrelevant to the example given in the article.
Cutting hair is one thing. But hairdressers also handle things like, for example, chemical relaxation of hair, which can be seriously dangerous in the wrong hands. I don't know where the answer lies for regulation. But it seems to be there for at least some reason.
This is very predictable, and may be based in fact. I've started a company, hired a CEO, went to work as a developer before If we had to base our advertised pay ranges on what our people were actually being paid, the range be very wide.
janet, sqlite, and htmx.
Indeed! The above cursive is a Czechoslovakian style from 1990s (I think it hasn't changed much since then), and most European countries have quite similar cursive. In the United States the cursive is actually similar also, but a few letters are different, notably: z, r, t and most uppercase letters. My kids learn it at public schools here in the U.S., but it is secondary after print style and assignments are not accepted in cursive... (I am sure it varies from school to school though.)
Man, I miss their original queso so much. I loved it! But then they caved to all those who wanted "white queso that tastes like every other white queso". I still get the new one, I still think it's marginally better than somewehere like Moe's but it ain't as good as the original!
Is this really that surprising?

When my team is hiring software engineers, we're almost never looking for a specific level of engineer to fill some sort of specifically-defined role. We're just looking for smart people at every level. We'll hire new college grads and we'll hire senior engineers with 20 years experience. We decide what level to place someone at based on the interview and background, then make them a corresponding offer. While we obviously would like to have a balance of senior and junior people, we're not going to say "OK this time we're specifically looking for a level 4 SWE, no more, no less."

It seems like the law was designed with the assumption that companies always know in advance exactly what the person will do and exactly what quality of work will be expected. That's not realistic on software, though, where the work is constantly changing, individual projects are maybe a few months and then it's hard to predict what people will be working on beyond that. You just need to find the best people you can, at a reasonable balance of levels.

Maybe the answer is that companies should be posting one job req for each level that they're willing to hire at? But what if you only have one headcount to fill, and you would really like to fill it with a rockstar senior engineer but you know more realistically it's probably going to be a promising junior? I suppose you can post the several different levels anyway and then take them all down once you've hired someone? But then will Yahoo write an article saying you're doing this to work around the law and violating it in spirit?

(Disclaimer: I'm not a hiring manager, I'm just an engineer who interviews a lot of people. But I never understood how this law was supposed to apply to our industry.)
https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/kosyg
Just checked out your blog, pretty cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah. Alex is so under-appreciated in the early-modern history of AI. This definitely works better than that did though.
> there are cyclical natural catastrophes

That sounds very made up.
So you are saying China started WW3 by attacking Taiwan?
Building an MVP right now. Digital Ocean but may switch to Linode. LAMP. Wordpress for web and the API. Delphi for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux clients. Stable Diffusion.
Eros in June 2028 looks pretty close to earth.
I have seen some really fascinating recursive approaches to GTP where formal logic and flow are used to conditionally re-prompt GTP to keep refining the answer. I think there will be an incredible power in combining the “intuitive” abilities of GTP with more traditional analytical AI approaches.
Interesting thing I learned during the pandemic: There are actually countries where more people live alone than in the United States. In particular, in Sweden, the vast majority of all unattached adults, even young ones, live alone, without roommates. So, I have to push back against the idea that a permanent housing shortage forcing people into multi-person living arrangements is the natural default.
1. Spend less than you earn.
2. Learn about investing and develop an investing mindset. Investing can mean stock, but also a personal skill like cooking or a small business, a thing you can rent out, whatever.
3. Repeat.

My friends live paycheck-to-paycheck and I got $300k stashed in cash and a mix of investments. I'm not living for the money, but this world is full of costly stuff you definitely do not need - and it really surprises me what people are spending money on.
Dave Ramsey.

Listen to his podcast episodes. It’s a quick way to get a feel for his advice and to hear how real people who call in benefit from it. Go back to 2020 or so before his co-hosts started taking more airtime.

He catches a lot of flak because the debt snowball that he advocates is mathematically inefficient (folks prefer to pay debts with the highest interest rates off first). Also his political views. Look past those things - there is so much valuable advice.
Yeah weirdly I also think that's a good feature to be missing. If we had this we'd definitely see more comments and engagement, but I don't think it would be better. Getting an instant audio-visual notification (i.e. you keep the tab open, see a "(1)" appended to the title of the tab and you hear a little *ping!*) during more heated discussions would diminish the "cooldown" period where you have a couple of minutes to step back and think "do I really need to reply...?" We have enough of this kind of discussion already, if I'm honest I'm no stranger to them :)
Forcing SIMD instructions seems like a pretty reasonable, but specialized use-case that would warrant using ASM. But from what I understand, you'd still be using a compiler for whatever higher-level language (say, C/C++) for most of the work and ASM for the really performance sensitive portions of the code (or when trying to force the usage of some CPU extension). My interpretation of GP was that they exclusively write in ASM, though that may not have been correct.
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I have a hard time believing IDEO or the like couldn't come up with a battery-powered recoil mechanism to retrofit to existing guns. At least believable enough that other actors on set would respond to it, with the finer details embellished in post. I also wonder if at least one high-profile Hollywood actor would be willing to front the funds for the development of such a device right now, especially if it helped get him off the hook for the current hot water he's in (which in my mind, it should).
In ours, it is chi-pot-el.
Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff
It hasn't been posted publicly but staff recieved an email from the CEO this morning announcing that 8% of staff have been cut in a "restructuring". This is especially surprising because staff have repeatedly been told that the company has strong cash reserves and is on a trajectory to profitability, even with market headwinds. No word on the breakdown by department or role.
It's not about penalizing people residing in certain states. It's about not taking on additional regulatory burden. In a free country this is a choice we're allowed to make and we're willing to accept the trade off.
> There will be fewer barriers to entry and greater understanding of all that has come before, Ultimately, there will be less noise on the internet.

Given the amount of noise from people churning out low quality content today, I find this unlikely.
Amazing. Sometimes the Internet disappoints, but sometimes the Internet is fricking awesome. Well done.
> The range in the ad just means that a lot of more senior engineers will be wasting their time applying for the role.

When I go through candidates for an open position, I find very little correlation between experience and salary demands. Propensity for audacity seems to have more to do with it.
Interesting range of responses here! I'm a 40-something PHP developer, and maybe one of the few ladies here! Since I'm lucky enough to be a lady, I'm also lucky enough to be more likely to suffer autoimmune diseases. In 2021, after the extreme stresses of you-know-what and resultant depression, and some heartbreaking personal losses, I noticed that my sore arms and hands had become something more and was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. I won't go into exactly how miserable this disease is except to say sometimes I wish I was dead. Since I have also developed a second autoimmune disease. 'Cuz usually if you have one, you'll get more. Collect them all!

My desperate quest to regain wellness (remission) has led me down all sorts of alt-health avenues. So far my greatest relief comes from the use of psychedelics (for inner work), Kratom (for pain), qigong (for exercise and release), breathwork (to repair my cells & ANS), and fasting (I achieved my best remission yet after a 7-day fast). Yeah, cuckoo. As a retired hospital RN, I am disillusioned enough with the state of medical care in the USA that I basically refuse to go. I could go on and on about what a shame this is. I have tried Prednisone (a typical first line of treatment) and trust me that medicine is hell. My sympathy to anyone who must be on that drug for life.

Over time it has become clear why I am sick. Prior to 2021 I considered myself healthy. I had great diet (vegetarian, organic) and earth-bound lifestyle. I was bit of an extreme athlete, having covered thousands of miles solo backpacking Death Valley, the High Sierra, and the Colorado Plateau. I spent most my time outdoors in the fresh air. Yet, because of childhood trauma I was broken inside, and I indulged in self-hatred. Until recently I was in denial about all that. I suffered strange symptoms for years and ignored them. Exiting denial and re-parenting myself, showing myself compassion, has been very helpful.

If I can help anyone who is feeling well, it'd be to say cherish your health and give love -- not advice -- to the sick. To the sick, I'd say, may you be happy, healthy, and free from suffering
python -m http.server 9000

And Bootstrap, if I'm feeling generous.

When you're trying to validate a product, the last thing you should be spending your time on is fiddling with anything more complicated than this.
They should have just required companies to post the median pay for the posted position along with std dev. That would provide actually useful information in a standard format that everyone can reasonably interpret (or figure out how to interpret without too much trouble).
They do, they're called blank guns or signal guns.
So China is the Austro-Hungarian Empire in this scenario, initiating WWI or Axis Powers NAZI Germany and imperial Japan?
OpenAI stopping media bots with watermarking
We built the technology in house and don’t rely on chatgpt, but GPT alone, and services offer it in a similar way algolia or elastic offer search for instance, it keeps data private.
If your offers aren't competitive for CA candidates, then it makes sense not to waste time recruiting them. Another way to accomplish this would be to post your salary ranges. Candidates who don't find it competitive won't apply at all. You may find some candidates in California who do find it competitive (perhaps outside the major metro areas). And you might avoid interviewing candidates from other regions who would never have accepted your offer.
Pretty cool - wonder how it compares to Postgrest (https://postgrest.org/).

Generally been a fan of these sorts of models - SQL data is very malleable - and treating the tables as movable from the start really helps move faster as a developer - database migrations become easier as you don't need to do a lot of work with API.

I can see how this would cause problems if you always used this in production after finding a fit for the data model - but for rapid prototyping and development - big fan.
Serious question: If someone is smart and capable enough to work on tangible things like AI systems or self-driving cars, why should they choose the NYSE outside of pure monetary reasons or affinity for a “modern” tech stack?
He gets a lot of flack because he is unhinged, waving guns around in the office and checking on his employees sexual relationships.
Just php and mariadb. Nothing too facy.
What's your basis for this claim?
"Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Jokes aside, do be careful. A prolonged interaction with LLM agents had resulted in at least one Googler being terminated on their jobs.

On the other hand, I would not be surprised, if they’ll make millions now, suing Google citing the job hazards exposure. And that ChatGPT reasoning abilities and empathic skills are maybe already above the median human. As a result, in a median case, such interactions might result in an effect similar to an interaction with a good teacher.

Still, none of this is very well tested.